BBC News at One / Six or Ten to be axed?

It is very concerning.

I'd be more concerned about what this story is hiding. While everyone is distracted taking about how the six o'clock news can't be touched, it's easy to drop in reductions to other content that would also normally get people complaining.

I've just read the entire article. She's lost her mind if she thinks those who pay the licence fee, and especially the older generations who do sit down to watch the BBC's main bulletins and who have been forced to pay the fee will be content with this.

If that's not playing to the crowd, then I don't know what is.

Why even do an interview with the BBC-bashing Torygraph in the first place, and then even worse, to come out with exactly what they, and the other anti-BBC rags wanted to hear.

Four words to this-Not, Going, to, Happen-i'm pretty sure OfCom will have something to say about this since it would surely be a breach of their rules!

Being cynical this smells rather like a potential future cost cutting to BBC News being given an advance PR spin. An excuse to fully merge the News channel with World news, and also axe those who only present BBC One bulletins to save a money.

Whilst I think in a decades time there will probably be fewer linear TV channels I believe appointment to view television will still have a place, and there will still be a number of linear TV channels providing this service. It's slightly ironic that in recent years BBC One and Two have been showing more news, albeit by simulcasting the News Channel. I imagine that the News at Six is watched by families wanting to find out what's happened during the day, which the News at Ten provides a round-up of the day.

I imagine that the BBC News at One is most at risk of being axed (subject to political pressure). I wonder if the threat of axing bulletins might make it easier to eventually axe the specific newsreaders for the bulletin, and instead use whoever's doing the rest of the News Channel shift. I think this has already happened at weekends, and I suspect will happen with the News at One if it hasn't already. This would allow the BBC to appear to be giving into public/political pressure whilst slipping in a few more cost savings.

I have to ask if this is some kind of response to the survey criticising the BBC's impartiality as well as the backlash over the licence fee. If it is then its a huge passive-aggressive temper tantrum.

Ditch the six, keep the one and ten.

We aren't budget managers - everyone is going to disagree and nobody here knows the financial implications of each programme to the pound.. can we please not go down this route?

Why do you suggest ditching the six?

It won’t happen, there would be a survey that would recognise that axing network bulletins would reduce people’s consumption of BBC Newsm therefore the plans won’t go any further.

Older viewers would get their news from a different channel, younger viewers would get their news from their echo chamber social media feed, very few would voluntarily seek out the news channel

This woman is just abysmal I’m afraid. Should have resigned over the Cliff Richard debacle rather than doubling and tripling-down and haemorrhaging hundreds of thousands of pounds of our money.

Also what would they show at 6pm anyway?