[Kim Wexler’s Ponytail]

I think the point that is continually missed, however, is that we don’t *need* a news channel to give us UK-focused coverage. Throughout the course of the day we have Breakfast, Politics Live, News at 1, News at 6 and News at 10 giving domestic news coverage, alongside 5 Live, the website, the app, their Twitter feeds…

The BBC is moving away from the idea of having a rolling UK-specific news channel, but that doesn’t mean there’ll be no more domestic news covered anywhere. It makes perfect sense to have an international-focused news channel fitting alongside all of this, and those scrambling to point out what gaps there’ll be in the coverage from that one outlet in isolation are missing the point and the bigger picture entirely.

This is pretty much the same, almost word for word, BS template people used to try and justify why closing linear BBC Three down was a good idea. "We don't *need* a BBC Three channel. The audiance will still be well served by linear and online. Changing times yada yada yada."

Fast forward 7 years... .