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US Election Night: Domestic Coverage

(November 2008)

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reggieB
cylon6 posted:
Ben posted:
I'm guessing it was still a plasma though, with a greened out display so it was really being touched but with all the graphics on screen appearing/disappearing virtually.


I'd love to know how they did that. A greened out display sounds very likely to me. It was really clever though. I noticed that in 2001 ITN had a complete virtual reality studio that Alistair Stewart was working from and the only virtual reality graphics the BBC had was the swingometer. It was almost like they saw ITN and thought why didn't we do that. After that the BBC have always had a VR studio on Election night.


The BBC use the ITN studios now when they want to do big VR productions. Vine was in the same studio as Stewart used in 2001.
CY
cylon6
I didn't know that. I thought Vine was at TV Centre. With the 2005 Election, Peter Snow was in an area of Studio 1.
BE
Ben Founding member
General elections are a bit different though, I dare say for the next General election the BBC will set up their own studio and ITN will want to use theirs for ITV. The again, if the BBC are willing to pay...
CY
cylon6
I'm confused. Don't the BBC have a dedicated VR studio at Television Centre with patented technology?
LO
Londoner
Amusingly Private Eye seems to thing that Alastair Stewart was in Washington for the election.

In their review of the BBC/ITV/Sky overnight shows, they accuse both Dimbleby and Stewart of seeming jetlagged.
PE
Pete Founding member
IIRC the BBC's VR studio, TC0 became the home of cbeebies and as free d, the camera tracking system that uses barcodes in the lighting grid (?) is licenced out to generate buckets of cash.

Noggin will now correct every one of these statements.
MI
Michael
Londoner posted:
In their review of the BBC/ITV/Sky overnight shows, they accuse both Dimbleby and Stewart of seeming jetlagged.


Because of course when they present the UK election coverage, they're so alert....
SN
snarfu
It all comes down to money and since the BBC no longer have a large VR studio (although some studios have VR capabilities in small parts of them) it is cheaper to go outside to use say ITN's. Since it is already there, there is little time required to 'strike' the set - thus cutting down on costs. BBC Studios are quite expensive to hire.

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