[Radio_man]

Nor is it reflective of the news cycle. 9am-midday is the busiest time for announcements, developing news, etc. That’s exactly when you want a rolling channel. But the NC has had this blind spot going back to Victoria Derbyshire.

It's unbelievable to think now, that when the rebranded BBC News Channel replaced BBC News 24 in April 2008, it decided to break away from Breakfast at 8:30am every weekday morning, and there were two double headed presenter morning shifts before lunchtime.
Then something happened around 2015, a change of management perhaps (and by then we'd had 5 years of austerity driven by the coalition government, including the freezing of the license fee), and suddenly mornings were classed as not important for providing coverage of developing news and fair game for cuts.