01-02-2024, 09:04 PM
(01-02-2024, 08:26 PM)leewilliams Wrote: vast sums of licence fee moneyAt most, you're talking about less than 0.02% of the BBC licence income. A few hundred k in a news operation whose overall budget is close to half-a-billion.
(01-02-2024, 08:53 PM)House Wrote: It’s never been particularly clear why 8-12GMT was treated so differently to the rest of the schedule in terms of named programmes etc.Because BBC World News never did anything there and, given how little thought apparently went into the formatting of the channel, stranded programmes basically ended up mirroring what was there before. Same reason that the business and sport segments are dotted completely irregularly throughout the schedule, it's a legacy carry over.