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Which shouldn't need to be made at all full stop.

Not when you've basically already cut to the bone you don't and harsh reailty's are not what's needed here.

The unavoidable financial reality is that cuts do need to be made and that these have to be made by every department and channel. While BBC News as a department has undoubtedly suffered severe cuts, most of these have not been directly related to the News channel itself. Further behind the scenes cuts to BBC News would likely have a seriously detrimental effect on newsgathering and production, so they only real solution is in cutting whole sections of output. In budgetary terms, the BBC News channel has not been cut to the bone and has arguably done better than most other channels.

Real terms content budget cut 2007-2022
BBC One: -28%
BBC Two: -49%
BBC Four: -70%
BBC News channel: -9%
BBC Radio 1: -20%
BBC Radio 2: -16%
BBC Radio 3: -30%
BBC Radio 4: -28%
BBC Radio 5 Live: -39%
BBC Local Radio: -23%

The cuts and their effects aren't pleasant or ideal, but they are happening and there is nothing the BBC can do.

That's becuase us viewers won;t fight for what they want! 

And i disagree-as far as i'm concerned the news channel is at the point where you cannot cut anymore-i'm not budging from this.

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Not when you've basically already cut to the bone you don't and harsh reailty's are not what's needed here.

Oh please. The BBC is extremely well resourced. Its commercial rivals operate in a much tighter way.

Then you're missing my point entirely which is fine just don't expect me to budge from the opinion that this merger is a VERY BAD idea-you can't operate a news channel on 5 presenters-you just can't do it.