BBC’s live Election coverage still going at 4am local time
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How would you suggest it’s funded?
You don’t have to pay it.
She signed off at 6am for Breakfast, then daytime continues until 7.30pm, followed by Question Time.
She signed off at 6am after an all-nighter, handing over to Breakfast, but saying she’ll be back on air again at 2pm!
BBC News was dropped from Greek TV, in favour of ERT’s own international channel, Cosmos.
ERT Cosmos itself replaced ERT World on overseas satellites
It is sad, when you watch the feed for a few hours in the background, they already have quite long shifts, but somehow still so many senior talents on their books.
They’re all rolling their own autocue for standard bulletins and you can hear them clicking it.
Content already comes across clunky even when they’ve tried to adjust to previous cutbacks. Can’t imagine it will get better from that sense moving forward…
Its hard to see the current model changing - moving to a similar funding model that is used by the ABC (and retaining the BBC’s current funding) would be incredibly troublesome for a variety of reasons.
This report - https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-8101/CBP-8101.pdf - has some interesting stats about the fee.
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So the times I mistakenly said it was on Foxtel was just foreshadowing.
After Arsenal’s win for the first time in 22 years, many fans took to BBC News to celebrate their win.
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not on BINGE as yet.
And pretty certain it’s not in HD on Foxtel. It is on Fetch.
C’mon Foxtel. It’s 2026!
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I may be late to the game here but I just found BBC News channel on Samsung TV. Good to see!
I wouldn’t apologise to Nigel. 
Sounds like a Freudian slip
BBC to cut hundreds of jobs in Britain in news division downsize, FT reports
Britain’s BBC is set to cut hundreds of jobs across its core news division next week in the first part of its downsizing, the Financial Times reported on Monday, citing people close to the situation.
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