[Worzel]

I really don't get the continued expectations that it'll be a rebadged BBC World News. I feel like the interim period could have been 100% UK news and people here would still be fretting that UK news was going to get cut loose - it very clearly isn't.

Because the channel is launching in studio C (which is pretty much being read its last rights in terms of equipment failures) with BBC World News presenters to boot talking about the UK Finance Minister, plus legacy BBC World News branded segments such as World Business Report. 

The core/main feed is clearly the 'Global stream' with the ability for the UK to opt out of that. Not the other way around. So it will likely be BBC World News being broadcast in the UK, with a few domestic stories thrown in and the Around the UK feature filler while World News is running adverts.

How the channel will be described on other outlets will be interesting though. They can't signpost to 'The BBC News channel' as that doesn't really exist anymore and 'BBC News' is the brand as well as a channel (and department within the corporation).

I do wonder how long it'll be before one of the presenters accidentally says 'BBC World News' on the channel! Took a while to shake off the News 24 references in 2008. I give it by the end of the first day.