17-11-2023, 10:18 AM
I'd argue it's going to be difficult to justify bringing Nicky Campbell's phone-in back to the News Channel. It was launched to much fanfare by management as being a "premium" UK-only program for UK news channel viewers, yet it was quietly cut in half during August and has been dropped altogether for the last 6 weeks as soon as there's been a major international news story.
Next year is hardly going to be a quiet year for news, with the build-up to next year's widely expected UK general election having already started, the build-up to the US Presidential election, and no doubt the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine will be rumbling on. So viewers will have now come to expect actual news on the channel from 9am every morning.
Next year is hardly going to be a quiet year for news, with the build-up to next year's widely expected UK general election having already started, the build-up to the US Presidential election, and no doubt the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine will be rumbling on. So viewers will have now come to expect actual news on the channel from 9am every morning.