BBC World News from New Broadcasting House

A really great, inventive shot just now on World News as Ros joined Tania Beckett from Studio B, with the World Business Report branding on screens and lighting. It looked really good with the blues, as well as some cameras in the background.

Has it been done before?

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BBC WN is being broadcast from Studio B.

Does B require more people to staff it than C in the same way that TC7 needed more people than N8?

Presume they're in B for maintenance or another obit rehearsal in C?

Presumably the only additional staffing for B would be for cameras? Aren't all the galleries designed for running at varying staff levels in NBH?

I'm fairly sure that B (and A, and presumably D) has robotic cameras, they just don't move on rails.

The Cameras are semi-robotic in that the camera heads can be controlled from the gallery if the want, I don't think that the cameras can actually move by themselves but for a weekend news setup I doubt that any of the cameras will need to be moved. I expect the cameras have just been put in a position and will be altered from the gallery if needs be.

The BBC run a mix of Furio remote controlled tracking cameras (Studios C and E) and Shotoku remote (NOT Robot) camera (Studios A, B and D) in their W1 studios. AIUI there is just a single robotic camera in Studio A.

(A jib and - I believe - one ped in Studio B are entirely manual with no remote heads. I'm not considering BBC Arabic, Persian or the MPAs)

There is a major difference between a remote and a robot (in BBC terms).

Remotes are cameras on remote Pan/Tilt/Zoom (and in most cases Elevate/Depress) heads mounted on conventional pedestals (or tripods potentially) However the pedestal is not remotely controlled, and thus the camera can only be physically moved to a different position within the studio manually. In the 90s there were also remote cameras in some of the down-the-line studios - which could be controlled by a similar user interface to the studio camera remotes.

Robots have the same type of remote PTZ head as remotes BUT additionally they are mounted on remotely controlled pedestals, that allow the camera peds to be physically moved (in some cases on-shot) under remote control.

So at the BBC - robot is a term reserved for a camera that can move around the studio under remote control, whilst remote is used for a camera that can be remotely framed but from a fixed position which can only be changed manually.

Robots are much more expensive and have lots of additional safety issues - and in some cases don't offer huge amounts of additional benefit in simple studio designs.

At TVC in the early 90s N1 was equipped with remotes, whilst N2 had robots. When N2 closed no more robots were used routinely by News at TVC - N6, TC7, N8 and N9 only ever had remotes.

I could be wrong, Noggin, and I usually am! (As you well know). But some of the moves in B today "felt" like a jib job, in which case, there'd be an operator. Right?

Mainly a big elevated pan-in and pan-out at the opening and closing of the bulletin.

They were done on a conventional pedestal today. The jib wasn't used. A ped can go surprisingly high! Studio C is now back on air.

BBC World News intro into Reshmin Chowdhury in Salford with the top story (F1) and handing subsequently to Maryam Moshiri in London for the rest of the days news.

Never seen this Salford lead before.

Where was the Salford presenter? I'm guessing the domestic News Channel sport would be in the Sports News set?