28-05-2023, 09:07 PM
(28-05-2023, 07:40 PM)interestednovice Wrote: This would probably get similarly short-shrift from management as criticisms of the BBC covering up the international feed on the UK merged news channel in favour of radio simulcasts and simulcast of other domestic output, but given there was breaking international news already being covered by the CNNI team that was significant you would have thought that they could have dropped the scheduled repeat on CNN US - it is supposed to be a news channel after all.
I think time zones are a factor in this, they want to repeat (or air a second edition of) their main Sunday political shows for domestic audience living on the West Coast at a reasonable time. Of course, if there is a major breaking news or a live event, they switch to covering it, but usually it is the case for domestic stuff, not for presidential election overseas.
Mind you, unlike UK viewers in regard to former BBC World News, US cable viewers usually do have access to CNNI as well as CNN Domestic, so they have the choice - watch repeat of top Sunday morning programs or switch to a live coverage of Turkey elections on CNNI.
UPD. BTW, Lynda Kinkade in Atlanta took over Turkey Election Coverage from Becky Anderson at 4:30 ET