[Stuart]

I wonder if the current/previous pokey studio was created in the first place out of existing space at the BBC Radio Jersey building (e.g. plasterboard walls erected to carve up part of the existing newsroom/office, or similar)?

In which case, add in factors such as the post-pandemic rise of working-from-home, and they may now need less office space than before, so could be carving things up differently to make a more spacious studio?

Maybe even one with enough room for the new set to have LED screen walls after all (allowing for things like minimum legal fire lane distance behind the LED walls, and the internal space of the set as seen on-air still allowing the cameras to not be too close to the faces of the LED screens). This could mean doing something similar to the new Sport/Breakfast set in Salford - i.e. not a physically walled studio as such, but the LED set walls and lighting rig simply being built in open newsroom space?

I doubt they'll be returning to more than just the 'cupboard under the stairs'.

They won't be getting LED screens as they take up too much space, and short of putting the camera in the car park, they'd be too close to them. 

The screens aren't as thin as people think, it's not like a TV in your home.  Aside from the fire lane, you also need decent space for maintenance access to all those 'electrickery' connections to servers/screens and the like behind them.

Actually, Rue, I think CI should stay where they are. It looks OK.