[Radio_man]

I guess we should be thankful that on this new BBC News Channel, there is the option to opt-out to bring UK audiences news that is significant for us but irrelevant for international viewers, such as Starmer's speech this morning. But all it highlights is that the UK "feed" of the channel has next to zero budget now. Presentationally, there's no professionalism to the channel - UK opts crash out and then back into the international channel, there's no dedicated studio available to the UK stream, yesterday morning during the by-election coverage, the UK stream couldn't even manage proper TOTH headline sequences, so presumably there's no separate presentation gallery available to the UK stream either.

I'm probably very late to the thread with these thoughts. I just find it quite sad. The channel is rarely, if ever, mentioned on domestic bulletins now as somewhere to go for more news & analysis. The BBC is purely relying on people's loyalty and trust in the BBC News brand to keep viewers. If the license fee is abolished by the next UK government, maybe that will be the final nail for any UK news channel output. Or it'll become a subscription service, in which case, a much more professional operation would be expected.