24-04-2023, 10:47 PM
(24-04-2023, 09:54 PM)Frances Wrote: Don’t know if it’s been mentioned before - The Context now ends at 2150, followed by a sport update on the UK feed.Tidying up the timings of Sport and Business segments is one of those small, easy changes they could make that would improve things a bit (or at least make things make more sense/be more useable). At the minute, some hours have Business updates, some have Sport bulletins, some have both and some have neither; sometimes the Business and Sport segments are branded and listed, sometimes they aren't; and the times within the hours that such segments appear varies significantly - Sport, for instance, could be at half-past, quarter-to or gone ten-to.
Given the supposed focus of the new channel on live news, it is arguably a little surprising for them to continue with such fixed updates. But if they are to persist with them, surely it would make more sense for them to be regular or, at the very least, signposted for those interested. One solution would be to use the 16:00 hour/old-WNT format across the schedule - i.e., have a roughly 10-minute segment at xx:40, with this alternating between business and sport. This would also allow World to opt-out after the segment for their weird 5-minute features, giving some more space for UK news.