[Radio_man]

I saw in the Newsnight thread someone say that the limited UK operation of the news channel should be cut with the savings invested into saving Newsnight. I'd say that any savings from cutting the UK operation of the news channel should go back into the global channel to bring the presentation up to the standard that was trumpeted when World News moved into NBH in 2013.

A promotional video for the move to NBH was put in the Nostalgia thread recently, and it's sad seeing how far the global channel has fallen. The video boasted about presenters being able to roam freely around the studio, World having the availability of 3 different studios, and of course we had the stunning skyline backdrops, although now screens in C do need updating.
I'm still confused why the new channel doesn't go with a skyline backdrop when The Context gets a very obvious London backdrop (for no apparent reason) and Washington is allowed a nighttime Washington backdrop. A generic city skyline backdrop could easily be generated for C, but then there's nothing wrong with the previous daytime skyline backdrop used in C, after all, bulletins do start with "Live from London".

But then none of what this news channel is now should come as a surprise after years of cuts to the license fee and salami slicing of news operations, and the BBC having a DG who recently addressed the backbench 1922 committee of the Conservative party. It's no coincidence that the biggest changes to news operations have happened under his watch. I'm sure I read that the previous DG, Tony Hall, considered a merger of World and the NC but blocked it.