WO
Their last change took nearly 2months or at least 5 weeks I think.
Hope they remove everyone's most hated thing in that set...
NOISY TRACTOR CAM!
the eye posted:
aconnell posted:
When do BBC World move into N8? I suppose there is quite alot of refurbishment to do, both in the newsroom itself and the presenter part.
Their last change took nearly 2months or at least 5 weeks I think.
Hope they remove everyone's most hated thing in that set...
NOISY TRACTOR CAM!
DE
What are studios N1-N7 then as we never hear them mentioned - do they exist out of interest?
A question that's been asked and answered many times on this forum! The original news studios at Television Centre were known as N1 and N2. Both were decent sized news studios with good height for lighting and scenery hoists. There was a scenery lift from the ground floor as both these studios are on the 6th Floor. This lift was converted to passenger use some years ago. Originally because different news programmes had different sets, bulletins alternated between the two studios, but when the 'cut glass' look became the norm in 1993, domestic news bulletins settled into N2 and N1 became the home of BBC World News. For a time there was a tiny studio known as N3, which produced See Hear Breakfast News and one or two other Chroma Key and presenter lead programmes. N4 has always been a bit of a mystery to me, I;m sure noggin will remind me what that was! N5 was a news studio built for the original BBC World Service Television Arabic service, mothballed for years, then divided into a new tiny studio and gallery on the old studio floor. I'm not sure it still exists, but most recently was used for the production of BBC World's Talking Point programme, a simulcast phone in with the BBC World Service.
N1 and N2 closed when N6 opened in the news centre (Stage 6). They were refurbished and transferred to BBC Resuorces and became TC10 and TC11. They were used for things like Top of the Pops at Play for UK Play and Liquid News for BBC Choice.
Because news had taken semi-permanent residency in one of the main TV Centre studios TC7 (mainly Breakfast News, Working Lunch & Newsnight), it was deemed to be rather confusing to call a news studio N7, so this number was skipped and so the next two areas became known as N8 and N9. Note 'areas' - these aren't really studios as such. They are both newsrooms with sets in them and associated galleries. N9 was the first to go on air with the original News 24. News 24 moved to N8 when N1 was closed, and World moved into N9.
That takes us more or less to where we are now, just before the much talked about rejig of studios and mothballing of N9.
Worzel posted:
m_in_m posted:
The whole logistics sounds complicated, and I imagine it would be very simple to mistakenly playout a BBC World ident. Out of interest, are the gallery team also moving? Just wonder how it works, does weather handback to N9 in someway at 2130?
What are studios N1-N7 then as we never hear them mentioned - do they exist out of interest?
A question that's been asked and answered many times on this forum! The original news studios at Television Centre were known as N1 and N2. Both were decent sized news studios with good height for lighting and scenery hoists. There was a scenery lift from the ground floor as both these studios are on the 6th Floor. This lift was converted to passenger use some years ago. Originally because different news programmes had different sets, bulletins alternated between the two studios, but when the 'cut glass' look became the norm in 1993, domestic news bulletins settled into N2 and N1 became the home of BBC World News. For a time there was a tiny studio known as N3, which produced See Hear Breakfast News and one or two other Chroma Key and presenter lead programmes. N4 has always been a bit of a mystery to me, I;m sure noggin will remind me what that was! N5 was a news studio built for the original BBC World Service Television Arabic service, mothballed for years, then divided into a new tiny studio and gallery on the old studio floor. I'm not sure it still exists, but most recently was used for the production of BBC World's Talking Point programme, a simulcast phone in with the BBC World Service.
N1 and N2 closed when N6 opened in the news centre (Stage 6). They were refurbished and transferred to BBC Resuorces and became TC10 and TC11. They were used for things like Top of the Pops at Play for UK Play and Liquid News for BBC Choice.
Because news had taken semi-permanent residency in one of the main TV Centre studios TC7 (mainly Breakfast News, Working Lunch & Newsnight), it was deemed to be rather confusing to call a news studio N7, so this number was skipped and so the next two areas became known as N8 and N9. Note 'areas' - these aren't really studios as such. They are both newsrooms with sets in them and associated galleries. N9 was the first to go on air with the original News 24. News 24 moved to N8 when N1 was closed, and World moved into N9.
That takes us more or less to where we are now, just before the much talked about rejig of studios and mothballing of N9.
KI
Their last change took nearly 2months or at least 5 weeks I think.
Hope they remove everyone's most hated thing in that set...
NOISY TRACTOR CAM!
Yeah will they have a real (albeit refurbished) newsroom or are we expecting a CSO or Barco screen fake newsroom set constructed in the corner of N8? I doubt the second option with the budget restraints.
Worzel posted:
the eye posted:
aconnell posted:
When do BBC World move into N8? I suppose there is quite alot of refurbishment to do, both in the newsroom itself and the presenter part.
Their last change took nearly 2months or at least 5 weeks I think.
Hope they remove everyone's most hated thing in that set...
NOISY TRACTOR CAM!
Yeah will they have a real (albeit refurbished) newsroom or are we expecting a CSO or Barco screen fake newsroom set constructed in the corner of N8? I doubt the second option with the budget restraints.
BH
I was talking to someone who works at TVC about this recently. He told me that he used to think that noise was part of the theme music. It was only when he started working in the newsroom he realised it wasn't.
Worzel posted:
Hope they remove everyone's most hated thing in that set...
NOISY TRACTOR CAM!
NOISY TRACTOR CAM!
I was talking to someone who works at TVC about this recently. He told me that he used to think that noise was part of the theme music. It was only when he started working in the newsroom he realised it wasn't.
KI
I was talking to someone who works at TVC about this recently. He told me that he used to think that noise was part of the theme music. It was only when he started working in the newsroom he realised it wasn't.
Bvsh Hovse posted:
Worzel posted:
Hope they remove everyone's most hated thing in that set...
NOISY TRACTOR CAM!
NOISY TRACTOR CAM!
I was talking to someone who works at TVC about this recently. He told me that he used to think that noise was part of the theme music. It was only when he started working in the newsroom he realised it wasn't.
IT
Gavin's main presenting role is on Newsnight and he also steps in for Huw Edwards during the Five O'Clock Newshour on News 24. Add to that a few HARDtalks, and Dateline London, and he's quite a busy man.
It is a shame he doesn't do much N24 presenting anymore. Until c.2002 he was the senior presenter at N24 and used to present weekday evenings with Carrie Gracie. I enjoyed watching them but I think Carrie is a lot better with Simon McCoy (they make a student's breakfast very enjoyable!) and Gavin is excellent on Newsnight.
itsrobert
Founding member
the eye posted:
He does do Dateline, but thats still not much.
Gavin's main presenting role is on Newsnight and he also steps in for Huw Edwards during the Five O'Clock Newshour on News 24. Add to that a few HARDtalks, and Dateline London, and he's quite a busy man.
It is a shame he doesn't do much N24 presenting anymore. Until c.2002 he was the senior presenter at N24 and used to present weekday evenings with Carrie Gracie. I enjoyed watching them but I think Carrie is a lot better with Simon McCoy (they make a student's breakfast very enjoyable!) and Gavin is excellent on Newsnight.
