31-08-2023, 11:02 PM
(31-08-2023, 02:41 PM)interestednovice Wrote: However, I object to the concept of “visualised radio” really in the first place and would rather just stick with the world feed anyway. If you want to listen to the radio, do that. It’s just simulcasting again, so we already have access to the output. Officially, the NC world feed isn’t available to UK viewers at all when we are opted out - so we lose access to that content in order to have a duplicate of something we can already get elsewhere. It makes no sense, especially when none of the radio programmes are really news-focused enough to work and heavily opinion-led programming doesn’t fit on the NC.
The global NC feed has the capability to deal with breaking news, being designed as a news broadcast - the radio shows really don’t.
This one million times. If you want to listen to the radio, go and listen to the radio. Why on earth are we debating what radio shows should be simulcast on the NC to give some UK content? How about having a properly resourced UK TV news channel?
And if that's not possible, which it obviously no longer is, just close the UK side of the channel completely and drop the pretence that the BBC can provide a proper UK TV news service.
Seeing the clip of GMT with Lucy Hockings a few pages back emphasizes how far the presentation on this channel has fallen.
I maintain my opinion that instead of the fudge we have now that's butchered both the UK and World channels, that the UK channel should've been sacrificed to save World News in its pre-March 2023 format.
BBC World News could've been made available on iPlayer for UK viewers as a global news channel without adverts, and Nicky Campbell could've filled mornings on BBC 2.
Then maybe a part-time, daytime only UK News Channel could've returned in a few years time when the BBC's funding was in a better position.