20-02-2024, 07:32 PM
(20-02-2024, 05:34 PM)Brekkie Wrote: It being a bad slot also makes it a good slot though - there is a floating audience around at 9pm and it's a fixture there that, in theory if not in practice, potential viewers would be familar with. Also it being a competitive slot means by sticking the news there they're not wasting new programming there.
As for the channel as a whole I personally would see it axed and opts return to BBC2.
Yes, this is all true!
Sometimes I feel like news at 9pm, having missed the earlier bulletins on various channels, and The Nine did fit the bill and was a good programme. But arguably curtailing the Context and putting out and “overview of the day” programme on the News Channel from 9-10pm would be a better use of money. If they liked, they could even produce it in Glasgow on the Nine set. But that last bit is far-fetched!
I agree on the return of BBC Two opts being better for Scottish viewers on a practical level, and of course unlike some of us most people never even saw The Nine!