BBC News Rebrand - This Monday

Let's hope there's something decent that comes about from moving into N6. This shot at the end of the 12pm news today just looks great as it is.

http://www.rp-network.com/tvforum/uploads/n24shot.jpg

I hope we see something like that, and something like the old National set backdrop, were you could see multiple levels, that looked modern.

Any articles in the papers then? I thought the Media-Guardian may have had something.

I hope they can figure out some way of 'pumping' newsroom noise into the new studio.. The background noise that you hear especially during broadcasts from the pods at the side of the set really does give the channel a sort of buzz.

I really hope not. A big news room is never that quiet and you can't expect the journalists to talk in hushed tones. The new BBC Arabic radio studios at Egton do not include proper continuity studios, just a set of U shaped soundproof pods to do the continuity and 5 minute news updates from. Since they are open back onto the news room you can regularly hear all sorts of extrenuous noise made up of low level English speech. I'm told there have been early morning bulletins accompanied by the sound of a hoover too.

But surely they could filter the sound so it's not too loud? Anything would be better than silence.

Not for much longer

Wouldn't that be more trouble than its worth?

Obviously you wouldn't be constantly filtering live audio! You'd just do a short bit of sound on a loop and use it forever!

Awful, awful, awful. I wonder how many tens of thousands of pounds they paid a branding company to come up with that. It makes zero sense ditching the News 24 brand - I've not seen a single argument which suggests it's a good idea.

By the looks of it, they didnt.

Oh dear...will it become the BBC News Channel as well?!

The thing is I'd have thought they will rarely refer to it as the BBC News Channel - probably when they're referring to it at the end of BBC One bulletins. On screen it'll be just BBC News most likely.