Plans for BBC One HD

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I have always considered the Red Screen Of Death to be an utterly poor "solution" for BBC One HD.

I'd have preferred either a revival of UK Today, or for whatever's going out on the NC at the time (e.g. Sportsday etc) to be simulcast on BBC One HD and be structured to begin/end cleanly as per the regional news slots' timings.

It doesn't help that the lack of regions on BBC One HD has dragged-on for about 94 years.

At least the period in the late-1990s/early-2000s when DSat BBC One was initially unable to have regional splits was fairly short, so the UK Today solution was only needed for a couple of years or so.

The red screen of death is there to encourage viewers to switch to SD for their local news, putting alternative programming in its place would undermine that process.