[kookaburra]

This kind of “two lines update” could and should be easily covered during World feed ad breaks, but so far they haven’t been nimble enough to do it and they rely too much on Across the UK clips (which are not usually very current and are more magazine style, the kind of thing from an “And finally…” segment in the old days).

I’d like to see UK News in brief more often, less Across the U.K. and less filler content (trailers, etc) in general on the UK feed - there’s no need for it to go out on the global feed though.

I am hoping that they will eventually find their feet with the new channel and manage to do this better. Currently, for perhaps understandable reasons, the focus is on the World output - but they should be able to focus on both at once, somehow.

Even so, there’s still news happening in the UK. I was wondering just before whether UK opt outs have increased in the last week or so to cover off on the day’s domestic news. Doesn’t sound like it?

I’ve had access to World for a couple of weeks (hello hotels) and the all Israel conflict all the time is a bit much and I’m flicking to another channel quite quickly. For comparison, the ABC Asia Pacific service, which is a hybrid of the domestic news channel and its own standalone bulletins, give the first couple of stories to the conflict before moving on.