BBC National/News Channel from New Broadcasting House

I'm sure I've mentioned this before.

We're still at the grubby watermark stage of the bathtub curve; these things will settle down in time.

There's plenty you can test before a broadcast facility launches - but the stresses and strains of 24 hour broadcasting is sure to bring a few bugs out of the woodwork.

Meanwhile in West London, TC7's lightboxes and Barco screens being dismantled, posted to Twitter by Chris Cook


I realise it's a fish-eye lens but I'm surprised how little of the studio floor space is used, presumably because of the cost of the Barcos. It almost looks like there would have been space for another more conventional set opposite.

So good lets do it twice

I think that proves that it is moving on some kind of preset pattern. I assume that was around half way through the bulletin so maybe they were moving the cameras back for the post 'Coming Up' Studio Pan.

It will be interesting when MosArt controls the lighting as well as the cameras.

C

I notice that the 9am TOTH all went a bit wrong on the News channel. They went to a reporter live somewhere during the headlines and after he finished his headline it wouldn't let him go away - no titles or anything, just a shot of the reporter and the headline bed underneath, before fading away to Simon in the studio, who then began the top story, which they didn't/couldn't go to a report on, meaning it ended up being like a headline summary. At some point during all this the screen went black for a few seconds and then came back on, but the presenter continued regardless. Such fun.

Is the 90 Second Update in the same studio as the BBC Three News?

Apparently the 8pm bulletin comes from studio A (the 'green screen' studio used by Hardtalk and Newswatch), while 60 seconds (on BBC Three) comes from a small clip studio, studio F.

Since they are both live and on at the same time, that wouldn't be possible.

More crazy camera calamities right at the end of the BBC News at Six this evening. I think it caused Sophie Raworth to mess up the closing line about news where I am.

Nor really much space at all. They often used the space opposite on the Marr Show for musical performances, and it always looked quite squashed.

Seems like the BBC only have one reporter covering stories in Wales. This morning Hywel Griffiths was in Cardigan Bay talking about dolphins for Breakfast and by for the One O'clock news he was reporting on the car crash near Barry. How pathetic.

That's not true - they had a reporter at the car crash scene on the news channel during the morning - she was probably from Wales Today. They probably just wanted to use a more senior correspondent for the One O'Clock News.