[Radio_man]

I still struggle to see the financial sense in having a "UK opt standby team"...

Apparently the BBC can afford hiring and maintaining a team to standby, and spring into action to do UK opt-outs at any time from 0900 to 2300, but they can't afford to hire two shifts (or even one) and maintain a minimal core domestic service from 0900 to 1800 on weekdays?

Ridiculous isn't it and this is where the merger will fall down sooner or later-let's see if this is still going come Christmas/Easter 2024 or whether we end up getting the core domestic service back to 9:00am (10:00 am on Saturdays) to midnight regardless of cost (which i would ring fence).

It's all very well saying this is what you predict will happen (as you want the merger to fail before it's even been properly implemented) but when making these predictions of the separate UK NC returning for 15 hours a day, you also need to set out where the funding for it (along with all of the journalists, producers, presenters and other staff who have been made redundant) will be coming from.............