BBC Breakfast

Yes, especially as when those studios were opened in the late eighties, Question Time wasn't the continuous roadshow it was now, up until about twenty years ago it would only go to a different city once a month or so, and the rest of the time it would be in London. So you wouldn't open a studio based on that as you'd get in once a year if that.

Newcastle did host quite a few shows when it opened, late eighties kids quiz Knock Knock came from there, and I've got some Radio Times from the late eighties where they talk about some episodes of Jackanory being filmed there, so there was a genuine attempt to use it. But it's also worth pointing out that when those studios were being built, it was still just the era when the regions made many other types of programmes and so they would need studios as well, Leeds would make Gardeners Direct Line for example and there were other chat and entertainment shows made for regional consumption, because they still had the old BBC1 primetime slots.

But then we had the Centres Of Excellence where only Bristol, Manchester and Birmingham made network programmes, and all the regional opt-outs moved to BBC2 and were all current affairs and documentaries, which didn't need studio space - so there was no need to have a big studio when all they were doing from a studio was the news.

Though some regions continued to use their studios for the BBC Two Current Affairs slots. BBC East certainly used to shoot links for their current affairs show in studio sometimes, and would use it for wider interview stuff too.

Incidentally I think I saw on Twitter that See Hear was using a slightly redressed regional Politics Show set for a debate, probably Bristol. I think it was a one off before the referendum or last year's election.

What are the 'rights reasons' that prevent Breakfast being uploaded to iPlayer? Seems pretty strange that over three hours of BBC One content every day shouldn't be available on catch up, even if just for 24 hours like the other network bulletins. Despite having a vastly inferior platform ITV do at least get their breakfast programmes on demand, and for 7 days at that.

Well, yes, they would have the regional political shows. But nothing that would be any more complex than talking heads that couldn't be done in a Pres-style studio, rather than stuff with performances and a studio audience and so on.



Could be loads of things - sports footage, film clips, music clips. Easier just to err on the side of caution.

Anyway, never mind this, what about Jon Kay's beard, then?

Or it could be the BBC1 network sustaining feed?

I think it really suits him!

I'm only guessing that they may have decided not to iplayer the programme as news events quickly need updating plus the showbiz promo stuff may have useage restrictions.

The Bristol studio has also been used for Winterwatch relatively recently (in that case, it was a redressed Points West set).

I am not a regular BBC Breakfast viewer, I don't see how this programme is more popular than GMB, it's so dull, I tuned in this morning, turned it over within 2 minutes, both the presenters had a boring tone, the female presenter sounded very unprofessional, whilst the male presenter was very dull.

Don't think I'll be tuning in again.

This was perhaps not the morning for you to tune in with two relief presenters sitting in. Roger Johnson is indeed very boring in my opinion, but I don't see your problem with Steph McGovern - I hope you don't describe her as "unprofessional" because she has a northern accent.

No not at all, I thought the male host was Dan walker, I must have got confused slightly