30-06-2021, 12:59 PM
The Viacom CBS submission says 'It is our intention to continue to broadcast the headlines in Peak Time (currently 1955 and 2055) to fulfil our revised Peak Time obligation'.
There appears to be no overall reduction in hours of news, they are just asking that the majority of the requirement be moved out of peak time to 5pm.
I think they have a good argument that the 18:30 bulletin is not additive to PSB due to the overlap with BBC Regional / National news at that time and that the move to 5pm would provide a block of PSB news across C5, BBC, ITV & C4 from 5pm - 8pm.
There appears to be no overall reduction in hours of news, they are just asking that the majority of the requirement be moved out of peak time to 5pm.
I think they have a good argument that the 18:30 bulletin is not additive to PSB due to the overlap with BBC Regional / National news at that time and that the move to 5pm would provide a block of PSB news across C5, BBC, ITV & C4 from 5pm - 8pm.