Sian Lloyd did Breakfast this morning, but stayed til the end (Usually the Sunday female presenter disappears to get ready for Andrew Marr).. but then on Andrew Marr.. Naga Munchetty popped up at 9.02am with the news 'from London' as Marr introduced her.
The Majority of recent editions of Andrew Marr have had the news from London - Maxine Mawhinney & Riz Lateef have also done this recently.
Riz done the news last weekend from B, that was the first program though since summer which before that the bulletins came from Salford.
Sian Lloyd did Breakfast this morning, but stayed til the end (Usually the Sunday female presenter disappears to get ready for Andrew Marr).. but then on Andrew Marr.. Naga Munchetty popped up at 9.02am with the news 'from London' as Marr introduced her.
The Majority of recent editions of Andrew Marr have had the news from London - Maxine Mawhinney & Riz Lateef have also done this recently.
Riz done the news last weekend from B, that was the first program though since summer which before that the bulletins came from Salford.
Maxine did the last programme before the summer from B as well.
Possibly because they want somebody in B ready to take over if they lose the line from Scotland? Naga and Riz are certainly both used to presenting a more magazine show format, and I'm sure Maxine would be good at that kind of format too.
A London based presenter is generally used for the news summary when the Marr Show starts at 08:00 or 08:30. I believe it was 08:00 for Maxine as she had a very tight turnaround from the basement to studio E and tweeted that she has been invited to join the sofa for the ending but couldn't. I believe Riz did last week when the Great North Run meant the programme started at 08:30. In both cases I guess the reason is either because Salford can't transmit BBC Breakfast and the down the line point simultaneously or it would have too much impact on the programme.
As was said today they may have wanted someone who could keep the programme running if they lost the link to Edinburgh or perhaps logistically it was easier to use London and not Salford due to the transmission chain - if the programme was all going via the studio B gallery then adding the news via Salford may have complicated matters. I thought there seemed to be a small delay between London and Edinburgh.
I would be surprised if Salford couldn't do Breakfast and a DTL at the same time, I'm sure other regions have done live interviews with guests in Salford while NWT has been on. I imagine there will be occasions when a guest on the Breakfast sofa is also wanted by World News, so I'm sure the technical capability will be there.
Whether there are the staff to do both on a Sunday is another question.
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No, that's what Martine herself actually said...It was a quip on her own part...
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How come the BBC Building at Salford is so big? It only needs to fit BBC Breakfast, BBC Sport and Radio Manchester! Think how many different services the BBC Offers from London!
How come the BBC Building at Salford is so big? It only needs to fit BBC Breakfast, BBC Sport and Radio Manchester! Think how many different services the BBC Offers from London!
And Radio 5 Live and North West Tonight and BBC Children's and BBC Learning. And the departments you have mentioned already are not exactly small.