Wonder who will take over The Wright Stuff? I assume it's be another EndemolShine company like Dragonfly or Shine for now then whoever wins the tender.
Channel 5 were retendering The Wright Stuff before this announcement I believe. No guarantee it will go to an EndemolShine company AFAIK.
I figured it was worth mentioning that according to reports at FTVLive (having difficulty with links from that site on my iPad now) CNN is going to sell their satellite truck fleet in a bid clear obstacles faced with the AT&T to buy Time Warner. The trucks are to be sold to PSSI, an outside broadcast company with currently 30 uplink trucks, and are expected to be permanently designated to CNN. (Kind of like when the BBC sold off the OB unit to SIS?)
Not really like the BBC / SIS Live thing - in fact kind of the opposite.
BBC Outside Broadcasts was an arm of BBC Resources and (like BBC Studio Resources) provided facilities for many clients - not just the BBC (though it did have long standing deals with some in-house BBC departments which SIS Live inherited, and then failed to keep).
However when SIS Live bought BBC Outside Broadcasts, they didn't dedicate the trucks (or staff) to BBC shows, just as BBC OBs hadn't before them.
Sounds to me much more like the deals Sky and ITN have with SIS Link - whereby they have 'bought out' trucks that are dedicated to them, but operated by SIS Link?
This Week came from The One Show studio in the autumn/winter of 2014 when the Millbank studios were being upgraded to HD.
Unlike Sunday Morning Live, who cover the interior letter pieces, This Week have been happy to refer to being in The One Show studio and live with them. (To be honest - they aren't that dominant if suitably lit, and without the exterior sections)
I wonder if the local election programme tomorrow is already set in Millbank, so This Week needed an alternative location?
The SIM's will only be used for submitting the results, therefore those SIM's are all Pay As You Go.
Sky Mobile is only available on contract. And only uses the O2 signal. Therefore if somewhere doesn't have a good O2 signal then they're in trouble. Hence why they have both O2 and Vodafone SIM's available.
Also the network is only a month or two old. Sky would never want to face the embarrassment if it was their own network that caused their results to come in delayed.
I think Sky have a 'tera-byte' corporate data deal with EE for 4G live reports and newsgathering use ?
02 and VF have far less 4G coverage in the sticks than EE
Most broadcasters have corporate deals on SIMs with multiple providers, on tariffs not available to the general public. (Including some that aggregate data across all corporate SIMs)
ITV may have a special link up with each constituency which costs them very little and so can get the results in very quickly. They then of course have their key link ups to the main constituencies.
BBC may have excellent links to the constituencies but for the remaining ones they just feel that they are not interesting and so do not need to be reported that quickly.
Also you are dealing with two very different production teams who come at the election night coverage from different points of view.
The speed isn't to do with the data connection - it's to do with journalistic principles. The BBC wait for the returning officer. If ITN are convinced from other sources (or by looking at the paper piles) that they can call it - they historically do.
We do not call it BBC Television Centre now apparently, it is now simply Television Centre and it will be "BBC Studios at Television Centre".
I presume you mean 'BBC Studioworks at Television Centre'? 'BBC Studios at Television Centre' presumably would refer to the new BBC production arm ('BBC Studios'), who also have some offices there (or will do) I believe?
Seeing the changes in monitor graphics look good. But I got to ask since they're still an SD operation - are the graphics and "newsroom backdrop" created in and played out in HD?
The stuff on the screens is HD - all their reports are also filmed and edited in HD and downscaled at playout.
Are the background LCDs hardwired to HD playout servers (Ravens?) then, or have BBC Birmingham upgraded their studio router and/or vision mixer to handle HD-SDI? (Or added a small HD-SDI screen router and some upconverters to allow SD sources to be routed instead of an HD background server?)
Last time I checked the Birmingham operation still had largely SD-SDI (i.e. SD) infrastructure (i.e. the core router and vision mixer were SD-only), and whilst they had HD capable location cameras, they were still editing in the SD domain on their Quantel gear (though Inside Out was edited HD on a separate platform - FCP I think)
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After reading a few posts about loose women and Lorraine sharing the same studio does this mean Lorraine, Loose Women and Peston on Sunday all use the same studio space and that the sets are constructed and deconstructed all day every day? Or is it just that its all under the same studio just different parts?
It's likely they're different as I wouldn't see Loose Women's set being made in 4 hours.
Why not?
Go see a west end show and you'll see even more complicated sets going up and down in seconds. Yeah, they're designed to be able to do that, but so will the loose women set.
Remember in the not too distant past, breakfast, working lunch, newsround and newsnight all came from the same studio at TVC, each with their own set.
Yep - set/strike of well designed sets is hardly new to the TV industry. For some reason, because news programmes often have 'standing sets' (i.e. permanently rigged sets) there is an assumption that setting and striking is tricky. Strictly used to be out by Sunday in the days of TVC if there was another TC1 booking...
It looks good but based on the caps I can't tell if the screens behind the sofa are real. If they are it's a shame they're used for static backdrop.
They are screens - the background in them animates rather than just twinkling (like the lightboxes some regions have) Suspect they are LED-backlit LCDs.
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Coming from an American perspective I just can't get past the use of sofas and coffee table height desks for a newscast. I think someone mentioned that the local news is more of a news magazine instead of a straight newscast. I guess the casual look works where there isn't such violence reported on every newscast. Soft seating areas are generally reserved for light entertainment portions of a local newscast - such as when a movie critic comes in.
Yep - we always find US local newscasts hilariously OTT though... It's like they are trying to 'out news' the network newscasts...
Here a sofa doesn't instantly translate to lightweight. BBC Breakfast can do serious news from a sofa with no problem at all. It means being able to switch from serious news to lighter interviews without needing to repo or have multiple areas.
At the end of the day - if you need a desk for your hard news to be credible, the set really isn't your problem
However you are correct - some of the BBC 1830 regional news programmes are quite magaziney, particularly in their second halves. They are also, often, the most watched 30 minutes of news in the UK. (The BBC 1830 bulletins outrate almost eveything else, but don't hit the BARB figures because each show is rated separately)
Could they not have put a smaller sofa against the newsroom window view, and still had a desk on a circular rostrum in front of the plasma screens?
Doubt they have plasma screens unless they previously had them. Plasma production stopped a while back (the rapid move to 4K kind of killed the tech) - now most BBC English regional studios are having to use LED-backlit LCDs (which are not great, and inferior to plasma) I don't think anyone stockpiled plasmas for on-screen use (unfortunately)
Hopefully OLED will be a better replacement tech..
I'm a bit confused as to what's going on. Correct me if I'm wrong but ITV is essentially demolishing the studios and stripping the tower to its core. When the projects all said and done their morning line up will have studios but nothing else available for outside product.
Yes - basically. "The London Studios" or " TLS" who run the studios on the current ITV South Bank site are closing when the site is vacated to be redeveloped. ITV currently have long-term bookings on a couple of studios for their ITV Daytime shows (GMB, Lorraine, This Morning and Loose Women) and have said the new operation will include studios for these shows, but they will no longer be operating big studios.
TLS's larger studios have been used by shows across the UK TV industry (the BBC-commissioned, ITV Studios-produced 'Graham Norton Show' is a notable example) and with Fountain closing London has only a few studios left. Hopefully Riverside and TV Centre will re-open soon.
Yes. Their current studios, including This Morning's, are on the site that ITV are moving out of for a number of years (to allow it to be redeveloped).
ITV are closing their large studio operation (aka The London Studios or TLS) on that site permanently, but have said they will retain a small studio operation for their ITV Daytime shows (GMB, Lorraine, This Morning and Loose Women)
