BBC News Channel: Presentation

Uh oh, on last night's Ten, my region, London, didn't cut away at the right time - so we got the ticker and those famous words, "and here with the rest of the Ten O'Clock News hour, it's Tim!" Then we got about one paper and cut away.

Surprising that they were doing the coverage from N6, wonder why they didn't anchor from an OB in Oldham or even the NorthWest Tonight studio so they could get guests more easily as so many politicians were in Oldham anyway?

Because it would be considerably cheaper? Compare the one camera they had for Laura Kuenssberg to how many were in N6. It was also being seen as a more national event than other bi-elections, given the opportunity to test the coalition.

Just lost World News America there for a moment - a 'normal service will be resumed shortly' slide was on screen for about 15 seconds before returning to Laura Trevelyan and WNA.

Edit: And (for a second or less) the same during ABC World News.

NC in TC7 today (so was breakfast)

They certainly are:



Maintenance/rehearsals in N6 perhaps?

They did some kind of rehearsals a couple of years ago and it was all discussed from this page onwards: http://www.tvforum.co.uk/thenewsroom/bbc-news-channel-presentation-27695/page-165
So may the same kind this time or just maintenance.

Dateline London in N8 (?) live according to maxine. or is is N9?

There's a training exercise underway across News at the moment which I'd imagine is occupying N6. Dateline is in N8, whilst this is going out World are on a playout.

Its nice to see the other end of the fake newsroom backdrop, it makes it look like its new.

Back in N6 at 3pm

Dateline came from the BBC World desk, and Karin Giannone decamped to the pod for the preceding bulletin, which may have been recorded?

Dateline is good on the World set - very interesting use of camera angles and close-ups.