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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.............

It's not just an issue of where the money is coming from but where on Earth would the pressure come from to elicit not just a backtrack to the pre-merger status quo but to the set-up that existed about half-a-dozen rounds of cuts (and eight years) ago. I mean, I'm actually surprised at how little complaint (outside the BBC and this forum) there has been about the phasing out of the News channel over the past few months - admittedly this is probably because shared output has very clearly skewed domestic, but I expect the new channel to be still fairly disproportionately UK-focussed and so can't see where the flood of complaints will come from.