[Former Member 406]

This is clearly a very polarising thing.

I'm very much in the camp of being fine with what the proposed new end-product news channel for UK will be. I appreciate that it's a rubbish situation for staff who will lose their jobs, but the real-terms reduction to the Beeb's income stream due to the licence fee price freeze sadly means something's got to give.

As other's have already said, in this era of on-demand news via outlets such as the website and the app, how much value does a dedicated 24-hour rolling linear news channel for UK audiences really have?

It is my understanding that *all* rolling news channels, for as long as such things have existed, have generally had pitifully low viewership compared to most other type of linear television channels. Please correct me if that's not so.

I appreciate that if you happen to be part of the fairly niche "news junkie" audience that makes significant use of the BBC's (and/or any other) news channel(s), then the proposed NC changes are a big deal. But, realistically, what proportion of the total audience/population/licence-fee-payers consume the NC to any significant extent (or even at all)? Genuine question.