There are increasingly digital-broadcast hybrids offering rolling news. The BBC’s old-fashioned News 24 model needs to forge a clear identity to surviveThere’s a twilight feel to the BBC News Channel. First,it stands high on the list of potential cuts as licence fee depredations commence to bite. Then it’s supposedly saved because doing the same thing online wouldn’t save much money. Whereupon the chair of the BBC Trust appears on Marr and refuses to rule anything out, or in, or which sets the hares running again.
And now the channel’s head weighs in with a series of changes – repeating Newsnight at 11.15pm for young viewers just back from the wine bar; devoting a mid-evening hour to reports from the regions; making Hardtalk much harder to find – that he thinks provides “further evidence of how we are continuing to look for ways to develop the channel schedule in an increasingly competitive marketplace for news”.
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Source: theguardian.com