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Will come. Later in the programme, these two men have made it through

to the run-off in the French presidential election. Shouldn't we

agree on how to pronounce their names?

First, two weeks since the breakfast programme took up their

new home in Salford. Some of viewers have objected to the look

of the programme's new studio. Others question the value and the

It is almost -- it is almost a decade since the idea since the new

location was decided on. But the transfer of the One Show has been

the biggest step yet. Around half of the breakfast team offered to

make the move but presenter's Sean Williams and Chris Holland's

decided to leave the programme. There were many objections voiced

It made possible that the colours and camera angles at not liked, but

viewers will have to get used to it. Is that a welcome and economical

devolution of an overly Metropolitan BBC? Or an extravagant

and it damaging example of political correctness?

I will be putting that to the man who oversaw Breakfast moved to

Salford, Adam Bullimore. Before that, let's hear the views of two

more few hours. Jonathan Evans and end Keith. First of all, end, what

do you make of the move of breakfast to Salford, and has it

affected your viewing? I think it was totally unnecessary. I think

the BBC is a national broadcaster and a think if it moved to a region

for its main output, it stands the risk -- it runs the risk of being a

regional broadcaster instead of a national broadcaster. How do you

think the move has affected Breakfast itself. I think the

studio set-up is rather cramped. It is not as pleasant as the London

set-up. Also, were the quality of presentation has declined. Do you

think that too many down the lines as opposed to it live guest makes a

difference? Yes, I do. Because when politicians were able to come into

the studio, it seemed much more immediate. The interviewers were

able to approach them in a much more direct way. Just then, what

have you made of the move? I would just agree with the last few were.

I think it is a bad mistake. I think London is a world centre, not

just an UK centre. I think the programme should be located in

London. Long-term, I think it will affect the quality of the programme.

I think all the news programmes should be consolidated in one

centre in London. I do think they should be in Manchester. You might

as well have put it in Edinburgh or in Dublin. It needs to be in London.

What do you think of the argument that the BBC is to metropolitan

biased and this is a move to recognise the rest of the country?

I don't agree with it comes to a programme, a news centric programme.

It should be located where the centre of the news is. London is a

worldwide centre, not just a UK centre. I think it has cost too

much money. It has been wasted. wide you think it has cost too

much? Why do think it is a waste? The BBC management made a big

mistake because they are trying to cut costs and at the same time,

they spend �200 million relocating to Manchester. They also spend �80

million on redundancies and retraining. They lost 54% of the

team for Breakfast. What is the point? It is just a political

gesture. End, do you miss the presenters? Yes, I think the

present presenter's are not as serious as she was on many

occasions. I heard her do some very good interviews which I have not

heard from the current team up with the exception of Charlie state and

Phil Turnbull. Thank you very much. Adam Bullimore is the deputy editor

of Breakfast. I know you are not responsible for the decision, but

at least in that physical terms, how well as the move on? I think it

has gone amazingly well. It is a hugely complex business moving a

three-hour network news programme a bike Breakfast 200 miles away from

the mother ship, if you like. And to be three weeks in and to have

had very few technical issues, to have had a clean programme and the

quality of the output we have had for this first few weeks for our

audience to have held up and stuck with us, I think we are really

pleased. What do you have to say though to viewers like we have just

heard? They say the move was not necessary and is probably costing

too much. Well, the move is part of a wider commitment by the BBC to

spread the value of the licence fee around the UK. We are now in the

centre of the UK, we are not just in the north of England. We think

we can make the breakfast that people know and love in Salford.

But you can't get the same quality of guests actually on the sofa. The

top politicians, the top waters. The UK is a London-based Society

and you inevitably have to do more down the line interviews, which

loses the sense of presence and intimacy. We have already had some

top guests on the sofa. But you won't get the same number. I think,

even when we were in west London, some top guest would not sit on a

sofa and we didn't down the line or in pre- recorded interviews. It is

early days. We have had some great guests so far and we will continue

to push for great guests. We reach 7 million people a day. Our

audience is a massive drop. this week, we have had the Leveson

Inquiry and the spin-offs of the problems faced by the Culture

Secretary. You would be able to get any of these people live in the

studio. A think the Leveson Inquiry is a particularly difficult story

to do in Salford. But the reality was, it is, that we would always

have done the Everson from outside the High Court where the inquiry is

happening. I think the politicians who are commenting would have

inevitably gone into the Westminster studio anyway. They

would have been down the line, even in Television Centre. Other viewers

have asked about travel costs. Who pays for the travel expenses?

I would say is that it doesn't matter if you are a top presenter

or a junior researcher on the programme, the relocation packages

available to staff at the same for everyone. But once that runs out,

they are responsible for their own Cup -- Travel? Yes. We have had a

lot of complaints about the set. One, it seems small. The camera

angles seemed to be in the presenter's face. People don't like

the colours. It is this a smaller studio then the Breakfast used to

appear from? Yes, it is, there is no getting away from that. The

studio we used to broadcast from is the news watch studio. But we think

we have got the space we need. You would expect some, it. People don't

like change to the look of a favourite programme. Those few

interactions came in the first 48 hours but after that, they have

almost dried up. Now people are talking about the stories. That is

what they have always talked about. We have made some changes, we have

been listening to the viewers. We have changed some of the tight

shorts that people had a problem with. I think debt the reality is,

we are still settling in to our surroundings and finding the best

angles and the best shots, and getting used to the environment.

Thank you very much. Time for a quick mention of last

weekend's French presidential election. The runner-up was... Here

is Michelle on the News at Ten. Exit polls say Nicolas Sarkozy

trails his challenger. But the official BBC pronunciation

is pronounced differently. That may not be to the liking of Steve

Pengelly, he emailed, can you please ask your reporters to stop

pronouncing Nicolas Sarkozy in a ridiculously comic French accent?

You might expect them to get the name of his talent to write.

We have been waiting in fact for the last half-hour to hear from the

victorious candidate in the first round of voting.