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I think what makes everything look all the more jarring is just how good sports news looks on the channel. Watching Sportsday right now - slick intro, varied presentation, good use of screens etc.

What’s the difference? Is sport better resourced? Surely workflows and staffing are just the same.

My understanding was always that Sport has a more limited gallery and have been doing autocue self-operation for a long time. But the dynamism differential is certainly marked - ever since they've moved to Salford, sports news has always gone a lot further pres-wise than they ever needed to.

On a side note, I've always wondered why they don't give Sportsday an airing on network BBC. Not just is there an increasing amount of spare time in the schedule, particularly on BBC Two, that could easily be filled by a daily 30' bulletin, but there's an absence of general sports news on the big five outside of breakfast and weekend bulletins and it could probably get quite a decent audience. It just seems like, considering the amount of effort the team clearly go to, it deserves a bigger profile than being a secondary function of the News channel.