[Radio_man]

The BBC do have measures of their global audience, but they seldom release them anywhere other than the Annual Report - so it's likely nearly a year until we'll be able to see whether the international audience is holding up. And UK viewers better hope that it is, because any substantive decline in advertising revenue and syndication and distribution fees will just mean further budget cuts for the channel.

And, before somebody inevitably suggests it, no, the channel collapsing internationally would likely not allow for a return to a domestic channel, not without significant extra licence money being invested (which would, of course, likely be required to be a level higher than it was previously to cover for the huge amount of World-produced content on the old News channel).

The Context is very UK focussed tonight, leading with UK inflation figures (and Sunak giving his platitudes of "stick with me, it's all going to be ok" (roll eyes)) and the Scottish junior doctors pay offer.
Isn't The Context supposed to be a US leaning program? It does feel like editorially the global channel is often being sacrificed in favour of UK viewers interests, which is not necessarily a good thing for the global channel's revenues and sponsorship deals.