01-07-2023, 03:03 PM
(01-07-2023, 02:01 PM)Stuart Wrote: All the 30+ internationally broadcast channels are commercially successful, and some of that funds our domestic news service. I wonder what people are expecting these days for so little money.This has been my thoughts exactly since details of the merger trickled out, and even more so since the merger actually happened.
Even if they close the UK opts, they will still have to provide a national and regional news service.
I'd much rather they just broadcast the full international feed (sans adverts) and leave the bulletins to BBC One as do ITV1, C4 and C5.
This mangled mixture of a channel is a mess.
They can't even play out the same idents/titles with any element of regularity or coherence, let alone opt from one feed to another without it looking like a cheap cable channel from Cambodia.
The BBC News Channel should have had a proper close down (and send off) on 31 March, with BBC World News taking over in full, 24/7, from 6pm on 31 March.
No simulcasts of any domestic BBC 1 or 2 news or politics programmes, no simulcasts of Breakfast or the 1, 6 or 10 - just full BBC World News, 24 hours a day. It is quite ridiculous that the only country in the world that cannot watch the full BBC News International service is the very country where the service originates from.
But that ship has sailed and we're stuck with the fudge we've now got, that coincidentally, I now barely watch.