BBC National News: Presentation

After the great criticisms of the six presenters 'prancing around' N6, and then them sitting George down, why is he back up again? Though I thought Huw standing in the sport/ E24 area of N6 added great unity and wouldn't make NC viewers think any differently.


EDIT: God those paper review and website promotion look dreadful on white. The same goes for NC's split screens.

P.S. One of the reasons I like the new N6/ TC7 background is because it's less distracting than N8, yet still moving and not too boring! Makes the reader focus very much on the presenter/ guest/ reporter.

Also, does anyone else think the backdrop has been edited rather than the screens themselves to hide the lines, baring in mind how noticeable graphics and weather backdrops show the lines!

Looking at the paper review on the BBCi loop - did something go wrong there? Surely there should have been some sort of background (based on the titles) behind the papers rather than solid white...

The News Channel - unlike News 24 - has a crew daytime. You may have noticed the lighting and camera framing has improved a lot - that is because there is a lighting/remote camera operator. There is also now a vision mixer.

That said - crew changeovers can, and do, takeover seamlessly.

It is worth remembering that BBC News used to operate a 24 hour news channel from a studio with a full crew for quite a few years. BBC World used to come from a studio for large chunks of the day - with lighting, vision, vision mixer etc. crew, until they moved into their current home in 1998.

I doubt they will be recording PTCs in the News Channel studio for the Ten during the Six - it would lock them in to a 4 hour old script if they did so. More likely to record them in the CSO studio used for 60 Seconds and the Daytime summaries, or in the News Channel studio between 2130 and 2200 when BBC World provide a 30 minute news summary for the News Channel, to allow the Ten to rehearse and record.

Also just seen a "Get the Weather every half hour" promo.

From the BBC Editor’s blog on BBC News design changes:



I suppose there's no one on the BBC Website technical enough to explain how 625/50 video works

The titles at the end should have LONDON, EDINBURGH, CARDIFF, and BELFAST only. This time we have the world.

Or TC7 before Newsnight... as they did last night...

Yep - that is also an option.

Oh, well thats good to know. Not all jobs can be taken over my a computer then .

Sorry to sound silly but have I got this right - all the national news are now sharing their studio with the BBC News Channel?

Also how did the old News 24 get by without a vision mixer?

No - the One and Ten share, the Six remains in the Newsround/Newsnight studio, as it has been since January.


They did different wipe effects to the News Channel (and as World still use)

I'm not saying that the 10 year old mixers used by News 24 and World are ancient and antique models - they are still perfectly usable mixers (and in fact are a standard model used in many other studios - the Sport galleries have two similar models) - and it is possible to achieve excellent effects if you add extra kit (as the BBC One and Newsround/Newsnight galleries got a couple of years ago to add flashier wipes - as used by Newsround, Newsnight and the previous One/Six/Ten and titles with key reveals etc.)

The new mixers that the News Channel and Newsround/Newsnight studio have incorporate animation stores with keys - so that short wipe effects can be stored in the mixer.

The old News 24 and World mixers can only do standard mixer wipes - though the borders of these wipes can be filled with external video sources (as the current World and previous News 24 headline wipes employed)