"BBC WORLD"

My thoughts were correct - due to Adrian's shifts during this last week on World and N24 (more than usual), it meant that it was likely that a strange face would appear on World to cover his weekend shift. Today (Saturday) it appeared to be Anya Sitaram. Let's hope we see more of her doing BBCW bulletins. She was quite good and excellent journalist.

Anita was really grim and dreary today, hardly smiled and didn't carry out her farewells very nicely. Very short and curt and abrupt.

Reminded me today of Cruella de Ville from 101 Dalmations!! (And I must be the biggest ANITA FAN anywhere, so she must have been grim if I'm complaining!)

The white screen was up again on Thursday and Friday, but had disappeared again by today. I am still waitin on one of you BBC World experts or insiders to tell me what this screen is. (See my post slightly higher up on this thread.)

BBC World.

What white screen. There is no white screen. Whereabouts are u seeing it

As far as I can tell, Geeta and Keshini are contracted to do Asia Today, as when they do news bulletins, they are working overtime. Anya and Aruna Iyengar are freelancers.

Adrian does 2 days a week, but occasionally does a bit more. He's also contracted to do some News 24 shifts on top of his World duties. I heard off the grapevine that his appearance on News 24 yesterday afternoon was unscheduled, and it was due to sickness.

That white screen you describe is just part of the wall of the newsroom. It's been there since 2000, but rarely comes into camera shot, hence why you think it is sometimes there and sometimes not.

Hope that clears up a further few confusions.

No. the white screen I am referring to is certainly part of the wall. But it is very distinctly either up or down., open or closed. (What I mean is that it is not a case of it sometimes coming into shot, and sometimes not. On many occasions, the same camera shots are used on BBCW - such as the closing shot, where we see the newscaster looking to his /her left to the far away camera, and with the plasma over their right shoulder. This "white wall" i am referring to sometimes appears in this shot directly behind the newscasters head, as though the wall is right behind him/her. On most occasions though, the white wall is not there, and we can see way behind ther newscaster and along into other parts of the newsroom in the distance. In fact, it reminds me of the type of curtain like white background that is used in ther Parliament Studio and on Dateline London. )

I can assure you that nothing has changed in the World Newsroom. Not yet anyway

Are you sure it's not just the camera not always being on the same mark. they do get moved sometimes to get better shots of guests. This would result in a different perspective behind the presenter.

Incidentally the shot way back into the newsroom is actually a mirror reflecting the newsroom.

Can you get a capture to show what u mean

Ah, I understand what you mean. What you think is other parts of the newsroom is in fact a mirror. It just shows a reflection of the real newsroom! The white wall starts at the mirror and goes to the gallery. No curtain at all.

http://thetvroom.com/images-bbc-world/images-2001/news-a.jpg

http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/otherchannels/bbcworld/bbcworldnewsend01012004a.jpg

Is this what you mean? 2 completely diff periods, mind you...

This is why I can't stand Anita - to me she is like this all the time. I've never once seen her ad-lib!

Well those white panels on the wall behind the red panel, are lightboxes I think, and have been there since News 24 were in that newsroom and studio in 1997 (N24 moved out in 1998) They originally had coloured flag inserts in them ISTR.

As others have said - whether you see some bits of the background in the newsroom depends on lots of things, camera positions, ped height, presenter height , whether the presenter is on the same mark etc.

Is there a term or definition when you have both presenters on screen at the same time, like the example below?

http://home.wanadoo.nl/kraan90/image/tank,%20manisha77.jpg

Well, those "lightboxes", or whatever they are, are sometimes there and sometimes not there. I have now noticed that it appears to be present on a Thursday and a Friday only, but not for the rest of the week.

Again, the items I am referring to (shown in the above captures at the extreme right hand side of the shot) are best described as being the same type of semi-opaque background (whiteish) that is used on Dateline London.

Its called a split-screen if I am not wrong.