[Radio_man]

Confirmation the Nicky Campbell show is now permanently one hour only.

deadline.com 

Arguably, like this morning, there are some mornings when the phone-in should be dropped altogether. To spend an hour broadcasting a phone-in debating whether children should brush their teeth in school, on the morning of a significant by-election result, with no acknowledgement of that result at all apart from in the short news summaries, is editorially questionable on a supposedly 24 hour news channel. 
You'd hope that in two weeks time on the morning after the result of the next two English by-elections, a full morning UK opt from 9am will be planned.

The second half of the article talks about the channel losing viewers. This morning, people tuning in between 9-10am expecting some coverage of the result, but instead finding a debate about "Toothbrushes in the classroom" will have channel hopped elsewhere and likely not gone back later on. 

This is of course without even going into the debate about whether it was suitable for international audiences on the combined channel to get in depth coverage of the result after 11am.

Let's hope that those 5 female presenters are back on air this autumn to bring some professionalism back to the channel alongside the 4 remaining chief presenters.