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It’s interesting to read the replies to this tweet. They reveal that many people are completely unaware of the impending changes to the News Channel and that this is what he is referring to. Some of the repliers think that he is retiring and that it is an April Fools.

It's the same with replies to many other BBC presenters that have tweeted similar farewell BBC NC messages. Most people are totally unaware of what's happening.

Also, it seems like there was some sort of a farewell event for BBC NC people, last night. Several tweets from yesterday mentioned it, I'm not sure if that third photo Huw posted is from last night or something old.

In a way, this shows that how the merger has been handled has been a success from the point of view of not wanting viewers to notice what is happening. The changes have been gradual since last September. Familiar NC faces have been presenting the joint service this past month.

On Monday some regular NC viewers who don't read forums like this might wonder why there are new presenters on air, but what else will really change? Even the name of the channel is the same from Monday.
(Although UK viewers will rightly wonder why on earth they are getting a radio phone-in on a TV news channel in the mornings when it's launched.)

If anything, the viewers who have had the most change have been World viewers. They've lost all of their old branded programmes, haven't seen any of their regular European daytime anchors for the last month, and now get much more UK-focussed news and content.