[Brekkie]

Yes, love this and the previous iteration of the ABC News look. And in a way considering Aussie viewers in Sydney seem to hate news from Melbourne and vice versa ABC News is already having to cater for different audiences with one stream for most of the day.

I don't think it's impossible to run a combined UK / World service - it's existed for many years overnight and at the weekend, plus on strike days. It's just the editorial of this new channel seems to be failing all audiences rather than catering to them. The trick I think is to focus more on bulletins and reports rather than lives and continuing rolling news - it certainly should be possible to give viewers the top couple of UK headlines and top couple of global headlines within the first 15 minutes of the hour, and then balance out the rest of the hour.

Is an argument too that rather than being the opt out points that the flagship UK bulletins should get a window on the world news channel to offer viewers seeking out the BBC a dedicated half hour of news from a British perspective at points in the schedule. Perhaps then World and UK can operate a split schedule at different points within the schedule instead, effectively adding an hour or two of UK content to a channel currently thin on it.


Anyhow, we're in the wrong thread to discuss that again in too much detail. I'm guessing the BBC hasn't commented on this and usually with news these ideas stay on the backburner for a while - I think the rumours of ITV extending the Evening News had been around for a number of years before anything came to fruition.