BBC Arabic

News 24 don't really have an equivalent programme though - World Have Your Say was the nearest - but not really the same.

I don't think you'll be seeing people wandering around from studio to newsroom to gallery when they move downstairs - the studio is in a different section of the building to the newsroom and gallery (so much so that they have to have a fire alarm light in the gallery to tell them that the alarm is going off in the studio area...)

I've not heard an official launch date yet for the Persian service. Very little work has been done in Egton AFAIK, but most of the required switching and distribution kit at Bush was installed at the same time as the Arabic kit. Also it will be on air for less hours than Arabic initially and it will not all be rolling news, so the editorial and technical demands will be lower than for Arabic because they need to get less hours of daily TV prepared and working before launch.

I have a gut feeling on when the launch might be, based on the project documents that have come across my desk, but I am wary of saying anything in case it is reported as a fact on Wikipedia or elsewhere.

The Egton wing is a totally new building, but currently stands alone from the rest of BH. There is a bit about the old Egton house here.

Everyone still calls it Egton House though, and we are all absolutely wrong to do so

http://www.rp-network.com/tvforum/uploads/egg.jpg

This is the new Egton wing of BH (for people who still can't work out where it is!)

I've just noticed during the TOTH for the BBC Newshour (18:00 & 20:00 GMT) that the titles are longer than the usual titles. I hope someone can capture them and put them on YouTube!

Very nice shot for the TOTH aswell:
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh24/justjoshhh/bbcarabicnewshour.jpg

Watch the current NewsHour as it has a different approach.

Looking at that you'd swear they were in the same newsroom as N24!

Would love to see some more caps from that - looks great.

I still have not seen the virtual shot of studio 33D that was used in the pilots. Maybe it was just an experiment and has been dropped, but it looked very impressive. Let's just say the studio was made to look a lot bigger, and it had everyone in the office fooled who had never stood in the studio.

Have just realised studio numbers have not been mentioned yet.

I may have got this horribly wrong since I spend little time at Egton, but I think the system goes like this:

First digit - BU building/wing number (Egton is 3)
Second digit - Floor number
Third Letter - Studio within that floor.

So the radio studios are 33A/33B/33C - which you see when talking point goes walkabout from the big TV studio 33D.
Likewise, one floor up, you get 34A/34B/34C as radio and 34D as the TV studio with the smaller desk.

That wide virtual shot is normally used before the 2000GMT Newshour.

One thing I did notice in tonight's Newshour was that Rania (the female presenter) didn't have a keyboard or mouse! You would at least think the BBC could afford that