BBC News and BBC World to merge

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Another thing worth pointing out would be sports broadcasting rights. For example, if the BBC bulletin domestically is running a story about F1 or even Eurovision, they have the rights to rebroadcast that footage in the UK only. due to specific rights allowing this (the BBC take snippets of the Sky Sports F1 broadcast thats on Channel 406 on Sky to do this without consequence because the bbc would have an agreement with Sky for this], and Eurovision they have the rights in the uk anyway by being the principal uk broadcaster for it). But if you’re watching the same stories on a world news bulletin, f1 is just still images [either getty images or journalist stills] because they do not have the right to rebroadcast Sky’s content outside the UK and anything from Eurovision is curtailed to the EBU feed.

This is why I suspect we might be seeing an end to Sportsday (a BBC News 24 launch programme) when the two channels merge. I doubt they'll produce two sports bulletins, so imagine we'll just get ones that adhere to international rights protocols. To be honest, though, sport is the one area that the differences in UK/World news agenda priorities are significantly lower, so, other than the lack of moving images, I doubt it'll make much difference for audiences.

One thing I hope they bring from World is World Business Report in the back half hours maybe 05:30, 08:30, 11:30, 13:30, 16:30, 18:30, 20:30 & 22:30, after the network bulitens and 16:30 when European markets close. 08:30 & 20:30 extended ones like Business Edition/Business Live/Worklife

The general trend in World Business Report has been fewer and fewer bulletins over the last decade - both for costcutting reasons, but also because there is less demand for those types of market-oriented business programmes in certain markets these days.