(14-07-2022, 04:09 PM)Mr Q Wrote: This all sounds pretty sensible and hard to object to. It'll be a world news channel with opt-outs for UK viewers -- eg. for domestic breaking news, and also (some?) sports bulletins. Reading between the lines, I expect at least some of the UK breaking news will be handled by crossing to Five Live, with radio studios set up for TV. The upshot is less duplication of effort/resources across the BBC.
While there's talk of a new channel here, I think viewers will see much the same as what they do today -- with UK viewers getting more radio simulcasts. The bigger change looks to be structural/organisational (eg. the breaking news unit), with perhaps a greater focus on online delivery over linear TV.
In terms of how the consultations play out, it wouldn't surprise me if the end result is more London-based than proposed -- it's hardly popular from an industrial relations perspective to cut positions in the UK, only to hire more people in Washington. I can see that being a place to give ground, while the broad thrust of the changes is retained.
Yep, for all the catastrophising from some, the changes are not especially radical and much better for both sets of viewers than I had feared. BBC World News is basically staying as is, except being renamed BBC News with longer presenting shifts - including extended shifts from Washington and Singapore. I imagine it'll be London-based from morning (05:00 or 08:00) to Outside Source (which I suspect will remain due to the popularity of its relaunched format).
Though not initially, it sounds like the long-term plan for the UK version is to take televised radio simulcasts for many of the hours that are currently independent from BBC One and BBC World News. Nicky Campbell (09:00-11:00) is the starting point, but I suspect that other Radio 5 Live news-oriented shifts are contenders, as well as possibly the PM programme on Radio 4. I also imagine that the radio studios for these simulcasts will be done up in a similar manner to LBC's studios. There will also be the ability to opt-out for live events such as press conferences, speeches and parliament, which will be introduced by either a radio presenter or from a CSO studio.