[Charles]

Baffles me they treat viewers who choose to watch a British based international news channel (so not exactly the ITVBe fanbase) as pretty ignorant when it comes to British terminology.  I doubt CNN ever pandered to their international audiences in such a manner.

I don't watch either enough to know but do France 24 or DW explain certain terms or geography of their respective countries of origin to international viewers like the BBC have in the past week or so? Before last week from time to time packages on BBC WN that are of international significance that make mention of the Old Bailey but neither the presenter nor correspondent ever explained what it is. We could just assume it was some sort of court given the context. It seems too excessive what the BBC have been doing and treats World viewers as if we're unable to figure it out or look it up.

Of course, it's worth pointing out that France and Germany have publically-owned domestic news channels in addition to the international-oriented ones that you mentioned, whereas that's no longer the case with the UK and the BBC. France 24 started out with the intent that it would be truly global in scope like BBC World or RFI with largely the same content concurrently on the French, English, and Arabic channels. I'd say that they've strayed from this in recent years with the French channel having a tendency to cover domestic French issues more than the English channel, and you'll see a reporter package from a national France 2 bulletin slipped in from time to time. The English channel will still do French news more in-depth than what you'd see anywhere else and will add context for an international anglophone audience, though the language difference is a natural editorial barrier. With that said, France 24 is still far more global than the domestic-focused franceinfo. You'll also see far less US news on any of the French channels than you will see on the BBC.