If Private Eye is right that the new BBC1 News set cost £15m, it's a mark of an organisation out of step with our times.
Even if it lasts for nine years (the length of time the bulletins have come from the newsroom-floor glass wall studio) it works out at over £4,500 a day. If it's still in use in 2031, that's four years beyond the current Charter, and Huw Edwards will be pushing 70.
It will have been signed off at the very top. Many regional studios are getting a revamp to 'fit in'. The two non-execs dealing with big finance cases are chairman Richard Sharp and Shirley Garrood; did they ask what other news organisations spend on new studios ? Did Tim Davie know the answer ?
About to flick the switch on the biggest upgrade of @BBCNews bulletins on @BBCOne in ten years. New tech, new look, familiar faces and traditional location reporting from the world over #bbcnewsten with @thehuwedwards
— Jonathan Munro (@jonathancmunro) June 13, 2022
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