BBC News Channel General Discussion

Does this mean The Papers will now have different weekday and weekend start times?

Yes, The Papers will be at 10.40 on weekdays, and at 10.30 and 11.30 at the weekends.

WHAT? They're still doing 2 at weekends? Why?

I can understand Saturdays because the Sunday morning papers are bigger and have more in them, giving more room for discussion, but even then they already do a slot on a Sunday morning for the papers (if that's even still continuing?). But I can't understand the decision to keep doing 2 on a Sunday night.

Martine Croxall has tweeted that the reason for only having one outing for The Papers during the week is to make space for Newsnight to be repeated. So, I guess no Newsnight at the weekend means they can stick to two outings of The Papers. All sounds a bit wonky to me. I find it hard to imagine a queue of people clamouring for a repeat of NN.

And those wanting a repeat of Newsnight aren't going to want it immediately - it would be much better at 12.15am than 11.15pm.

And this smacks of "Not Going to Work" to me-They really need to stop addressing Breaking News as a cost! In Short this tinkering of the schedule (and the last tinkering of the schedule to add Victoria Derbyshire after Easter last year) just has not (and will not) worked and this Newsnight repeat just will not work if it goes within the next few years-and if they want to make The Papers consistant on Weekdays they should have made it 10:30-11:00 and have Sportsday 6:30-7:00

And my opition hasn't changed on the Victoria Derbyshire progamme-It is just not right for the News Channel really and i'm prepared to sit it out for the axe announcement no matter how long it takes.

Outside Source doesn't seem too bad but it is just too gimmickry for my liking

In short, if Ain't (or wasn't) broke don't fix it.

To flip the coin slightly, the only change that has worked for me is Business Live because it is on at the time the London markets have opened-I'm on the fence til Monday on Newsroom Live as the question that needs answering here is, is it another Outside Source or just an annoying rebrand (i think the latter.)

I don't think there was any suggestion that it was broke. It is all to save money.

Seriously what planet are you living on?
BBC News budget is being cut by 80m. A news channel with a 1% audience share is clearly not top priority.
Be careful what you wish for. Derbyshire and the Outside Source simulcast will be axed when the entire channel is.

I do think the way the BBC have to look at it is effectively closing the News channel and launching a new news channel with a significantly reduced budget - but probably a budget no worse than what ITV had over a decade ago. It's the chopping and changing which isn't really working at the moment as it's left the channel feeling very disjointed, whilst some of the changes are questionable in terms of savings - I don't think these late night changes will be saving anything significant, whilst Victoria Derbyshire in the morning surely is more expensive than what it replaced.

I think they'd have been better off keeping the 8.30am shift (perhaps moved to start after Breakfast) and then simulcast either the Daily Politics or GMT. Simulcasting Newsday or airing Today in Parliament in the 11pm hour probably a better option than the Newsnight repeat too.

Depends how much BBC Two are paying towards it. Remember the VD show isn't just there to fill up the budget constrained news channel schedule, it's doing the same job on BBC Two as well.

I believe Victoria Derbyshire (programme) is a set budget possibly combining News Channel & BBC Two (maybe higher but its fixed) whereas the news channel perhaps is too loose with its money & cannot fix a budget which is smaller.