[House]

Tonights Newswatch will explain the new differences on BBC News next week.

This whole thing is being done so oddly from my perspective. 

If it’s a ‘new channel’, then it should be launched with new graphics, generate some excitement with promotion, a proper on-screen farewell to the current channel. 

If it’s not a new channel but effectively just increased sharing programmes between domestic and world to cut costs, then minimising the changes would make sense. So you would continue with current presenters and brands that are known to U.K. and World audiences, like Outside Source. 

So, which is it? Seems like what’s happening is the worst of both worlds.

Isn’t the truth that this is being done for cost savings purposes, but management want to be able to point to format changes and new shows to argue they are saving money while introducing new value, rather than simply reducing output considerably?

Therefore they want to introduce lots of ‘innovative’ changes to justify this being more than a cost savings exercise, while at the same time minimising promotion and introducing step changes because the product isn’t ready and they don’t have the funds to do it properly?