[Jon]

Sportday doesn't necessarily need to be live. It could be recorded at 17:30, after all ITV1 gets away with recording some of their regional evening bulletins where they share a studio.

Alternatively use the existing space if they need to do it live. It's a News Channel programme, so I would expect NWT to take precedence.

NWT certainly need to be out of that current studio. It's looking rather tired now, and the design has never matched the style of any of the other regions.

They really couldn’t record a sports programme an hour earlier unless you never want to update viewers of live scores that could be happening at that time. “England are playing in the World Cup right, the score an hour ago was 0-0, we’ve now idea if they’re in the next round”, wouldn’t sound good. Really it’s the sort of programme that could come from any space though but I imagine it’s very much a studio that’s intended for BBC Sport use and it’s probably a bit of a compromise to allow Breakfast to use it in the first place.

The current studio should be fine for North West Tonight it just needs a new set to bring it in line. It just seems that there is an opportunity that exists for Breakfast for a better space without taking much away from sport.