Bbc Breakfast News

[HPSauce]

Almost without exception, whenever BBC Breakfast News interviews somebody, the interviewee is in the BBC's London studio, so clearly people have no desire to travel to Manchester to be interviewed.

This begs the question, was moving our state broadcaster away from our capital a folly?

[DTCwordfan]

Hi Sibs - just got to be moving and back on in an hour..... x

[Gromit]

Another correction. The BBC made broadcasts from Manchester in the 1930s, opening its first studio there in the 1950s.

[Gromit]

HPSauce.

It may be a surprise to you, but not everyone important, interesting or successful live and work in London. There isn't a good reason why Match of the Day has to be broadcast from London. The North West of England has more than its fair share of successful Premier League teams. Broadcasting MotD from Manchester makes perfect sense.

The BBC Breakfast is just a show. The centre of the BBCs News operation is in London, and rightly so.

[Sharingan]

I'm amazed anyone can fight their way through the packs of rabid whippets and piles of discarded clogs you obviously think litter the streets of the north HPSauce.

[jno]

the people they were interviewing were quite happy to travel to West London

They were not. They liked going to Oxford Circus but demanded to be ferried to Shepherd's Wilderness, and the BBC's taxi bill soared. But there's no reason these days why they can't be in a London studio (if they're Londoners, and I'm told not everyone is) and the interviewer in Salford.

[jno]

Sharingan, I'm surprised they don't get David Attenborough to do a series about it

[woofgang]

Oh Wells, its lovely there, I would move back in a heartbeat....

[Sharingan]

Probably deemed too dangerous Jno, what with all the wode covered natives and alien foodstuffs like lardy cake. It'd be a shame to lose our national treasure this late in the day by sending him somewhere so far in the hinterlands ;/

[jno]

true, Sharingan, maybe they'd be better doing a history programme with Dan Cruickshank touring the mud huts and interpreting the primitive tribal behavioural rites.

[Gromit]

HPSauce

The programme is called BBC Breakfast not BBC Breakfast News. It is a magazine show rather than a flagship news programme. They may interview with links to London and other parts of the UK, but that is nothing new.

I have no idea how old you are, but the BBC used to broadcast a magazine current affairs programme called 'Nationwide'. The whole premise of the show was to link up all the BBC studios from all over the country to make an all Britain current affairs show.

They have not moved the state broadcaster away from the Capital. They have moved a few programmes and one radio station. Broadcasting House has had a massive investment and is now the 21st Century, state of the art facility the Capital deserves. And those wise bods have done that without ignoring the regions.

[Gromit]

Yer havin a larf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyPOb-cRv1I&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[jake-the-peg]

For those of you interested in the facts here's the summary and link to the report on the BBC's move from the National Audit office

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/news/press_releases/2013/nao_salford.html

For those of you that aren't do continue spouting in that it was a pointless waste of money based on - well whatever you're basing it on I really can't tell

[FredPuli43]

It's not a matter of auditing for the BBC, it's a matter of culture, dontchya know. We have family in the Trough of Bowland, near Preston. Our daughter says she doesn't like going there because she doesn't understand them ! I'm sure there's a grain, maybe a peck, of truth in that LOL

[Gromit]

Fred,

Subtitles are available on digital tellys.

[jno]

subtitles are imperfect

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2047283/Deaf-viewers-complain-standard-BBC-subtitles.html

Apologies for the Mail link (which inevitably means it's all about the BBC) but the moment of violence for the Queen Mother, and people wearing puppies for Remembrance Day...

[jno]

that Milligan clip was brilliant

[mikey4444]

The move was to save costs, something we should be grateful for.

Not sure what the problem is ? Isn't that how TV broadcast companies work these days, by using long-distance video links links. ?