[VMPhil]

This is my first time posting, and I want to express my sympathies with the staff working at BBC news today. I’m sure this isn’t the product they envisioned, or wanted to be putting out, and I hope over the next few months they can work to deliver a better quality product. Whilst I think the move to consolidate the channels was short sighted, I really do think they can eventually make this work in some form, even if it looks unpolished at the minute.

I just feel sad. Sad that it’s gotten to this point where the BBC is forced to output this compromise service that doesn’t serve either the UK or international audiences very well. 

To think, a few years ago we had Afternoon Live with Simon McCoy - we didn’t know how good we had it.