I would imagine that N6 is playing in the pre-recorded material, certainly for non-Olympic material and possibly originating graphics.
The national bulletins involve three galleries at the moment - Lund Point (Olympic Park), N6 and TC4 which is switching between Lund Point and upscaled N6 to produce an HD programme. The astons may be being added by TC4.
I would imagine that N6 is playing in the pre-recorded material, certainly for non-Olympic material and possibly originating graphics.
The national bulletins involve three galleries at the moment - Lund Point (Olympic Park), N6 and TC4 which is switching between Lund Point and upscaled N6 to produce an HD programme. The astons may be being added by TC4.
What's TC4 used for?!
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The HD output as N6 is SD only. This has already been discussed at length in the past 2 weeks!
Meanwhile, the News Channel are using N9 this hour for headlines - terribly lit - which strikes me as odd as they were in N6 in the last hour. Are they using the N6 gallery for the Six now then - or is N6 out of action?
Seeing N9 poorly lit like that reminds me of that exact studio a decade ago. Although it looked totally different then, the lighting used to be appalling. It was always so dark, exacerbated by having a dark gallery as a backdrop behind the newsreader. Thankfully it was brightened up a lot during the 2004 studio re-design.
I just watched it back on BBC iPlayer. Did they cut to the other weather position half way through the broadcast?
This side of the studio was being set up for an interview by Huw and the coordinator of London 2012 to be broadcast at :45. The gallery cut to this briefly by mistake and then went back to the weather. Darren Bett, who was presenting the weather, didn't even realise.
Hope that answers your question
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News Channel coming from N9 again. Presumably they'll be moving the News at Six possibly into N6 after the Olympics and the News at Five will come from N9?
News Channel coming from N9 again. Presumably they'll be moving the News at Six possibly into N6 after the Olympics and the News at Five will come from N9?
I think it's more the case that while the Olympics are on the national bulletins are in HD and N6 and TC4 are somehow linked to make it an HD production (don't ask me how!!). I suppose it makes more sense to have the N6 produce the six rather than having TC7 set up similarly just for one half hour bulletin.
I find it odd that they're using N9 for the five rather than TC7 though.
News Channel coming from N9 again. Presumably they'll be moving the News at Six possibly into N6 after the Olympics and the News at Five will come from N9?
I think it's more the case that while the Olympics are on the national bulletins are in HD and N6 and TC4 are somehow linked to make it an HD production (don't ask me how!!). I suppose it makes more sense to have the N6 produce the six rather than having TC7 set up similarly just for one half hour bulletin.
I find it odd that they're using N9 for the five rather than TC7 though.
I suppose it means that Newsnight don't have to change the set and can leave it in place everyday. It would be pointless changing the set for a 5-10 minute slot while Huw Edwards moves to allow the Six to prepare in the Olympic Studio.
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Dan S
Interestingly, they've just played the full titles going into the 18:30 junction, now back in N9 with Joanna Gosling.
Yep - no need for TC7 to get involved for live transmission - it would only complicate things.
AIUI Lund Point is a multi-camera HD studio, with some limited local replay facilities for headlines, and a basic vision mixer.
N6 is SD only.
Sport News in Salford is HD.
TC4 is hubbing between the three of them - allowing the Lund point studio and HD Olympic content edited by Sport News in Salford to stay HD for viewers of BBC One HD, with N6 output upconverted from SD to HD and fed into TC4 as well. The on-screen graphics looked to be SD upconverts rather than HD.
I assume that TC4 is the source taken by BBC One HD and BBC One (downconverted to SD).
I assume that the News Channel take an SD output from TC4 and route that through their on-screen graphics path to add clock, ticker etc. in the same way they would for other remote shows.
I also imagine that there are tielines with SD to HD upconversion between N6 and TC4 to let N6 play-in server material to TC4.
Very sensible way of doing it - and commendable effort to broadcast in HD for the duration. BBC One is effectively pretty much entirely HD all day for a fortnight.
They appear to have largely cracked the sound and lighting/vision issues in the main BBC One Lund point studio - the bulletins have generally looked and sounded pretty OK recently. It's so much nicer to have a real backgdrop rather than a projected one.
We've got a BBC World News simulcast at the moment, 'BUSINESS edition'. Not sure if this is what happens usually.
EDIT: The 'BUSINESS edition' graphic disappeared and shortly after the normal BBC News DOG and clock appeared over the BBC World News DOG. The ticker has now also returned.
