[Mike]

It would be quite nice if someone designed a tower graphic template for the Breakfast bulletins so that they were co-branded consistently.

Well it seems EMT and some other regions have followed the same - so it must have come from the centre...

Note to BBC English Regions/Local/England - rather than slapping extra, thin text over the top of a generic graphic, why not issue a kit of parts or just a living loop for the towers for the region to insert it's standardised logo or programme legend above or below the breakfast logo. Otherwise what have you achieved? We know that the opt outs are part of breakfast, and we also know that the 3-5 minutes they are on air for are part of the wider strand.

My understanding is the new BBC Breakfast blobs are by the same folk who did the regional news title template, in fact probably far easier to just centrally render out a loop and let regions overlay their own branding - or provide a precomposed template of all the elements...