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I’m always reminded of this report from 2010 which suggests that NWT should’ve been housed on the ground floor where Sport eventually went, but that did not happen. I believe this report was from before it was confirmed Breakfast would move to Salford. I would hazard a guess that altered their plans for the use of the studio space.

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I can tolerate the current studio for NWT, it works fine for regional news, but it’s underwhelming for a national breakfast programme. Hopefully the new set up will look more prominent come Monday morning.

North West were supposed to be in a studio on the ground floor when they moved to MediaCity, in fact in the space where the old BBC tours ended up being based. 
The Breakfast move to Salford was quite a late addition to the MediaCity project. Their editor at the time was worried about having people in the background while the programme was on-air. The initial intention was to have the NW/Breakfast studio with a window into the outside space, much like This Morning in Liverpool. Due to the editor’s concerns, the studio got moved to the second floor.

As part of this project the gallery that controls SQ2 has been refreshed and upgraded. From Monday it will control the new combined Breakfast/Sport studio and SQ2 for NW. The ground floor sport gallery has also been upgraded to for the new combined studio.