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ITV moved This Morning out of its original studio in Liverpool because of the well-understood difficulties of getting slebs out of London on a weekday morning. Oddly enough, however, the industry does not seem to have a comparable problem in the USA, where the traditional centres of film and TV production are separated by almost 2,500 miles and three time zones.
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Live shows in America tend to broadcast from the two major media cities in America. New York and LA. Although political shows tend to broadcast from Washington even though their news networks will broadcast from New York.
Morning shows like Good Morning America or Today broadcast from New York where it's easier to get guests (and because they can then put the same show on a tape delay for the west coast). They haven't moved those shows up to Boston. They put them in what is the biggest city on the East coast.
The evening shows such as Leno or Letterman broadcast from either New York or LA. Again they've chosen places where their prospective guests are likely to be rather than requiring them to make a detour from their promotional tours or homes to get to the studio. Their guests are promoting something and knock off several shows in a few days.
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As a publicly-funded broadcaster, and one of the biggest broadcasters in the entire world, the BBC is in a position to challenge this metropolitan media laziness. The BBC is bigger than any of them, and it provides an unbeatable platform for their opinions, projects, vanity, whatever. Build it, and they'll come. They have no choice. It may take a while, but thanks to the licence fee the BBC has the luxury of time. Our whole economy needs rebalancing away from the southeast, and moving chunks of the BBC a stone's throw further up the island is an important contribution to that.
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Moving some shows up the island is fine. Doctor Who is Cardiff, Match of the Day in Salford, Strictly Come Dancing in Salford. It's all good. That is a good attempt to distribute activity across the UK. We don't need to take so many shows out of London however and news and live shows are examples of shows that work better if broadcasting from the Capital.
London is where a lot of the guests are and it's the wrong way around to move the shows presuming that the media and political organisations and structure will move with them. The shows need to go where the people are not the other way around. A good example is when American media figures come over, they fly in, attend their premier or whatever, then go right to the studio talk show thing in the even (Jonathan Ross, Graham Norton), spend the next day doing the radio tour, and then fly back/off to America.