BBC News Channel: Presentation

Well, bearing in mind I don't have access to BBC World News Channel, only BBC (UK) News Channel & BBC One, I'm sure you will forgive my ignorance.

So, in that case, was the Bafta coverage handled totally by BBC World from N8, being broadcast on both BBC World News, for overseas viewers & BBC (UK) News Channel for the UK audience, while N6 was responsible only for the transmission of the 535pm bulletin on BBC One during this period?

Where was the UK News Channel ticker/graphics inserted from then?

Can World insert both it's own ticker on it's own output & the NC ticker on the UK output, presumbly using the 2 mixer arrangement it has?

New BBC News HQ almost finished...

Any idea when they'll start broadcasting from there?

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So if the 5 studios are being used for "programmes such as Newsnight" - does that mean the News Channel will not be in a studio, but in the newsrooom itself?

I expect there will be a new look around the time when operations are moved. The atrium does look very ITV News so the backdrop may feature this??

Oops someone's just knocked something over while they were doing the weather. (Loud clatter!)

Somebody mentioned a while ago that one of the studios is a newsroom set so it could be the news channel that is going to have it.

They will have the same issues that mean the nationals share the same studio as the news channel in the new building as they currently do at TVC - the cost of running so many studios, and the smaller licence fee increase than they required. While a newsroom set for the news channel is much wanted by the readers of this forum, I wonder how many people in the real world - the actual viewers of the channel - actually care if the studio is in the newsroom or not - I'd suspect very few. TBH, I'm expecting a similar allocation of studios as there currently is in TVC as it's cost effective and works. (I'm quite happy to be proved wrong ).

Does anyone know (bvsh house?) how many of the five studios will be used by world service?

Also, are there any insiders able to get some 'behind-the-scenes' photos of the studios / galleries during the build/fit-out? (even if they have to be censored until the building goes "live").

That's almost an identical copy of ITN's building on Grays Inn Road:

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Unless they do a Sky News and have a revolving desk, so either a big newswall can be put in shot or the newsroom itself.

I'd imagine that with such an impressive building, atrium that the News Channel and World will both come from a 'real environment' set.

Does anyone know when the move date is?

Well I'm picturing several sets around one area so two thirds of the area will be for BBC NC use and the remaining third wil be for BBC One use and BBC NC use for special events.

I think that they're now about to start the "kitting out" phase - though I think some technology items may still be in the "procurement" phase.

One of the problems with building such a large operation as this is that you need months (years?) to install all the kit - but if you spec it and buy it too early it is often out of date before it is even first used on-air...

I thought the public date at which News finally left TVC was 2012. I wonder if the "next year" is when people will begin to move in.

AFAIK BBC Arabic and BBC Persian aren't scheduled to move into that operation - but BBC London might be? (Have heard both rumours...)

At the moment BBC News have 3 main studios at TVC (One for BBC World News, One for the National News and the News Channel, and the third doing Breakfast, Working Lunch, Newsround, Newsnight, and the Sunday political shows) There is also a 4th studio for resilience and other shows (like the local elections) and a small CSO studio for BBC Three's 60 Seconds etc.

If one of the five studios mentioned is for BBC London - then that would leave the main BBC News operation with the same number as they have now (ignoring the CSO studio)?

The 5 Live move to Salford was scheduled for 2011. Moving all 5 departments 'up north' & moving the whole News operation into Broadcasting House at the same time would be madness - knowing BBC management, that is exactly what will happen