[DTV]

I always admire your comments, DTV, but I don't think this is what people are suggesting.

I think the BBC should just come clean and admit that it's really an international news operation mainly funded commercially and operate it in that way (sans adverts in UK). There is scope within any schedule to insert local content without needlessly telling the rest of the World about it.

I'm not suggesting any sort of reversal. The merger has happened, but they need to sort out how it is played out in the UK and internationally as it appears to be something of a mangled mess at the moment.

Just to clear up confusion, I wasn't saying that was what people were suggesting, merely that it was what News76 was (and has repeatedly been) suggesting, with seemingly increasing detachment from practicality and financial reality.

More broadly, I do agree that they should be more open (and arguably proud) about the more international nature of the channel, but do feel that they generally have got the UK-World balance broadly right so far during shared programming - it's just really been at weekends when there have been these particularly odd editorial decisions.