[Frances]

Isn't that breakfast time in some parts of Asia? Indonesia and Singapore, for example? Either way it would be weird for a broadcast of "NewsNIGHT" to be broadcast on an international feed at what could literally be any time if the day. Similar even for your proposed target audience in Europe - are we going to start calling it "News at 10 at 11 or 12 or 1 depending on where you are"?

Plus, surely any simulcasts of network programmes on World would require changes to how both operate. None of the network bulletins are run to World's 26' standard for news programmes, nor do they feature opt-points for adverts - the Ten only sometimes even includes a half-way coming up sequence. You'd have to either restructure the bulletins or have World drop ad breaks - neither of which are great ideas.

At a push you could have them rebroadcast in back half-hours on tape delay and edited down (as Newsnight was until 1997), but even then is it worth the effort to have a, probably at best, 90-minute-old domestic-facing news bulletin rebroadcast for an audience many of which have access to BBC One and Two anyway.

And sometimes the Ten covers sport events that happen in UK prime time. I think there’ll be some copyright issues if network bulletins are shown internationally.

But from an editorial aspect I think the Ten is suitable for world viewers because it has a good balance between domestic and international stories, and some major original international reports and analyses, which other World programmes don’t have.