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They certainly don't. I find all American news studios disgusting.
I actually like CBS's and NBC's studio design, however before Charlie Gibson left ABC, I found their studio superior t both CBS and NBC before the new look with Dianne Sawyer.
All of the morning show sets over there are superior to ours; a cold box with screens (BBC Breakfast), a bright orange mishmash of pres areas (Daybreak) and a tiny corner of a newsroom (Sunrise).
The national news sets over there have the right idea, separate areas for one on ones, weather (although their 'Weather Center' idea is overrated) sport, travel, light news etc.
Local sets are national grade sets and some are even more superior to national sets, again keeping the multiple pres areas but each set is an independent design, yet O&O's (and stations owned by the same company) have one basic design and/or layout and elements.
They aren't actually that superior - As Charlie Brooker points out in the video above (and the whole Newswipe Series) that just because something looks better doesn't make it better. Our sets are simple and to the point they don't have the space or the money to have massive sets or the need. American News is just ridiculously over the top and the Ridiculous Sets match the Sensationalist Nature of many of there programmes where as our Programmes are not Sensationalist (particularly the BBC) so huge, bright, colourful, over the top sets would not match the content.
Of course they have the right idea when it comes to news studio design.
They certainly don't. I find all American news studios disgusting.
I actually like CBS's and NBC's studio design, however before Charlie Gibson left ABC, I found their studio superior t both CBS and NBC before the new look with Dianne Sawyer.
All of the morning show sets over there are superior to ours; a cold box with screens (BBC Breakfast), a bright orange mishmash of pres areas (Daybreak) and a tiny corner of a newsroom (Sunrise).
The national news sets over there have the right idea, separate areas for one on ones, weather (although their 'Weather Center' idea is overrated) sport, travel, light news etc.
Local sets are national grade sets and some are even more superior to national sets, again keeping the multiple pres areas but each set is an independent design, yet O&O's (and stations owned by the same company) have one basic design and/or layout and elements.
They aren't actually that superior - As Charlie Brooker points out in the video above (and the whole Newswipe Series) that just because something looks better doesn't make it better. Our sets are simple and to the point they don't have the space or the money to have massive sets or the need. American News is just ridiculously over the top and the Ridiculous Sets match the Sensationalist Nature of many of there programmes where as our Programmes are not Sensationalist (particularly the BBC) so huge, bright, colourful, over the top sets would not match the content.
