[DTV]

Any ratings from India yet?

It’s not the Indian Broadcasting Corporation so who cares!?

Advertisers, on which the channel is financially reliant.

My guess is that 2300-0200 will be from Singapore for Newsday, 0300-0500 will be from Washington for the generic bulletins.

I doubt 0300-0500 would be from Washington, as that would be 11pm to 1am EDT. By contrast the same time slot in Singapore would be 11am to 1pm SGT. Therefore I can't imagine Washington being used beyond midnight (UK time), as they'd be outside of normal daytime working hours.

05:00 UKT is 00:00 in Washington for most of the year - a bit late, but this is pretty much what I expected when it was first announced. I doubt they'll move Singapore hours as Newsday has been fairly successful as a breakfast programme for Asia and moving it to non-Asia peak hours seems counter-intuitive.

By contast, the overnight (02:00-05:00 UKT) shift is wholly in evening and late peaks for some part of the US and parts of the shift are rebroadcast on PBS and serve as the equivalent of WNA for the West Coast. Plus, broadcasting from Washington at those times wouldn't be without precedent - Philippa Thomas used to co-present the overnight edition of World News Today from Washington.