I'd quite like to see a UK specific version at 7pm that took contributions from around the regions - I think they used to do something like that in the News 24 days briefly?
News 24 Tonight. It's a shame they ditched it. Using stories produced by the regions wouldn't cost much right?
And I really love its original 2005 music and titles.
I'd quite like to see a UK specific version at 7pm that took contributions from around the regions - I think they used to do something like that in the News 24 days briefly?
News 24 Tonight. It's a shame they ditched it. Using stories produced by the regions wouldn't cost much right?
And I really love its original 2005 music and titles.
And before that News 24 made UK Today, which was a launch strand, but in Nov 1998 (on the day they moved from N9 to N8 and BBC Digital services officially launched) also became the opt-filler for DSat and DTT which had no regional variations initially.
UK Today wasn't a bad programme - certainly cost effective and something that would probably fit in nicely now.
Yes. Eventually it moved from N8 to N6 and was carried by BBC One DSat in England only, prior to the Red Button service carrying a couple of the bigger English regions launching, which in turn was replaced by the full line-up of BBC One English regions and sub-regions being launched 24/7 on DSat.
Once the Red Button English regions launched (Manchester, Birmingham, Southampton were there - possibly a few others), the UK Today team operation was closed. By then it had ceased to be that related to News 24, other than using the News 24 set for live bulletins to fill the regional opts in Breakfast. (Previously they had been pre-recorded)
Bristol and Leeds were also available on the red button ISTR. it was based on population area, the six biggest regions in terms of audience. It used the standard regional contribution circuits to London, so put a reasonable strain on the ability of regions to share material, lives etc. it was also only for the 1800 news hour.
It's LED - it can change colour faster than your eyes can keep up.
Shows the real versatility of the set up, pink though is a colour that I've not really seen before other than the Raspberry colour on GMT. Despite having such a versatile set up the BBC really use very few of the colours - it's mainly red, white, blue, pale cyan and orange-yellow.
Don't forget the pinks from Newsnight / Hard Talk, and I'm sure I've seen green used on something (Focus on Africa?).
While RGB LED sources can theoretically create millions of different colours, in the real world there's lots of limitations which means you often end up using combinations of the same colours over-and-over again. There is something very nice a lighting designer though when every (coloured) source is colour mixing (RGB or CMY) and you can sit there and make your whole set smoothly colour fade at the start of an item.
Don't forget the pinks from Newsnight / Hard Talk, and I'm sure I've seen green used on something (Focus on Africa?).
Although Newsnight's lighting is more dark blue these days and very dim. When it started coming from B there were lightboxes in Blue, Cyan, Purple and White, but since Katz came in the lighting is all a bit moody, dark and drab. Which is a shame really, if you're going to do that you might as well come from another studio and let Newsday have the nicer studio.