[DTV]

This would certainly be an interesting move

Wouldn't be that surprising - once you've already got the infrastructure and production teams in place, extending the news is pretty much as close to free television as you can get. If they go down this route, it would easily allow them to reduce their daytime commissioning and Breakfast to 09:30 isn't without precedent (happened for several months in 2004 after Kilroy was axed). An hour-long News at One would also allow them to 'make up' for the slight reduction in UK content on the News channel and, if there were any remaining gaps in the daytime schedule, the team could surely add in a short mid-afternoon bulletin. 

Would also be nice to see the One get its own format back, often feels a bit like a rehearsal for the Six these days. Indeed, if they ever went down the merging the Ten and Newsnight route, having three 'newshours' with different focuses would be quite a smart way of doing things - something like, 'the latest on stories across the UK' at One, 'the stories that matter to you' at Six and 'reporting and analysis on the main UK and world news' at Ten.

Moving it to Salford is a bit of a curveball, though I'd assume it'd come from the new Breakfast/Sport newsroom set - which'd be nice. And definitely better to have an out of London news bulletin in a proper studio than milling around on some rooftop or standing in the middle of an empty, colourless atrium.