The layout and the way they use it. Wall screens with one permanent fake background, desk in the middle, the camera angles they use when they interview someone down the line (with screen on the side), even the small stool set up used for market updates.
I've always quite liked the look of that atrium at Bloomberg HQ - some shows actually used to be presented from the corridor with people buzzing around. Which is why it also looks a little odd to me in this CGI version -- with no one wandering past, it kind of makes Bloomberg look deserted!
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Also, given the involvement of Lightwell and David Lowe in the US relaunch - and given the similarities between the old New York newsroom set and the London set - I wonder whether we might expect a refresh of Bloomberg TV in Europe (perhaps Asia too?).
I'm a bit confused at the scheduling. Currently at 0900 BT here in the US Worldwide Exchange airs at 04000 ET. So will Worldwide Exchange continue in its place or will it be in place or will it be replaced with American based programming?
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: According to The Guardian the extra two hours will be filled with US based programming. So essentially Squawk Box Europe will end, two hours will be filled with early morning CNBC US programming and then Squawk Box US.
Reading the Guardian article - London programming will be cut from 6 to 4 hours. The current 6 hours, by my reckoning, are Squawk Box, Worldwide Exchange and European Closing Bell. (There's also an additional hour co-presented from Singapore and London - Capital Connection - but I think this is Asia-produced.) It wouldn't surprise me if European Closing Bell is being cut, and one hour of Worldwide Exchange being dropped (and perhaps the remaining hour being drawn into an expanded 4-hour Squawk).
However the schedule ends up, it's disappointing the cutbacks are happening. The CNBC London team is knowledgeable and enjoyable to watch, so it will be a shame whoever ends up leaving
I'm a bit worried how this will also hamper NBCUniversal News Groups news gathering efforts - Paris isn't a big deal but some of the Asian bureaus that may be shuttered could effect news gathering / immediate response. In the past year or so there have been a few times where a CNBC reporter reports nationally for NBC News and MSNBC before they can get a crew there.
That's a pity to hear - at one stage CNBC Europe ran a completely independent business day schedule from 5:00am-6:00pm apart from some of US Squawk Box. Now it's reduced to an opt out from the U.S. channel. Sad to see but the way things have been heading since NBC bought out Dow Jones.
That's a pity to hear - at one stage CNBC Europe ran a completely independent business day schedule from 5:00am-6:00pm apart from some of US Squawk Box.
How long ago was that? For as long as I can remember (ie going back to the launch of Sky Digital in 1998), they've only had live European programming until lunchtime, and then an hour-long European Closing Bell (or its predecessors like Europe Tonight).
I certainly remember European programming until 1300, then US in the afternoons, a short opt-out back to London and then the US schedule in the noughties (with a break for the NBC Nightly News) with CNBC Asia on from 0000 overnight.
