[interestednovice]

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.

True, although that does rather negate the BBC’s official line that “The BBC News Channel launched in 2023, and is a single channel with the ability to provide international and UK content as appropriate”!

I don’t know why they didn’t pick a lane and stick to it: they could have either just kept the BBC World News name, making carry-overs less strange; or properly started again with a clean slate for the “new” BBC News and tried to think a bit more outside the box about how to make the new service work best. What we’ve ended up with continues to be a confusing hodgepodge of the two predecessor channels, and is clearly a spiritual successor to WN in format and pacing - not the old days of the NC.