Shall we open a book then on when Breakfast will return to London due to further cost savings and integrating Breakfast with the BBC News team?
It's so ironic that with all these shows moving to Salford to make the BBC less London centric the BBC are doing as much as possible to ensure viewers don't notice the difference. This generic design is long due the axe and the new studio just looks like a step back to the current one - funny isn't it how it just looks like a cheap regional rip off of the national look!
If you're going to the effort of relocating everyone a few hundred miles up the M6 at least take advantage of the change and make everything feel fresh. Even from the snippets we've seen from Broadcasting House it appears that they'll be very little evolution of the current look when the BBC moves there.
Great points. I thought these big moves will be revolutionary in terms of overall look but it's not the case at all.
Problem is, the BBC has never really led the way with News and TV presentation since the mid to late 90s. They seem to like seeing how other broadcasters evolve their product and if succesful, will then make changes to their own output (understandable to one extent, extremely old fashioned, running scared and dated to another). The BBC (especially News) seem to be very scared of any form of dramatic change or revolution in any product, set or presentation because they will lose viewers, even though they know deep down, that people will watch because 'it's the BBC' and they will always have loyal viewers. There will come a time when this isn't the case no doubt anymore.
Remember when the BBC revamped their weather graphics some years back? The storm in a tea cup that insued there for a week or so, it died down and no one complained anymore.
I totally understand that there is only a certain amount you can do to a Breakfast programme or News TV channel in terms of freshening a look and keeping people watching. There are however things that do worry me within the BBC, mainly that the news and breakfast side of output is going to get stuck in a very 'Radio 1' scenario where the output gets incredibly stale, audience figures drop and individuals are brought in to make the BBC News seem 'young again' and it being too late along the line.
I have many times come on this forum as many know to state that presenters 'could stand up to present the first story on the news channel, much like World do' not necessarilly to say to the viewer 'oh look I'm standing up'... just to give the light and shade that a news channel needs.
This is the Breakfast thread mind you, and I must say that I'm looking forward to see how the gallery team/directors utilise the cameras/shots etc in Salford during Breakfast. I noticed during the final week or so, of Breakfast coming from TC7, we had some very nice camera work etc - BUT, this only happened during the last week of being at
TVC. I, like most will be up in a couple of mornings time to see Breakfast coming from its new home... if I don't like it, I'll just switch over - thing is, the set and look is so similar to the Barcos in TC7 - most of the general public won't even notice the change anyway (hence the 'not making a big deal on screen about the move).
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