Fox News

Agreed, a 55-inch touchscreen yet one guy is only viewing four tweets at a time on it.

The studio looks quite good, aside from giant touch screens (I can imagine they must be frustrating to use if you can only view 4 tweets..)

There's the curved newswall AND a huge video wall that takes up one whole side of the studio floor to ceiling. It looks quite light too.

That's such a large gimmick. I'm surprised more people aren't seeing through it. I half-wonder whether or not they'll have paid actors watching the tweets on those faux-iPads.

The size of the screens are there to make them show up on wide shots when on screen. No doubt they will use some better software which makes better use of the screen density, but the idea of using touch screens makes a lot of sense as the focus is on collating data, and managing it for presentation.

No doubt elements of it will make its way to Sky News soon enough

Interesting that FNC have added two new studios to their roster - Greta Van Susteren's show has just had a studio built specifically for it, as the Washington studio will be in use the hour before her new 7pm start. How many studios does that give them, now?

I think it is quite a neat way to try and translate the instant breaking news offering provided by Twitter into a television news environment - the likes of Sky News haven't adapted their tv coverage in anyway in response to the emergence of Twitter as a breaking news platform/curator, so it'll be interesting to see how, and if, this works.

Even the BBC as a matter of course, promote their reporter's twitter accounts, where as Sky decided not to use twitter to break news or offer insight that doesn't appear on air first.

Something I'm unsure about, that I hope one of you could shed some light on this, with the Fox News Deck's remit (to interrupt programming for breaking news), does this mean Shep is on standby 24/7?

yes. they keep him in a special room behind the videowall with an adrenaline drip to keep him going

Kinda strange to see Fox News investing into technology and something new in that department. The whole idea about a special BN unit/studio is interesting and innovative. The studio looks bizarre though, people look like midgets cause of those giant screens.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/7/4812630/fox-news-shepard-smith-news-deck

I just don't understand why fox has went for bigger tablets, while most others have went for hand held versions.

Here it is in action:


Very impressive, but I do feel a little sea sick. That sonar-esque sound effect isn't helping.