[Roger Darthwell]

Exactly, there is a 24/7 international newsgathering operation across the globe. But it feeds into a single “base” which is NBH in London. That’s logical and the only real way to run a news organisation - a single major HQ newsgathering “base”.

It is logical, and less costly, to have your programme teams based in the same physical location and produce your news programmes there.

As others have said, it makes little difference on screen (although actually small changes such as being able to more easily present on location at iconic places in London may be possible with a London-based programme, which would be a small positive impact) where the programme comes from, so if it saves money it makes sense to base it in London.

Nobody has presented a reasoned argument to refute that logic, in my view. I never said that London was the centre of the universe, that is others putting words in my mouth. But clearly, it is our capital city. Most global broadcasters present the news from their capital city. It’s the standard, because it’s logical.

Even the “reaching for examples” cases brought up in the thread don’t really follow. The supposed-regional-champion TF1 bulletin still comes from Paris which is actually my whole point - you don’t need to move a programme to make it “not capital city centric” (and, by the way, billboards of a presenter are a common French ad technique which you see all the time); Australia is a very unusual country as I outlined before and I can’t think of any other examples anywhere else in the word.

Breakfast coming from Salford is like TF1 presenting their morning news from Rouen. It would be very strange indeed.

Even more so when the only studio available in that location, apparently, is basically a cupboard.

Another example like Australia could be Canada as well, you made the example of ABC News (Australia) programmes being presented from all over the country, and I mean the CBC's main evening news programme, called The National is hosted from Toronto during the week and from Vancouver during weekends, and CBC News as a whole has programmes coming from Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal (in case of Radio-Canada) and Halifax, and just like Australia, Canada is also a big and varied country