paul, many licence fee payers who ve long been watchers of the news channel are really unhappy that they no longer get a dedicated uk bbc news service. and it s not like you can use as boring right now. are you going to have to rethink this? well, again, there s a couple of things there. as you said at the beginning, the channel operates in a couple of ways. there s a combined feed when it s the same content, it s going out to the world and to the uk. but we also have periods when the feed is separate as well with a global feed and a uk feed. and so obviously then that is very uk facing. we also have the ability to break stories out and spend more time on on a big uk story through the day. for example, when those terrible events in nottingham occurred a couple of weeks ago and we were able to spend the whole day covering those events for uk audiences. and it s interesting because we ve just run some audience an audience survey, which is just run by our audience team which hasjust come
phone in or even participate, then i go to the radio and television news and bbc news is a particular medium which is important for a range of things. i don t understand why are you doing it? is it cost saving? if so, just seems to be misplaced. the effect of it is that i, and i suspect many others, migrate to another news medium. and that s sky news. on the point mentioned by sheryl mentioned. they re about the loss of presenters such as anita mcvey and martine croxall. we asked the bbc about their status and that of other female presenters all over 45 who haven t appeared on the news channel since march. the bbc told us we value all of our staff, but we do not comment on individual hr matters. well, let s talk now to paul royle, who is in charge of the news channel.
paul, let s deal with that issue. the contrasting coverage of the acker one and the sinking of the migrant boat of the met between last week in which five or 600 people are believed dead. many viewers believe that they got that balance wrong and also that there was something ethically distasteful about that alleged in balance. what you say? obviously titan what happened has been the dominant new story over the last few days and there has been a lot of coverage and there has been a huge audience engagement with that story. it would be wrong to say that bbc news was not covering extensively what happened to the mediterranean a week ago. we were in kalamata reporting live and extensively from there. we had a piece from pakistan s ministerjust last night going to wind the
first thing in the morning then nicky campbell s show is already on the radio. it s already on bbc too. why isn t the news channel showing the bbc news output going out across the world? because that would be a real choice for viewers, wouldn t it, paul? the nicky campbell show takes uk viewers to the heart of talking points every morning, and these talking points are based in news stories. obviously there s news headlines and updates in the nicky campbell show and headlines that run across the bottom of the screen. and of course, as you ve seen on those mornings, when perhaps there is a clash, whether there is a big news story oi’ a press conference. for example, earlier in the week when the prime minister and ukraine s president were speaking at the uk the ukraine conference in london, we ran that news conference instead of nicky campbell. so we re flexible as well. but the programme takes us to people and places and talking points which we think are really valuable to the channe
verified live, the daily global and the context. our viewers are saying they re alljust news, they re not unique programming. what s the point of this branding? well, obviously, we ve only launched that branding fairly recently. the channel isn t in its new format, even even three months old. and so to take verified live, for example, that programme has a relationship with bbc verify, which is the new team and hub that we ve set up in the newsroom, which is going deeper behind stories and checking stories out in a more forensic and data led and analytical way. and so, for example, we make space every day to make sure we feature content and analysis from bbc verify. so that s a way in which that programme is forging its own identity. we re going to pause therejust for a moment, paul, to look at the content of the news on the channel, the programming and the international versus the uk focus. so despite that separate stream for uk viewers at certain times of the day, most of the output i