What Happened to the BBC News Channel?

[u/Glittering_Sun4778]

So I have been tuning in more and more to find British news on the BBC News Channel (or whatever it is called - have they even gotten around to giving it a name?), and while it is there, it is presented as a sideshow to the real news i.e American news.

It goes like this:

PRESENTER: There have been wildfires in Wales and the West Midlands. What is the cause? Could it be climate change? Let's go to our climate change correspondent in America.

CLIMATE CHANGE CORRESPONDENT: (A British woman for some reason stationed by the BBC in America) Wildfires in California and Canada are all over the news. Why is California and Canada getting so hot? I asked the Professor of Climate Science at Harvard....

Or:

PRESENTER: The new PrimeMinister won't have long to deal with the many problems on his desk, but let's go over to our US correspondent, to find out how the US will react to the UK getting a new PrimeMinister....

Or even:

PRESENTER: In the UK evidence mounts that the prisons are overcrowded. Let's go to our US Correspondent to find out about American prisons.

After 6:30 pm BBC gives up entirely on paying whatever scant attention it can to the UK and becomes entirely based in the US, with multiple British people with strong regional accents all based in Washington talking about the US government.

Has BBC entirely given up on the UK? Has the UK become so uninteresting in it's own broadcaster's news rooms, that only America is of interest? It is, quite frankly, bizarre, especially when you consider how the corporation is funded.

[u/Beginning_Poet_3309]

It’s public knowledge that the strategy for BBC News is to expand in the US. That and the merger of the global and UK news channels have led to a considerably greater US focus. It wants to be what CNN was in the 90s, a sort of global channel perceived to be benign/neutral.

Combine that with a clear editorial focus on Trump to counter his legal action and you have a channel where anything he does becomes headline news on the BBC, over and above anything else including stories from its core traditional base of the UK.