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I think another key difference is both ITN and BBC World were very much fixed bulletin-based, whereas the new-style BBC News is kind of one big long never-ending bulletin. With the half-hour bulletins the former were based around, you kind of HAVE to be fast-paced to get all the stories in. The News Channel is the complete opposite, very meandering and going around the houses.

A good idea might be to go back to that style on the hour and then have all the analysis and interviews in the back half hour. That way you’ve kind of covered both bases.

That's certainly part of it, but News 24/the old News channel was also not so much a fixed bulletin and still managed to be quite pacy for many years, though it did slow down quite a bit towards the end. I'm also not too sure about piling up the slower bits in one half-hour - BBC World tried out something similar around 2005 with BBC News Extra, but it wasn't that successful and World News Today ultimately found a better way of doing that kind of thing.

Ultimately, it's that kind of WNT/mid-00s-mid-10s NC template that I've always thought worked best - they 'analysed' and did interviews, but only on a few stories each hour, and usually largely different ones hour-to-hour - plus, when they replayed interviews, they were edited down. The issue at the minute is that the interviews are too frequent, often too long and are too often repeated in full - which is just really slowing. Plus, the newsroom/correspondent interviews are just inefficient when compared to packaged reports (or even old-style DtLs) - as they're unscripted, they're taking much longer to impart the same information in as less visually engaging way.