[DTV]

I have never understood the UK morning set up on the new News Channel. Before the merger morning used to have very few viewers after European breakfast which is why there would often only been news summaries at the top of some of the hours and the shared 10am hour produced by the news channel team. This implies that it was not cost effective to produce a world bulletin during this time.

Would it not make more sense for the morning to have a slightly larger UK focus for announcements and speeches, between 9 and 12 and then switch to the global focus at midday. After all the US are sleeping at this time and it's is late afternoon in the Far East so people will still be working.

Yeah, there's definitely room for more UK content in that slot, which has always been a graveyard shift internationally - they did briefly try and do something special there around 2008 (double-headed hour-long bulletin with David Eades and Lucy Hockings), but that didn't last.

As a side note, a broad guide to when people are watching around the world can generally be found by looking at schedules from around 2007. Anywhere with 'branded' news programming (World News Today, World News America) is usually when viewership peaked, while anywhere that still had pre-recorded (or repeated) back-half hours is where the troughs were.