BBC News 24

How much space does it need? How much space between the front of the newswall in N6 and the studio wall? 6ft? When they were redoing the Newsnight studio and showed the build, it didn't seem to take that much space.

There is also an issue of power and heat. Newswalls generate way to much heat to be placed in N24 newsroom. Would look awesome though.

In N6 there's about 6ft between the wall and the screens. As a result N6 is still extremely cramped - you also need to think about the working environment. There are people in that corridor and on the balcony whose desks may be about 3ft away from the newswall - you wouldn't want a dirty great big black mass of wires staring at you every day in the newsroom, would you?

They get that enough with the tours.

Well I'm not being funny but I think the viewer comes first and those who work there second. Can you imagine it, "Your little screen in N8 looks pathetic, why don't you have a bigger newswall?", "Oh we can't, it wouldn't look very nice for the staff!" If you work in TV, you should expect to look at the odd wire! Surely they could make the back of the newswall look a bit more attractive anyway.

Ive already said its more than that. The head the screens would generate is an issue. And the space it would take up. Energy it would use in such a small area. Ect.

Sadly - the law feels differently...

It isn't the "look" - it is the lighting and the amount of heat generated that cause problems when you try and use studio lighting and screen techniques in an area never designed as a studio.

Health and Safety - including Display Screen legislation - means that what is acceptable in a studio isn't always acceptable, legally, in an office workspace, which is what the News 24 newsroom is.

There is no way that the current News 24 presentation space could accommodate a projector based Newswall as used in the two News "studios" (i.e. not News 24 and World which aren't studios) - as the separation required between presenter and screen to light the newswall successfully is too great.

Also - News 24 (and World) still use mechanically, rather than electronically, shuttered cameras, which can be problematic with colour-wheel based DLP projection technology - though Al Jazeera's HD cameras (which are also LDK mechanically shuttered devices) seem to be OK...

%^&* that, I'm more interested to find out if it'll be raining @ 2pm tomorrow than some pseudo-witty "banter", which is very difficult when the pictures are on a tiny, dull screen on a screen. If they really feel the need to do it, they could split-screen for a few seconds ala Breakfast or something.

I hate when the weather is broadcast from the studio. First of all, the screen is too dull to actually make out anything (probably too many lights shining on it) and it just seems completely pointless. I don't mind seeing the weather in N6, but not in the News 24 studio.

I'd prefer to actually see the forecast. Not, as the poster above says, bad banter.

If you read what I said I agree that the small dull screen is a problem. I just want a better bigger screen in the studio that doesn't make the forecast unviewable as present.

When BBC News moves in 2008 or whenever it is, will N24 & World get 'proper' studios, or will it be converted office space again?

Surely if they have 'proper' studios, they could have newswalls!

Just five years later than everyone else!

Surely by 2008 newswall will be a thing of the past - Sky News will probably anchor from the "News Sky"

I forgot to mention the other week - on the afternoon of the north London tornado, I'm fairly sure I saw a weather map being CSO'ed onto one of the studio projectors, with one of the broadcast meteorologists sat in front of it. There was something of a blue glow around the screen, and the computer generated image had a bit of a halo to it.
I wasn't just imagining things, was I?