[DTV]

I’ve been thinking more about how this merged service will work (yes, I AM that sad!) once it is properly up and running in April. I’m wondering in particular about the UK-specific bits during World’s ad breaks. One would assume that the presenter would just carry on with the UK news - but I wonder instead if we might see those bits done by a second presenter, up at the balcony? (Thinking a la Sky News circa 2008/latter-day Victoria Derbyshire show). If there is going to be someone there for UK breaking news anyway, might it make sense for them to do any UK headlines?

This is somewhat similar to how I envisaged a possible 'UK news' segment - have the duty presenter/reporter for the UK opt do an hourly segment rounding up the main stories in the UK that aren't really worthy of getting into the main body of the bulletin. I guess, as you say, there's an argument for having them do UK in Brief segments during the world breaks as it would appear somewhat cleaner than the main presenter pausing while World opt in and out.

Don't worry, though, you're far from the only member attempting to work out how you could make it work. I've kept coming back to a back-of-an-envelope idea of 'how I'd do it', this is what I've go at the minute for a standard shared hour...


...though, of course, you could spice it up with different focuses/segments in different hours, I feel this (which is very much based on the old News channel and late-2000s World News Today structures) is a good basic model. In terms of UK news, I think you can justifiably get one or two stories into the main news body of the bulletin, with extra stories during world breaks and with less world-relevant stories covered in a dedicated UK News segment.