During February of this year, NHK announced a schedule change in its channels from next week ahead of the merger of its satellite channels, BS1 and BS Premium, the latter of which airs dramas and cultural programming, into BS2K from 1st December following the decrease of its license fee.
One action is Catch! Sekai no Top News (which is mentioned in my previous post) will move from 8am on BS1 to its flasghip channel General TV at 10.05am. As a result, a World News, a program that is similar to SBS WorldWatch, bulletin will air in its place from that time.
The broadcaster also removes its 5am bulletin on Tuesday to Friday, but not on Saturday.
Another move is the merger of two of World News’ bulletins, World News Asia (which airs updated reports from KBS, Al Jazeera Arabic and CCTV) and World News America (which airs ABC America’s This Week on Mondays and PBS NewsHour and ABC’s Nightline from Tuesdays to Fridays) into one program, with Nightline no longer airing.
Update: The working title ‘NHK BS2K’ is now confirmed to be just ‘NHK BS’.