[interestednovice]

wouldn't Salford continuity in primetime at least be done away from the news gallery now they have a dedicated announcer for the North?

Don’t forget, BBC One (Network) North is actually a hot standby for BBC One ( Network) London and has to be ready to go out UK-wide at a moment’s notice. Therefore, it wouldn’t make sense to turn it into a feed used for introducing North West Tonight - other Northern regions have to opt out of it to do their own announcements and, if their opt failed, instead of a generic network announcement, viewers elsewhere would get a potentially confusing announcement.

It does make more sense for the Salford news team to handle NW regional announcements just as other regions do.

It equally makes sense to simplify their setup temporarily whilst work on their new studio is ongoing. After all, very few viewers would notice a loss of regional continuity at all - and even fewer would detect the difference between regional (but generic) announcements and fully-personalised regional announcements.

I got used to watching BBC One HD for years before it was regionalised and hardly felt I was “missing out” on regional announcements!