27-01-2023, 11:10 PM
Here's a mad idea... why not ditch the 10 O'Clock News, and shift Newsnight over to BBC1? It isn't without precedent - the Dutch public broadcaster did something similar many years ago. Just tack the regional news on at the end, add a news summary halfway through, and that's your 10-11 hour filled. Job's a good'un.
There was talk several years ago of Newsnight being moved to 8pm (albeit still on BBC2). It never came to anything, obviously, but it's an interesting idea. The Flemish version of Newsnight, Terzake, goes out at 8pm each weeknight, and that does well. (They actually moved it to 10.30 at one point, which went down so badly it moved back to 8pm within months.)
(26-01-2023, 04:25 PM)Brekkie Wrote: I have thought for a while now that Newsnight might do a better job for BBC News at 9pm on the news channel than 10.30pm on BBC2, with perhaps a repeat at 11pm on BBC2 so it doesn't disappear from their schedules completely.
There was talk several years ago of Newsnight being moved to 8pm (albeit still on BBC2). It never came to anything, obviously, but it's an interesting idea. The Flemish version of Newsnight, Terzake, goes out at 8pm each weeknight, and that does well. (They actually moved it to 10.30 at one point, which went down so badly it moved back to 8pm within months.)