[all new phil]

This is why it is so frustrating they axed the dedicated BBC News Smart TV app.   That really was excellent with on demand reports and headlines and could have been a place where in lieu of a news channel you could include the BBC World stream, BBC Parliament and then pop up streams for live breaking news events and visualisation of some Radio content.

A million percent this. This is what “BBC News” on tv should look like. ITVX have this idea but the implementation isn’t quite there. It surprises me that a lot of ‘interactive’ stuff has been rolled back in recent years, I fully expect it to come back into fashion now connected tvs are pretty much the norm. 

For what it’s worth the BBC News Digest on BBC Sounds is excellent. Starts cycling through the top stories, before going into longer listen stuff that’s topical.