[News76]

Both BBC News and the BBC News channel have been valid since 2008 - it's always been officially called BBC News, but has often been verbally called the BBC News channel when simply BBC News sounds clunky or confusing (i.e., when referenced on other channels or to distinguish from e.g., the BBC News website).

Yes, but with the merger on the horizon the use of BBC News Channel when name checking. TOTH or other  by presenters has all but gone with only Croxall continuing todo so. The other main presenters such as Gosling, McVeigh, Brown and Hill never refer to the NC anymore. it was just interesting to hear a trail using the words. The channel is on as background noise most days so I noticed it as soon as it was said. I can't think of any other instance where a promo uses the full name of the channel. It would surely make sense for a channel that's going to be called BBC News to run generic trails across both channels as is the case most of the time. (cost cutting surely) ;-)

The words i never want to hear ever again, in fact this whole merger should be thrown straight into Room 101 if it were up to me and cost cutting started again from scratch (not that i will be listened to on this but there we go!)