The BBC’s lunchtime news will broadcast from Salford from Monday, becoming the first major daily network news bulletin to move out of London.
- BBC Breakfast presenter Sally Nugent will front the first edition.
- News programme extended to one hour with regional news embedded.
The BBC has revealed details of its new hour-long News at One, which is moving from London to Salford on Monday 3rd June.
The move was first announced last year by the BBC. However just days before the revamped News at One goes live, the broadcaster has revealed who will be presenting and how the format will change.
A pool of regular and well-known BBC News presenters will front the programme, including Ben Brown, Anna Foster, Tina Daheley plus BBC Breakfast regulars Jon Kay and Sally Nugent, with Nugent presenting the very first edition.
The programme will come from the Salford studio used by BBC Breakfast and Sportsday, pictured above.
Format changes
As part of the changes, the News at One will adopt a more magazine like presentation, with human interest stories shared with BBC Breakfast. The BBC also promises more time for analysis of the news.
Regional news will be embedded within the hour-long programme with the news where you are on-air at 1:35pm, before regional teams hand back to Salford for the remainder of the hour.
The programme will also be simulcast on the BBC News channel in the UK.
The News at One will be edited by BBC Breakfast editor Richard Frediani.
The move is part of an ongoing BBC project to move more of its output outside of London. The BBC’s Across The UK scheme has already seen numerous radio programmes move to either Salford or Birmingham.
On TV, BBC Breakfast was the first regular daily national news magazine programme to move out of London in 2012, but this is the first time one of the BBC’s main network news shows has made the move out of the capital. There are no plans to move the News at Six and Ten out of London.
By: Marc Thornham | Image: BBC