[Roger Darthwell]

Does the BBC need a 24h rolling news channel, for its UK audiences, as news is available in many forms, platforms and services across the BBC.

Would it be worth spending the money they have and with the closure of the news channel, by improving its news coverage for the nations and regions across the various platforms.

if there is a need for a 24h news related UK channel, look at adopting and developing BBC radio 4 or 5 live as a TV channel on a full time basis, (radio on TV, similar to bloomberg, GBNews and talk TV radio) with a mixture of world programming throughout the evenings and weekends.

Rather than the current proposal, with limited UK news provision if the rumours are true.  That way there is content to cater for the domestic BBC audience.

In reality, news content provision doesn't need a 24h rolling news channel, given there are many ways of accessing news these days, even across the BBC.

Again, couldn’t disagree more. What are these many ways of accessing news? The BBC News website? 5 Live?

I’m sorry, but if there’s a major breaking news story - a page of text and a few photos isn’t enough for me. I want rolling news on the telly. Whenever it happens. I don’t want to wait for 6pm.

Justifying what is just emergency cuts due to desperate cost saving as trimming away unnecessary services is massively insulting.

I can only think those who are justifying them are either from overseas or anti-BBC.

Well said, Moz. This is exactly how I feel about the situation, too. Sometimes static information and pictures or short video clips are just not enough. Take for instance the Paris terrorist attacks in 2019. Watching that unfold as it happened was surreal. As was 9/11. I also remember watching the fire at Notre Dame as it unfolded. Granted those are overseas stories and would be covered by the new channel anyway, but the point is if such events occurred in the UK (or even overseas), I would want rolling coverage from a UK editorial perspective. I don't think that is much to ask from our national broadcaster. As I said on TV Live Forum, the BBC is a British institution and should be serving the needs of the UK audience above everything else. I understand that it makes more commercial sense for them to run the international channel, but in terms of principle, it ought to be the opposite outcome. Sadly, only money talks in this day and age and this is the result. Principle and 'doing the right thing' are, by and large, ancient history in most walks of life.

Apologies if I am correcting you itsrobert, but do you mean the Paris attacks of 2015?