[thomalex]

Since finding the global ad-free stream of BBC News this morning, I can say how raw a deal we got in the UK.

Graphics all pull together and feels like an actual channel to the same quality of the old BBC News Channel.

Obviously no BBC iPlayer references of uses of the Chameleon icons for BBC Sport or Weather, the whole look just works.

Content wise, so much better, top of the hour news and bottom current affairs and docos. I would be much happier if we could have this instead.

In a way it is sad we lost the BBC News Channel but now it's a halfway house.

I would also be happier if they stripped out the BBC One and BBC Two broadcasts so we continued with what really is a renamed BBC World News.

Do your national bulletins, Breakfast and Nicky plus Newsnight on domestic services and just give us global channel?

Exactly my thoughts. What we've got is an international news channel with editorially more emphasis on UK news that before and the option to opt out to focus on a live UK breaking story. And if you want a UK focused news bulletin you have the well produced main bulletins on BBC One/iPlayer or can follow the news online. This is all fine by me, and if fact has the potential to offer more content and choice to the UK viewer than we had before.

The issue is then the simulcasting! The Campbell phone in Is on BBC Two, 5 Live and News. That is 3 channels (!) with the same output, all while you have a news channel you can't see. And the same goes for the main news bulletins and Newsnight. The News channel is effectively shut down for UK viewers for going on 5 hours each day.

Yes I understand why they do this, to increase the domestic output we are told, but as a domestic viewer I'm getting less content that I otherwise would have! It's completely mad.