BBC Olympic Breakfast

Story I heard (the exact source has evaporated in the mists of time) was that as a delegation was looking at the space - which would have had a clearer view to the windows to the plaza - to site the Breakfast studio/presentation area was planned to be, a couple of the local 'wildlife' saw what was going on and started mooning through the windows. Hence the plan to have a windowless studio for Breakfast and a reconfigure of the placement of the BBC Sports news studio.
How true that actually was, I can't say - but it makes for an amuzing story.

However, given that area is on the ground floor, and there are other buildings that have sprung up on the sides of the Manchester ship canal, I can't see low sun glare would be much of an issue.

Does anyone know if the BBC News sports bulletins will come from the Olympic Breakfast studio too? Or will they remain in the temporary studio they're in at the moment while Breakfast uses their original studio.

That does look nice. It would be great to have it in that space permanently, perhaps even with the option to swivel round and have the windows background in the summer months like Granada Reports.

Yes it was notable how much stick the current Breakfast studio was getting this morning, pointing out that Ben can barely stand up in the current one. She must have forgotten they will be returning to the 'awful' studio that she spent all morning criticising in two weeks time!

Unless they're not telling us something... but I highly doubt it. It wasn't as if they were bidding farewell to the current studio permanently.

It's just 2 weeks then business as usual. It think its more a coup that they've got the studio and get to reveal the overnight results, rather than being shifted out by Sport, they've moved in with them for a bit. Snazzy titles and music from 6

I went on a BBC tour of MediaCity a couple of years back (if you haven't been on one before they're pretty good) and they mentioned the BBC Breakfast studio location. It was going to be on street level (not the BBC Sport Studio). If you look at the picture below

https://goo.gl/images/AtR8VN

there is a small mock set of Breakfast in the room which was meant to be it's home where you go and have your photo taken and they do a little new bulletin and weather with the people on the tour. There's also a Question of sport desk in there and another set which I can't remember. You can't see properly on the pictrure but the ceiling is "proper height". I can't remember the reason whey they opted against using it but I don't think it was much bigger than the current space. It maybe would have looked a bit too One Show with people walking to and from work in the background.

EDIT - Another picture

The other side of the room (where the picture above was taken from)
https://goo.gl/images/VEI0Wj

I don't really want to get into the realms of "I wonder", but I do wonder if one of those smaller screens could work somewhere in the normal studio.

I can't think of where it might go, tbh, but the only thing that I don't care for in the main studio is the awkward stretching and craning of the neck for any two-ways and the weather - which are frequent elements.

Other than that little niggle, I think it all works well as it is. Also, I didn't realise that the sports studio isn't totally self-contained (as per the 360' panorama on the last page). Probably not ideal for a 3 hour daily broadcast long term.

https://twitter.com/jamesmobbs/status/761653392162906113

Anyone manage to capture the behind the scenes tour?

You didn't miss anything to be honest, was quite brief and not much shown.