BBC World News from New Broadcasting House

World news runs on a gallery of a minimum of five when in Studio c. A director, who runs the automation, sets camera shots and vision mixes, a sound operator p, a technical manager who lines up outside sources, plus an output editor and a prompt operator.

Sometimes there will also be a text operator but this is often automated. Sometimes there will also be a more senior editor. A maximum of seven.

There is never a camera/lighting operator or a vision mixer for world news.

In b there are a lot more staff although, I believe World News never uses a vision mixer, the director always does it.

Well that explains a lot. It seems like when there is a camera problem it usually takes a while for the to fix it either by moving the camera or changing the camera input. Do even have a furio operators position in the gallery where someone could quickly go over and fix it or do they have to do it from Mosart?

ISTR that there is a VM sat in front of the Kahuna for Outside Source (which comes through B not C usually?) - though they are there to firefight and not really used on-air.

The camera positions, framing and focus are set using Furio control panels (not via Mosart) to nominated pre-set slots in the Furio system. Mosart then just sends signals to the Furio system to recall the shots which have been set under automation control, which itself is triggered by the director, recalling effects that have been inserted into the script as Macros or similar in the newsroom computer system ( ENPS). I believe that the shots can be set from the directors position and there is also a lighting/vision/Furio position (which is not routinely staffed). That position is not close to the director's position (it's on a different row)

They have the following panels (or similar) I think :
http://www.rossvideo.com/robotic-camera-systems/furio/products/furio-robo/joystick-control.html
http://www.rossvideo.com/robotic-camera-systems/furio/products/furio-robo/smartshell-control-gui.html

There was a blooper just as Impact began, apperently someone was putting mic on.

The sound is very flat on BBC world news HD, it's a shame as the HD is very good, looking at the PDF that the providers get, there's four soundtracks with talkback out on audio 3 and 4, so it's definitely redbee that need to sort it out.

BBCWN changed the ticker today, instead of titles of the stories from RSS feed they have description of those stories.

About time. Those headlines drove me crazy because some were intentionally vague. The change they made is switching to sentence case which I don't care for. Currently my cable provider, Comcast, does not carry the HD feed in my area so I get a letter boxed 14:9 feed in a 4:3 frame.

Edit : Right after I posted this the ticker went all caps, then squeezed what probably was a 15 word sentence into the space that five words would normally fill and back to the newer style. What ever the case maybe it seems like they are making changes to one of the Viz engines while it's still on air rather than switching to a backup.

I will see if I can get a screen cap.

Edit #2 : I find it interesting they still give the generic web headlines in CAPS first when the ticker appears every few rotations and then once those go through they show the full descriptions in the order that they appeared using the web headlines.

And unable to get a capture of the squeezed headline. Must of been an anomaly.

Personally I prefer the use of capitals. Excuse the blurry cap.

IIRC the ticker was mixed case with the original version of these graphics, but later got switched to CAPS.

During WBR the ticker is changes from summaires to stupid headline titles!!!!!

Good move, it's much easier to read text written in mixed case than in all caps, especially like this with full sentences scrolling continuously.