10-10-2022, 09:44 PM
(10-10-2022, 08:13 PM)Radio_man Wrote: You're going to be waiting indefinitely. The BBC is currently being (deliberately) starved of cash by the UK government. World News brings in lucrative advertising and sponsorship revenue from around the world, it might not be huge amounts but it's extra income for the BBC. The News Channel brings in nothing and is another expense from a dwindling license fee pot. World News was never going to be cut or closed in favour of the News Channel.
I don't agree with the demise of the NC by the way, far from it. I'd like nothing more than to see the NC restored to how it was in 2012/13 after the move to NBH. But we need realism here, we are where we are, that's simply not going to happen.
Yep, this is fundamentally the position we are in. The best we can hope for is that they choose one of the options that allows for some degree of separated programming during the afternoons. Though, despite there being clear cost-effective options for this, I increasingly doubt any of them will be taken.
It is all far from ideal, but it is the financial reality and is really the only path where you end up with any form of BBC News channel in the UK. I know there are some who feel that World should take the brunt, but, as I've explained before, there is no plausible situation in which BBC World News becomes financially unviable that does not end in the demise of the BBC News channel as well.
PS, on an unrelated note, can people please crop quotes - the forum gets very hard to read when every other post includes a four-quote thread in it.