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Some would say job done then.   Will be interesting to see how any election is covered - World viewers aren't going to be interested in the day to day campaigning of an election campaign.

I have a feeling they will just televise Electioncast (as they did in the last election period) and call it a day. If things carry on the way they are, though, I can see there being much more election stuff on World than there should be. 

That brings me on to a broader point, as it happens: this new channel has turned out to be such a fudge. Can't imagine anyone is that happy with it, be it UK viewers wanting more UK news, or World viewers wanting world news. There seems to be a really unhappy medium that editors have settled on. The presentation is basic enough to put GB News to shame. Surely if it carries on like this, the all-important world viewers will start to switch off in their droves? I can't for one minute fathom your average BBC World viewer in New York or Nairobi giving a hoot about P. Schofield, or the intricacies of the upcoming Labour manifesto. Fewer viewers = less ad revenue = even less money for BBC News = further cutbacks. Not what anyone here wants to see, I'm sure. 

I won't go over old ground because it's been done to death. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. If this move of the One to Salford really happens then there's even less chance of any reversal, partial or otherwise. What the BBC News head honchos need to do now is make these new arrangements work. They don't seem to be doing that at the moment.