01-09-2023, 12:14 PM
Just shows viewers can find content elsewhere when it isn't on BBC1, though surprising actually they don't bump Breakfast over to BBC2 on Sundays when MOTD is usually happens should the slot on other days be filled with live sport. Presumably there is some contractual obligation for the MOTD repeat to usually be on BBC1 rather than scheduling that on BBC2.
On weekdays it probably should be the 5pm and 9pm hour they're concentrating on. Obviously the schedule had already changed a bit since 2018 anyway with Outside Source moving earlier, so be interesting to see if it was the format or the time slot which bought in the viewers there. I do think a straight BBC World News bulletin in the 9pm hour would probably be preferential to The Context - appeal to viewers who want detailed news from the BBC but maybe in more depth than the 10pm bulletin, or just don't want to stay up to watch it.
On weekdays it probably should be the 5pm and 9pm hour they're concentrating on. Obviously the schedule had already changed a bit since 2018 anyway with Outside Source moving earlier, so be interesting to see if it was the format or the time slot which bought in the viewers there. I do think a straight BBC World News bulletin in the 9pm hour would probably be preferential to The Context - appeal to viewers who want detailed news from the BBC but maybe in more depth than the 10pm bulletin, or just don't want to stay up to watch it.