22-07-2023, 04:19 PM
(22-07-2023, 11:59 AM)Brekkie Wrote: It was always evident sacrificing the morning slot especially would be problematic for UK breaking news.
I do think even with the content produced now there is a bit of flexibility to shift one show to a UK focus, assuming they can now put out two rolling programmes simultaneously.
I assume there are currently two UK based World shifts in the morning then the branded shows at 12, 3, 6 and 8. For me as a starting point I'd have the morning World shifts stretched to 1pm, then branded 3-hour shows at 1, 4 and 7. That frees up one team to be UK only either airing either 9-12 or a split shift of 10-12 and 2-4.
There's currently 3 morning presenter shifts from NBH; 5 - 7am, 7 - 9am & 9am - 12pm.
Yet on Wednesdays, there's no actual dedicated full hour of news on the UK stream until 1pm.
I don't understand why 9am - 12pm can't be 3 hours of UK focussed news and branded as such with say Martine, Karin or Annita, it could be called "UK Today". After all, the channel is meant to focus on its core markets at peak times in those markets.
9am - 12pm is a busy time for developing UK news and the UK news agenda is set for the day, and this will apply even more so over the next 12 - 18 months in the long build up to the General Election. Yet UK viewers get a radio phone-in every morning. I just don't get it.