BBC News: Nations & Regions

Don't Oxford and Jersey both opt-back into the main programme's "Still to come" sequence - which has a kind of trail ahead punctuation?

Personally I quite like the Cambridge model of "Close Up" News - where a big story on either side of the patch can lead the bulletin pan-regionally (but where the headlines contain a sub-regional item), and there is an acceptance that the sub-regional stuff may not be as important (so not right to lead the bulletin) but the really local stuff is interesting.

Here's two captures from Wales Today

Sport
http://www.rp-network.com/tvforum/uploads/walestoday_sport_.jpg

Here's the end of Wales Today

http://www.rp-network.com/tvforum/uploads/walestoday_end.jpg

I think maybe they just haven't realised that 'BBC Channel Islands' is trying to be it's own region now. Before the re-brand Spotlight CI would do a small promo of what would be coming up 'later in the programme' and they would sign off with 'we're going to hand you over now to (presenters names)' but now they just end with a generic goodbye and give no promo at all. Fair enough if they played an end sting or something, but they don't do that either. It just cuts straight into Plymouth.

No, the fonts are wrong.

Yes, and it seems a bit strange to introduce the BBC Sport brand when this whole revamp was designed to push BBC News!

Bozz

I haven't got time to put a gallery together for the BBC Channel Islands pages yet but have taken the photos.

So I've decided to upload them to my Flickr stream in the meantime. I hope they're what you would be looking for.



The final gallery will include a more detailed description of each photo but will also include less photos.

The TV team are a bit busy at the moment as they're doing the whole programme tonight (full 30 minutes) instead of opting back to Plymouth AND they're presenting from Guernsey instead of Jersey due to the election stuff.

Anyway - my studio photos on Flickr (there are also a couple of BBC Radio Jersey studio pics thrown in as I passed it on my way back to my desk).

You can see all the photos in the Broadcast set on my Flickr Photostream.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/upyourego/sets/72157604711470889/

I was expecting small, but cameras on Unicol poles? Blimey.

Do the autocue hoods have cameras behind too, or are the presenters looking slightly off to the sides of the sides when reading?

Excellent pictures. I'm much obliged.

I believe the autocues have cameras as well - I know the one used for the 8pm bulletin and for live reports from Guernsey do although that's more a case of the cameras having autocues attached to the pole.

NWT is using the plasma loop for their end board - Midlands Today is using an animating background and added the rest on themselves.

Your pictures make the set look much better than it does on-screen for some reason. V. nice!

I have an old pic of the set here from a few years back, and you can tell what the purpose of that other table was.

http://www.bpirozzolo.com/bbcwide.jpg

It looks like either the presenter got uncomfortable sitting on that odd chair, or it was just a bit too low to the ground.

Good stuff - I'm surprised by the Radio Jersey studio desk, I was expecting the kind of split desk that other new builds and refits like Leeds, Sheffield, Hull, Bradford etc which were done at a similar time rather than something with "updide down" faders.

The desks in Jersey haven't been re-fit - they're still the analogue ones.