BBC News Channel: Presentation

They should have brought someone in today to do the network bulletin from a CSO - like hapenned the other week when the network bulletin was scheduled during Dateline London. The speech was a known about event that for impartiality should have been covered in full. While the Saturday lunchtime bulletin has been from the news channel for a few years now in this case the expense of a 2nd presenter etc was justified

Would another option that may not incur additional costs be for the BBC London presenter to do the national bulletin. Presumably it's easily feasible for BBC London to be routed as output across the network.

Agreed - I'm sure they could have had one of the breakfast presenters, who finished at 10, stay on till 12 to do this...

Does anyone know if after the move to Broadcasting House, the News Channel and Nationals will be separate again? Solve this issue altogether.

I suppose another way around it would be to have a small presentation area with a gallery (would be useful to have a spare I suppose) and adjustable lighting so it could be used for 60 Seconds and headline updates instead of a silly CSO.

Off topic slightly, but I miss when the studio was used like this. Now it's so bland.

http://www.thisisfive.co.uk/presbits/bbcnews2008/33.jpg

How is it now used any differently to the above picture?

I don't believe the White squares above the studio are there anymore.

They don't seem to use any exciting camera angles any more, they've got rid of the little podium and the little walk that the sport presenters used to do, they're not using the screens to their full potential either.

The studio can look so good, as in the photo above. However they just seem to let it tick over, dull as ever.

Yep, and the 'Breaking News' sound effect has gone too.

Nope they're still there. The only major difference is the lighting - the top bar across the screens used to be white for the News Channel and then lit in red for the main news bulletins. Since the Barcos were upgraded, the top bar now remains red for the majority of the time.

isn't the lighting grid flooded with red light too these days?

They stopped the Breaking News effect in the relaunch - therefore isn't something that's stopped since that picture, as per the other comments. The studio is far too dark at the moment - whatever technical people on here say about N8 and N9 having poor lighting and lack of a 'studio' the general lighting to ordinary viewers is, in my opinion, far greater.

They never used exciting camera angles. Has the podium gone? I thought I saw it the other day. There was no point to that little walk. They have never used the screens to their full potential. That picture you showed above is exactly the same as the TOTH I saw at 11am today apart from the red strap at the top.