31-05-2024, 02:32 PM
(31-05-2024, 02:04 PM)South Wrote: 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.
I’m not convinced Breakfast needed much greater resources to be extended by another 15 minutes, and I’m also not sure why an hour-long News at One (which again is only 10-12 minutes longer than before) needed to come from Salford to achieve that?
The move to Salford feels more like a quota exercise for out-of-London programming (as happened with Breakfast’s move to Salford) than about costs savings, as has been suggested here for some weeks now. Especially with Birmingham-produced Doctors ending later this year, moving 45-50 minutes of news to Salford makes things look less London-centric on paper.