16-08-2022, 07:08 AM
Was just trying to work out what the balance of the proposed "new" UK news channel will be (on weekdays, at least)...
Simulcasts of UK programmes = 7h10m/7h* (Breakfast 3hrs, Nicky Campbell 2hrs, the News at One/Six/Ten totalling 90mins, Newsnight 40mins/30mins*). (*10-minute-shorter Newsnight on Fridays).
So, that's 16h50m/17h of "World" simulcasting per weekday (apart from the few minutes per hour of bits & bobs to replace the overseas commercial breaks), and presumably much more on weekends & bank holidays.
I can see them reducing Newsnight to 30mins every day, so that it doesn't ride roughshod over the 23:00 TOTH on the NC, needing an awkward opt-in circa 23:10 into whatever World content is already underway.
But will it really be "just" a simulcast of World (minus ad breaks) during that 70-ish% of the day? Or might there be a fair degree of the UK getting different stuff in at least some of the Back half-hours (e.g. the main edition of Sportsday at 6:30pm)???
Simulcasts of UK programmes = 7h10m/7h* (Breakfast 3hrs, Nicky Campbell 2hrs, the News at One/Six/Ten totalling 90mins, Newsnight 40mins/30mins*). (*10-minute-shorter Newsnight on Fridays).
So, that's 16h50m/17h of "World" simulcasting per weekday (apart from the few minutes per hour of bits & bobs to replace the overseas commercial breaks), and presumably much more on weekends & bank holidays.
I can see them reducing Newsnight to 30mins every day, so that it doesn't ride roughshod over the 23:00 TOTH on the NC, needing an awkward opt-in circa 23:10 into whatever World content is already underway.
But will it really be "just" a simulcast of World (minus ad breaks) during that 70-ish% of the day? Or might there be a fair degree of the UK getting different stuff in at least some of the Back half-hours (e.g. the main edition of Sportsday at 6:30pm)???