[Radio_man]

I still don’t see the point of simulcasting the Six and Ten without signing. Either sign it or just give us world news. And that title card is ghastly. 

They'll never drop simulcasts with Breakfast, 1, 6, 10. If anything, they'll increase the hours of simulcast in the future, in order to fill up the "UK opt" hour quota. They'll do anything to fulfill their narrative "we're still delivering more UK news in the new combined channel to our license fee payers".

With all of the simulcasts, UK viewers are going to miss a large part of the new channel's output in the hours that most people in the UK are actually awake.
Going on today's presenter shifts, once Nicky Campbell's phone-in simulcast starts, all we'll get to see on weekdays is:

11am - 12pm: Rotating presenters / Maryam M?
12 - 1pm: Lucy H
1:45 - 3pm: Lucy H
3 - 6pm: Matthew M
7 - 8pm: Yalda H
8 - 10pm: Christian F

And that's it. I agree that UK viewers should just be getting the full global channel, but for political reasons, it just won't happen. But if I was in the Republic of Ireland, where they can watch both the UK and Global BBC News channels, I know which channel I'd be watching...........