Al Jazeera to close?

So is every bulletin presented live? Wow I didn't know the BBC produced a third news channel in addition to BBC News and BBC World News.

4 actually. There's also BBC Persian.

BBC News, BBC World News, BBC Arabic and BBC Persian are all continuous TV news networks coming from W1. There are also TV bulletin services for lots of other languages. There are plans to expand the Russian TV operation, and introduce a Korean service too I believe.

BBC Persian has Live programming from 1330-2030 each day, with Iranian 'Top of Hour' bulletins on our half-hours due to the GMT + 4.5 hour time difference. Their weekend programming is on Thursday and Friday.

The old studio was more interesting, as it had a real view out of the 5th floor windows of BH.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEe92PiUJb4 has a live stream

The Persian channel is less of a 'news Channel' than BBC Arabic, as it has more long form Features/Discussion programming.

Including Top Gear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zhLQFgbZy8 (bad quality video but you get the idea)

I didn't realise BBC Persian had lost their window view! BBC Arabic seemingly lost their newsroom space some time ago (or covered the windows up) and I've never been able to figure out when it happened or why.

This Facebook Live video was on the BBC News feed a few days ago. Interesting as they go around the W1A building and into a few studios and galleries.

It starts in the current Persian gallery/studio in Peel Wing, and goes over to the 5th floor in NBH.

https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews/videos/10154828105862217/

Fascinating video. Looks like all the galleries run Mosart. Looks like they may be produced in HD even if the service goes out as SD.

What type of radio cam are they using for this tour? It didn't break one bit.

The NBH Galleries are all Mosart (or Mosart Lite, possibly, in the smaller galleries)

The Persian gallery looks like it's running Ibis Playout software, and is almost certainly still SD - the studios will be 8-10 years old. All the NBH studios will have been built HD.

The Facebook Live video might have been done using bonded mobile (like Mobile Viewpoint's WMT), as it was pretty stable throughout.

Not all galleries in W1 are Mosart.

There are some older control rooms installed for BBC Arabic and BBC Persian that run with an older automation system (IBIS + Dalet I think) which uses the ITN-style - 'drive the server from the mixer' model rather than the Mosart 'drive the mixer and the server from automation model'

AIUI the Arabic and Persian studios are still SD, and some of them are getting on for 10 years old now.

These control rooms were installed when the BBC World Service TV operation was very independent of the BBC domestic and BBC World News TV operations, and hence had no reason to go down the Omnibus News Control or Columbus route that was then the standard at TV Centre (and they pre-date the procurement process that selected Mosart as the replacement for those systems).



BBC use COFDM RF cameras internally within NBH - Outside Source has traditionally used one. I believe the Arabic and/or Persian galleries have at least one available to them (or they did) for doing newsroom presentation safely without having cable management issues.

Not saying that the camera used in this case was COFDM (it could be a WMT bonded solution instead) - but certainly COFDM is an option and in use.