[interestednovice]

They are doing the best they can with the diminished budget they’ve got.

I’m sorry, but they are not at all.

It’s actually cost money to set up the “hostage screens area” and other modifications which were not strictly necessary.

And if the World feed is in Studio C, it wouldn’t be impossible to use Studio E for an opt even if it had to be a locked-off shot only driven by a single director - it wouldn’t take any more resources than opt-outs do now. Vice versa if World feed is using E. Again, it’s actually cost money to adapt the weather balcony area only for the “look” of authenticity by being in the newsroom. It’s unprofessional and amateurish, and there’s a perfectly good studio merely feet away.

And, again, “upgrading” a 5 Live Studio for “visualised radio” has cost money - totally wasted when they could simply broadcast the World feed at that time for a better service. A radio phone-in is not a rolling news programme.

The BBC have taken the public for fools. We pay for the channel outright, nobody else does, yet we only get to see half of it and our service is sub-par.

I haven’t kept fully up to date with this thread lately, but the fact is that the new channel launched as and remains an absolute joke.