[Keith]

Personally I'm not sure what the benefit of extending Breakfast to 9.30am would really be.  On the BBC News (channel) and BBC Two currently a simulcast of 5Live commences at 9am.  Therefore 'UK only' content is already being shown on the News channel, so it wouldn't make any difference to any quotas.

The only benefit in doing this would be **IF** they were considering axing the 5Live simulcast on the News channel, but perhaps retaining it for BBC Two.  In that case extending Breakfast until 9.30am would make sense to retain some 'UK only' hours.  Arguably this would provide an improvement for UK viewers.

I'd have thought though there might be a case for doing the opposite and reducing Breakfast's hours so that it finishes at 9am on weekdays, and extending Morning Live to an hour time slot.  I'm guessing they may be looking at ways to cut costs, by reducing the amount of daytime TV programmes shown.

With regards to extending the News at One I'd imagine that they'd look at 1-1.45pm national news.  Then from 1.45pm having the nations/regions news on BBC One and a sports bulletin on the news channel.  I guess since the news channels were merged it's become more noticeable there only being a half hour UK focused bulletin before returning to joint coverage from studio C.