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What more can BBC News cost cut, until the point we get to either a terrible news service, or axing of other news bulletins - will the BBC News at One get axed, because in 2023, how many at lunchtime actually bother to watch news on TV during our lunch break?

US networks have never provided a networked national news programme at lunchtime, just a waste of money - maybe BBC One could axe the News at One and save cash there?

It's unlikely they'd axe the News at One as the edition specific costs of one news bulletin when you produce several are fairly small, plus it still rates well for that time of day and counts towards programming quotas that the BBC are obliged to meet. Indeed, given the need to reduce daytime commissioning budgets and the need to fill airtime, it'd make more sense to add extra BBC One news (as per the proposals to extend Breakfast and the News at One) as the small additional costs would be dwarfed by the savings elsewhere.

The US don't produce lunchtime national news bulletins, but then the major network news schedules are vastly different over there, with far more regional news taking its place - including mid-morning and late-afternoon bulletins. Similarly, US networks produce 'early morning' bulletins that, tenuously barring ITV's long-axed Morning News, don't really have a counterpart in the UK.