[bkman1990]

If I few words to say about the BBC News Channel. This would be it.

I had predicted some time ago that the new version of the BBC News Channel was going to become a lot worse than what went on with the editorial slant and presentation elements of the previous channel.

I cannot believe that within the initial rollout of it's launch to viewers; it pains me to say it but I have been right all along that it was going to become a significant failure in the interim.

I did have a lot of love for the previous version of the BBC News Channel for a long time before it. I had a gut instinct within me for quite a while to say that once the official plans were released by the BBC, to merge the 2 news channels together, it was going to become fraught with issues of becoming a very stilted and awkward product, and it was not going to become a huge success for viewers when it came out of the woodwork yesterday.

I do want to ask people here if Deborah Turness along the management are saying that it has become an initial success from the viewers point of view. What type of audience metrics are they currently looking at to prove it?

I would also like to ask has there been any significant numbers of people in the UK who have switched over to Sky News, Talk TV or GB News since the BBC News Channel relaunched yesterday?