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If everyone currently on the News at One also cover the other BBC One bulletins, and are staying on in those roles, what exactly is the cost saving of moving to Salford and employing additional staff to cover the programme? Even if there are overtime arrangements or something in place for the current team to cover the additional hours, surely those are just being transferred to those on Breakfast now also covering a bulletin several hours after Breakfast comes off air?

Going back a couple of years the News at One was a News Channel production made by the News Channel team. When they announced the changes to the News Channel and the 1 moved to B it was incorporated back to the bulletin teams. I don't believe there was any mass hiring or redeployment at that time to the News at 1 team.

The changes to the 1 are part of the expansion of Breakfast which did create some additional roles in Salford to share across both outputs, but the changes although creating a bigger expense in Salford actually would save the BBC money as they are producing an additional half hour of news per day which means they don't have to commission a long running 30 minute programme with associated production costs to fill that time on BBC 1, something which I am sure has contributed to the demise of doctors.
In addition an hour long 1 also removes the 15 minute section after the lunchtime sports day on the news channel which always felt a bit disjointed.