11-08-2023, 11:17 AM
(11-08-2023, 10:15 AM)Radio_man Wrote: Nicky Campbell's phone-in now seems to be cut down to just the first hour permanently for UK viewers. It's only been on the UK News Channel for 9-10am for almost 2 weeks and it's listed as 9-10am next week as well, and this change can't be fully explained by the football as the phone-in has continued until 11am every day on 5 Live as normal. So a small victory there.If I recall correctly something similar happened when they decided to put Victoria Derbyshire's programme in the 9-11am slot on both channels. After a while it was reduced to just an hour, before eventually being dropped completely (can't remember if Covid was the reason/excuse).
It's worth noting that currently at 10.30am the non-UK/Europe schedule shows HARDtalk, whereas UK viewers have normal news coverage. If they were to reinstate a few more programmes into the back half-hours for non-UK viewers then it would potential allow for the second half of those hours to be UK focused news. A relatively easy way of providing more UK related news which would improve the merged service.
Formerly 'Charlie Wells' of TV Forum.