Idea for the news c

BBC news channel has continuing issues with budget etc, and trying to provide a full news service for the UK while also relying on world news.

BBC has a large resource to hand, its local news rooms. Could the BBC utilise the local news rooms to provide the evening and part of the overnight schedules?

Surly manchester could do 8-10pm, then maybe the Brum team could provide 11pm?

Yes, because having a channel one from multiple locations is much cheaper than having it come from one.

Staff are already there in the local buildings?

That's exactly what CBC Newsworld in Canada did when it launched in 1989 -- but I believe that the arrangement was abandoned as a cost-saving measure because it's still cheaper to do everything from a central location.

Here's the launch of CBC Newsworld, which includes an explanation of their multi-city arrangement:

Oh yes, I really want the News Channel to come from multiple regional sites with varying types of old kit producing the output.

The News Nationwide feature should show you why that is a non-starter.

I'm sure someone will be along shortly to post an entire essay as to why this won't work but frankly, this is by far the stupidest idea I have seen mentioned on this forum. As seen on various occasions when regional stories have broken during the late evening regions are running on skeleton staff during the later evening and in many cases probably have absolutely nobody on duty by 23:00. This is before considering that regional BBC newsrooms are not exactly overflowing with resources at any time of day or that some regions have few journalists with any real experience of long-form news presentation nor many producers or camera operators with any experience in rolling news and even in those regions that do such individuals would almost certainly expect additional compensation for providing NC programming.

Not all Mancunians are surly.

I like how some people are to be fair bad mouthing certain local news room. Not all news teams are that bad surly, if that is the case the whole lot of bbc local news should be scrapped.

I thought this was a nice simple idea but it's clear there is distrust with local news team. There must be some good ones? Ie suggest manchester and brum, which in my book are some of finest BBC local news teams, It wasn't let get plymouth to do it.

I have to agree. When BBC Look North's late bulletin has a link to Sheffield for example there are only a handful of staff there. BBC Radio Sheffield simulcasts with Leeds:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07jwhkk

Once the 6:30 has finished, the regions probably only have about half a dozen people on duty, not enough to run a rolling news channel

No. They'd be more worthwhile showing old Ceefax pages.

Literally nobody has said anything like that.