05-11-2023, 11:19 AM
(05-11-2023, 10:48 AM)JMT1985 Wrote: But it does seem it is a bulletin worth dropping to me - 2 million may be the 40% share daily, but most likely that has been dropping for years. A quick news update before 1pm would suit most people and I feel as the 2020s progresses, the lunchtime news on both BBC One and ITV1 will become less and less needed.This just makes no real sense on any level.
- Audience-wise, the News at One upholds its share and status as one of the consistently strongest performers on daytime TV, so clearly still has a relative need above what else is on at the same time.
- Money-wise, as I said yesterday, you'd be saving little money from the news budget, but need to fill the slot with likely more expensive alternative programming.
- Requirement-wise, you'd be leaving a gap of near-UK-only BBC News TV programming for a large part of the day and be removing a programme that counts towards several of the BBC's PSB targets for some daytime schedule filler that doesn't.
- Future-wise, news' value on linear TV is higher than that of other genres, so it makes little sense to replace it with what would be non-time specific programming, a significant chunk of which would be repeats.