[Roger Darthwell]

Well one thing's for sure this Merged Channel surely cannot (and will not) last the year (and i'm talking about 2023, not the financial year)-if they want output from Singapore and the US, put that on a separate stream and leave those of us who want UK News output 24 hours a day in peace

Leaving your continued fantasies of a wholesale reversal aside, this is probably the most nonsensical of all your suggestions yet - what possible justification could there be for replacing the US and Singapore overnight hours with UK-only news content? That's not just when the channel's audience is at its lowest, but is when it is so low that they couldn't even justify separate overnights after four months of News 24 back in 1998 - when the channel was nearly all bespoke UK-only and non-simulcast content.

I'm sorry if I ask this but......the 2 channels actually had separate overnights back in 1998? I didn't know that!