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I don’t see the point personally if I wanted to listen to Nicky Campbell I’d get the radio out, anyway I’ll just switch my dish to 19.2e where I am guaranteed the news from the bbc.

The point of visualising the radio programme is clearly not to make some brilliant, must watch show, it's to increase the number of UK only hours on this new channel so OFCOM will be happy with it. In my opinion it offers a nice variation from the standard BBC News bulletins. It's a unique simulcast in that it's actually quite different compared to the radio version. Surely it's much better than just showing the same TV programme on two different channels, something that happens all too frequently at present. 

People on here have been complaining that there's too many generic BBC News bulletins on the new channel. In the circumstances the Beeb currently find themselves in, this Radio 5 Live simulcast seems like a good middle ground between producing original content for the News Channel and better utilising content across multiple mediums.