BBC Breakfast is getting a new state of the art studio, but the show’s iconic red couch remains
New dawn! BBC Breakfast presenters reveal ‘state-of-the-art’ studio after re-vamp – but the show’s iconic red sofa remains
The BBC Breakfast presenters have revealed the show is getting a makeover, with the team broadcasting from a brand new studio from Monday.
The daytime show’s hosts unveiled its first studio makeover in over a decade, with regular host Jon Kay posting a photo of himself and co-star Sally Nugent posing for a selfie in the state-of-the-art studio.
Captioning the image on Instagram, he said: ‘First glimpse of our new #bbcbreakfast studio. I can’t wait to share it with you on Monday.”
The new multi-purpose studio, which will be used from Monday, will be shared with BBC Sport in Salford’s Media City, with Kay saying it will be used for broadcasting ’20 hours a day’.
Jon Kay and co-host Sally Nugent pose in the new BBC Breakfast studio, the presenters will be the first to broadcast from it on Monday
Kay and Nugent will be the first to present the program of the new set, featuring new broadcast technologies such as high-tech graphics and three more cameras.
Nugent said: ‘We recently celebrated our 40th anniversary and this is a great gift to celebrate the occasion.’
The studio is in a larger space and retains the program’s red sofa, which will also be used by presenters Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt.
Kay said: ‘Our new studio is state of the art and we couldn’t be happier with it.
Down with the red…the former BBC breakfast set, which will no longer be used for the show from Monday
The new studio has technological improvements and includes a recording from MediaCityUk in Salford
“We look forward to offering audiences the same BBC breakfast they know and love, in a fresh new setting.”
The daily Sportsday programme, live bulletins for BBC One and BBC News and BBC iPlayer’s Football News Show are also broadcast from the site.
Multiple teams sharing the studio is part of the company’s move to “provide the best value for the audience.”
Presenters Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty in the new BBC Breakfast studio
The Breakfast team is on duty 20 hours a day and shares the studio with the Sports team, including BBC Sports reporter John Watson
Helen Brown, senior news editor for Sport, said: ‘The new studio is a brilliant update that will completely improve and revolutionize our output.
‘Showing the BBC’s original journalism, live action, talk points and human interest stories, Sportsday is one of the best performing programs on any news channel in the UK.’
Around 46 per cent of the BBC Breakfast staff moved to Manchester in 2012 when the program moved permanently to MediaCityUK, with Susannah Reid, now on Good Morning Britain, and the late Bill Turnbull presenting the first broadcast on 10 April that year.