Two-way boxes, or just boxes. People often think of calling it a split screen though this is correct as an observeration the term used in most news control rooms is boxes.
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.
I can guarantee 100% that they are a permanent fixture -- they're part of the wall! They just aren't caught on camera all the time. It depends, as noggin said, on framings, presenter heights etc.
Looks like they are still hoping to get US-wide carriage for BBC World:
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The United States is the only major nation that doesn't carry BBC news 24/7, says Richard Sambrook, the BBC's global news director. Some 255 million homes in 200 other countries and territories get the service.
Sambrook hopes the service will be available throughout the United States by next year.
Such ambitions have won a rousing "carry on" from international news aficionados here, frustrated by what they view as weak global coverage by mainstream U.S. media outlets. Most of all, they point to shortcomings of network TV news.
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.
I can assure you they are firmly attached to the wall. If you did remove them you would see a solid wall. And if you removed that you would see a White City housing estate!
They look semi opaque because they reflect the Newsroom
Strange seeing Tim Willcox doing BBC World News this evening -- they must be especially tight in terms of presenters. I'm sure I saw him on the morning shift on News 24 this morning too.
Strange seeing Tim Willcox doing BBC World News this evening -- they must be especially tight in terms of presenters. I'm sure I saw him on the morning shift on News 24 this morning too.
Ah you beat me, indeed he was presenting News 24 this morning, must be someone sick?
Didn't see Lucy Hockings on Saturday morning on World. Anya Sitaram did the morning shift, Anita MacNaught the middle one, and surprise surprise, Adrain turned up with the late one, despite the fact that he had been presenting all week on N24 and BBCW.
Didn't see any of yesterdays BBC W news, so assume Anita and Anya did the same two shifts, and Tim was in for Lucy/Mike/Adrian in the evening!
Drat - missed a new face on my favourite news channel.
Also, was amused to see Anita sitting in the newsroom the other day eating an apple, just after she had come off air, and had handed over to Adrian for the next slots. She seemed to be in a hot debate with someone out of view, full of remonstrations, and apple in hand, unaware that we could see her.
Strange seeing Tim Willcox doing BBC World News this evening -- they must be especially tight in terms of presenters. I'm sure I saw him on the morning shift on News 24 this morning too.
YAWN. This thread is like paint drying, it really is.
I can scarcely beleive that its the only thread you bother to read, Rob. I bet you the presenters don't know their own shift patterns the way you do.
If you don't like it Gavin, don't read it! Simple.
Anita was in the newsroom exactly behind where Adrian was sitting, just slightly left of his right shoulder as we see it.
I don't know who she was talking too and waving her arms at - maybe the producer giving her a ticking off for some real shoddy presentation that day. Her three bulletins that I saw were - at best - mediocre and very much error-riddled. Did anyone see her interviewing the guy who was sitting alongside her at the news desk - she had to pause to clearly wait for instructions in her ear about the next question she should ask!!!
Come on Anita - you are normally my favourite. What happened that day?
Strange seeing Tim Willcox doing BBC World News this evening -- they must be especially tight in terms of presenters. I'm sure I saw him on the morning shift on News 24 this morning too.
YAWN. This thread is like paint drying, it really is.
I can scarcely beleive that its the only thread you bother to read, Rob. I bet you the presenters don't know their own shift patterns the way you do.
YAWN at yet another of your tedious posts. If you opened your eyes for once, you'd see that I do participate in many more threads than this one. I'm getting mighty sick of people like you coming in and taking threads wildly off course. I suggest you stop it.
I think we can expect some changes in the World Newsroom in the next month or two and here's some interesting quote from a BBC executive regarding World...
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On two presenter format - we are looking to do this on some of our other
bulletins though not necessarily exactly as The World Today. We need to
make some adjustments to the set which we are hoping to do before the
end of the year.