[interestednovice]

I think (but don't know!) that that was never going to be until the autumn anyway. AFAIK it is still part of the plan - but I'd love to be proven wrong!

As someone from overseas, I kinda assumed that BBC Radio's "flagship" morning news radio show was Radio 4 Today, considering that Mishal Husein decided to drop her "Impact" show on BBCWN to present the radio program.

I somewhat believed that, maybe, that's gonna be the radio program that's gonna have a TV simulcast. Maybe part-R4 Today and part-Breakfast with sign language, not some random phone-in program on 5Live.

Your logic makes a lot of sense!
Unfortunately the BBC’s doesn’t.

Running Newsnight on delay plus keeping Sportsday at 10:30pm (either live or, if not really feasible live any more due to budget, repeated from 6:30pm) before re-joining WN at 11:30pm would make far more sense. Either that or drop simulcasting the Ten and go right through with WN including World News America.

It’s the same for Nicky Campbell - just air WN instead, it would be far better!

I can’t think of anything worse than a phone-in broadcast on TV. It’s a shameful plan.

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Shame focus on Africa is not on in the UK - it’s a good programme and brings variety to the schedule

I can see why they haven't gone for Focus on Africa on the NC, but there's a sizable African population in the UK who may tune into to see 30 mins of news from the continent.

They don't do daylight savings in Africa so during a portion of the year it will be at 5:30 in the UK and then at 6:30 during the other portion.

Presumably they could easily still air it?

They’d just have to swap around Sportsday when required!

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With the NC taking the 5 minute editions of Click with WN, fully integrating with WN's schedule, I'm strongly suspecting the NC's TX will originate from Red Bee (and be integrated as one of the WN regions) beginning April 3rd, maybe starting at 6AM.

The galleries in NBH will solely output live news programmes and no longer play out the weather and promos to sustain the channel. We might get to see WN stuff on the NC like the time-lapse fillers, breakbumpers... Sadly there's no news on the switching arrangements, so we might only know until the actual day of launch.

Either that or they will take the “clean feed” (fillers instead of ads) from Red Bee and put it through the router in NBH, switching feeds there when required as they do now.

This would mean they would not have to pay Red Bee to handle U.K. opts as they could be done entirely within NBH, and Red Bed would not need to set up a new “region”. Assuming that a truly ad-free version of WN does exist already - or does it not?