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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.

Without deviating too much from this thread, I do agree with certain aspects of this - that the new channel should have a pacier focus on news (which would allow it deliver more World and UK stories) and that it would be good if there were some opportunities for some extra UK-only news content - but the other parts of this just feel like retreading things that have been extensively discussed or even debunked in the other thread.

Network bulletins on World is wholly unnecessary and would require either a butchering of network bulletins to cater for World's timings or losing two ad breaks a day (and £100ks per year). I'm also not sure why there is this continued implication that UK news is unfairly undercovered (timing-wise/proportionally, story-wise is a different issue) on the channel.