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Is there any reason why a couple of news channel hours couldn't come from Salford? Get the breakfast team to produce them if need be. Extend Breakfast for an hour on the NC if required. Though producing and presenting in different locations shouldn't be that hard to acheive surely. CNN for example regularly do it. I assume when Breakfast is news channel only due to sport it will come from Salford still
The chance of breaking, UK only news at weekend is relatively slim. My idea was only to take one or two World bulletins to give whoever is presenting a longer news channel shift a break (on a routine day)
Another option to give a NC presenter a break on a longer evening shift would be to use the BBC1 presenter for one hour on the news channel, say 8pm
Or indeed just incorporate the BBC1 bulletins into the NC shifts. Although what happens when everything moves to Broadcasting House. If the NC gets a newsroom set isn't there security issues which would require all BBC1 bulletins, including at weekends, to be from a more 'secure' studio?
Your weekend plan won't work as Breakfast in Salford will be 7-days a week (apparently) - so it's hard to see how that could work. And I'd be hesitant about merging any NC and WN shifts, even at weekends, as the potential breaking news dilemma would outweigh any savings. I think you'd be better off reorganising weekend shifts to allow some of the more familiar presenters - such as Maxine Mawhinney, Nick Owen, Clive Myrie and Tim Willcox - to present the main evening BBC 1 bulletins as part of the usual evening shifts. To me, that's where there's a waste.
Is there any reason why a couple of news channel hours couldn't come from Salford? Get the breakfast team to produce them if need be. Extend Breakfast for an hour on the NC if required. Though producing and presenting in different locations shouldn't be that hard to acheive surely. CNN for example regularly do it. I assume when Breakfast is news channel only due to sport it will come from Salford still
The chance of breaking, UK only news at weekend is relatively slim. My idea was only to take one or two World bulletins to give whoever is presenting a longer news channel shift a break (on a routine day)
Another option to give a NC presenter a break on a longer evening shift would be to use the BBC1 presenter for one hour on the news channel, say 8pm
Or indeed just incorporate the BBC1 bulletins into the NC shifts. Although what happens when everything moves to Broadcasting House. If the NC gets a newsroom set isn't there security issues which would require all BBC1 bulletins, including at weekends, to be from a more 'secure' studio?