[Kojak]

I’ve still not warmed to it and doubt I will.

The change was way too drastic, a lack of testing has left me feeling pretty negative towards it.

I’m a BBC boy through and through with added CNN, but this broke that mould.

Terrible service for those stop watching in the UK and paying for it!

I don't understand why it wasn't tested more. Four of the 'fab five' were in rehearsals for a month, were they not? (Not Yalda Hakim - I understand she spent a good chunk of that time making a special report on the Taliban's treatment of drug addicts). Unless, as seems to be the BBC way, most of the ideas dreamt up before and during rehearsals were scrapped, leaving them to build a whole new channel on the fly? I don't know (and if anyone here does, I'd love to be set straight on what really happened). Like you, I still think it's a bit rubbish that we who pay the licence fee are the poor relations. Maybe this is the inevitable direction of travel - but I'd like to think we could have at least gotten a few more years out of the News Channel. I don't know - I'm just rambling at this point.