I notice that the newswall backdrop screen on World News Today carries the anchor's name in the titles again, just like it used to in the old BBC World studio. "World News Today with George Alagiah". "World News Today with Nik Gowing".
But no titles for Zeinab Badawi's bulletin for some reason - just plain old "World News Today".
I notice that the newswall backdrop screen on World News Today carries the anchor's name in the titles again, just like it used to in the old BBC World studio. "World News Today with George Alagiah". "World News Today with Nik Gowing".
But no titles for Zeinab Badawi's bulletin for some reason - just plain old "World News Today".
What I can't understand is how come the BBC World News set, N8 - seems to get a lot more attention; maintenance wise than the BBC News channel's N6? Seems somewhat unfair.
Well N6 doesn't have a newsroom containing lots of PCs, TVs etc in vision behind it which will need electrical testing, so that would account for at least one occasion each year when N8 is out of use.
There is also the opportunity to do minor lighting and set tweaks to N6 overnight and during Breakfast which N8 doesn't have.
N6 is a proper studio rather than a corner of a newsroom, so it's likely its infrastructure may need less maintenance anyway.
Well N6 doesn't have a newsroom containing lots of PCs, TVs etc in vision behind it which will need electrical testing, so that would account for at least one occasion each year when N8 is out of use.
There is also the opportunity to do minor lighting and set tweaks to N6 overnight and during Breakfast which N8 doesn't have.
N6 is a proper studio rather than a corner of a newsroom, so it's likely its infrastructure may need less maintenance anyway.
Well, they don't
need
testing, but chances are they are!
In any case, you'll probably do well to ignore Worzel, many of his posts are the same about how awful N6 is and how terrible the Barco screens are - he's just posted the same thing in another thread.
I notice that the newswall backdrop screen on World News Today carries the anchor's name in the titles again, just like it used to in the old BBC World studio. "World News Today with George Alagiah". "World News Today with Nik Gowing".
But no titles for Zeinab Badawi's bulletin for some reason - just plain old "World News Today".
Floating presenters must not get their name placed in the titles. Lyse Doucet did the Nik Gowing WNT yesterday and her name wasn't included on the newswall.
Owen Thomas doing WBR today alongside Martine Dennis on the early shift. Blast from the past.
What I can't understand is how come the BBC World News set, N8 - seems to get a lot more attention; maintenance wise than the BBC News channel's N6? Seems somewhat unfair.
The News Channel studio is off-air from 0100-0500 isn't it - so maintenance can happen between these hours with no obvious on-air visibility.
The BBC World studio is on-air pretty much 24/7 though - so any maintenance is likely to have an on-screen knock-on.
Additionally the News Channel studio is in a purpose-built (though far from ideal) studio, whereas BBC World is in a newsroom studio.
This has a couple of implications. The air con and infrastructure in the newsroom is not studio-grade - and may well require a lot more routine maintenance, and stuff like electrical safety testing of newsroom equipment (that isn't present in a pure studio) may also cause disturbance.
Funny to see Owen on WBR today but he was very very good. Like Sally Bundock, he's very natural doing the show... not at all forced like that crazy Aaron Hazlehurst who's just plain annoying... a reject from the Richard Quest style of presenting.
Yes, he was good. Indeed, as I mentioned above, the pairing was a blast from the past! I recall 13/14 years ago seeing Martine Dennis anchoring the news whilst Owen Thomas did the Business News in the early years of BBC World.
What I can't understand is how come the BBC World News set, N8 - seems to get a lot more attention; maintenance wise than the BBC News channel's N6? Seems somewhat unfair.
The News Channel studio is off-air from 0100-0500 isn't it - so maintenance can happen between these hours with no obvious on-air visibility.
The BBC World studio is on-air pretty much 24/7 though - so any maintenance is likely to have an on-screen knock-on.
Additionally the News Channel studio is in a purpose-built (though far from ideal) studio, whereas BBC World is in a newsroom studio.
This has a couple of implications. The air con and infrastructure in the newsroom is not studio-grade - and may well require a lot more routine maintenance, and stuff like electrical safety testing of newsroom equipment (that isn't present in a pure studio) may also cause disturbance.
Worzel seems to have a very short term memory, many a weekend on News 24 came from either N6 or TC7 with the overnights in N9 while N8 was closed for maintenance. N8 is still the same studio, it still requires the same maintenance it always had.