Why does breakfast have it's orange Graphics at it's studio during the week, but at the weekend go into a BBC News studio (not sure which one it is) with a BBC News DOG but BBC Breakfasts Graphics?
What happens in Breakfasts studio during the weekends?
Nothing happens - it's just that it's not cost effective to pay aloada people to shift some set around on a Saturday and Sunday morning and since N8 (News 24 studio) is already there waiting to be used then why not use it?
It would be a lot easier for it to be more consistent if the BBC News 24 studio was more versatile. Alas it isn't and until the news moves to Broadcasting House it will probably stay this way.
No-one is in N6 on weekend mornings, which is why it is more cost-effective to use News 24's desk instead of paying for another N6 crew for weekend mornings.
I do agree that the weekend graphics are horrible. Surely it couldn't be too hard to create a special set of
Breakfast
graphics for VizRT?
Don't forget that Breakfast Time and Breakfast News were never usually broadcast at weekends in the days before the joint service that is shared by BBC One and BBC News 24 (which started when the show was rebranded as simply Breakfast - think this was sometime in 2000 when BBC One News also went widescreen?) Occasionally Breakfast output appeared at weekends (I think there was a Breakfast Time to report on the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster on a Saturday morning?)
Prior this there was either no shows broadcast 0600-0900, other shows like programmes from the OU, or latterly News 24 output (incorporating specifically made shows under the Weekend 24 umbrella) instead. Weekdays News 24 used to have its own breakfast programme, running parallel to Breakfast News on BBC One.
It isn't a case of the BBC saving money by not using a different studio, it is more a case of them branding the existing weekend service provided by News 24 more consistently across the week with the resources available.