12-12-2023, 10:05 PM
(12-12-2023, 09:27 PM)interestednovice Wrote: Some might suggest that there is a bit of a tendency now to minimise or even eliminate mentions of the NC, as part of a deliberate policy to put the channel “under the radar”. Others may suggest that such thinking is not correct. We don’t know.
But it certainly seems, from my perspective, as if the BBC is a bit embarrassed about the quality of the NC these days, especially from a UK viewer perspective, and would rather hide it away as a result.
They could also be expecting to axe it in a future round of cuts, so are phasing out mentions of it now.
I have said it a few times now, if you were the BBC and you had decided to say, close down the news channel by 2030, steps which have been taken make more sense. Of course, the BBC will always have the output or the capacity to output in major events, but I think 24 hour news channels with rolling news will be obsolete by 2030. The majority get their news via the web or recently video shorts these days. A 24 hour channel seems very old fashioned once these methods are adopted more and tailored more for news.