[ViridianFan]

I can’t imagine what it must be like working at NBH at the moment. It’s been clear from watching the NC and the bits of BBC World were simulcast in the past that everyone who worked on them took great pride in making sure the output was high quality. It’s clear that the cuts have gone so deep they’ve hit bone now.

Yes I’ll hold my hands up as a person who didn’t want the NC to go and that I didn’t think this merged channel would keep either audiences happy but in the same breath i understand the cut in budgets and there are difficult choices to be made. I wanted the channel to work too as it was the only option. It just proves how bad the budget is that they are making the cuts they are.

Having said that, the very cynical side of me can’t help but start thinking, has this been designed by senior managers to fail.

There was a total lack of information coming out at any point and internally the impressions been given that no one had a picture of the final product. Even when Ofcom asked the response was we are still putting the plan together. It’s almost as if they knew what was going to happen and no one would be happy so they just kept quiet.

The other reason I’m starting to think this is if you look through the posts, repeatedly the same comment comes up: “surely they’d have noticed/realised…”. I’m starting to thinking that yes they did notice and that they’ve let it happen anyway. these points we’ve all been talking about aren’t just little things people like us would notice, these are things which even the everyday or occasional viewer are going to notice and complain about.

It does feel as if the whole thing is being run into the ground at the moment. As someone said early things are alright. We all know that alright though isn’t good enough because it instantly opens the BBC for attack. People will moan about the BBC even when its on its A game but it can brush the criticism aside, however it doesn’t feel like it’s on top form at the moment