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That’s the thing - many of us had seen and really liked both the old channels, so all they had to do really was pick a style and run with it; they would have ended up with a decent channel. It’s such a shame they decided to throw the baby out with the bath water and go for what we’ve actually got, a total reinvention of the wheel that’s not as good as either predecessor service.

Even more broadly than presentationally, in hindsight, I think they should have just gone with a full schedule of pre-merger 10:00 joint BBC News hours. It might not be the ideal, but it's about the UK-World balance they ended up with, while having been a more dynamic format and more fitting of the supposed 'back to basics' intent of the new channel. Once they got that right, then they could have started experimenting with newer formats, new presentation, etc.

As I've said for a while now, the real problem with the new channel is just a complete failure to really answer (or maybe even ask) what the purpose of it should be and what it should be doing. This is why you have just a weird and deeply flawed mixture of new things nobody asked for (e.g., the pointless branded programmes, magaziney Across the UK features), legacy fixtures that are hanging around for no real reason (the timing of business and sport updates) and well intended but misguided expansions of things that worked well as time-specific features (attempt to emulate OS and Context across the day).