New BBC Arabic Studio

I'm going to bring this over from the BBC News Channel thread...


I've just taken a look at the BBC Arabic stream and it appears that the Virtual studio is actually a recreation of one of their actual studios, which appears to have been refitted. They're still using the old style straps but otherwise using a combination of NC/World graphics, using that variation of the NC titles above, with the NC globe graphic appearing on the screens, but with the World headline transition graphic. I'm not sure if this means they've lost their newsroom studio as I haven't seen it, but presenters are still seen walking about it in promos and it does appear to still look ready to appear on screen.

Will add caps as soon I find somewhere to do so!

Not convinced that it is virtual, the reflections in the screens would surely not be present in a virtual set?

Nice to see them use one of the stings effectively as an ident into a pre-recorded programme, it would be nice to see the News Channel

In the video I've quoted above it appears to be a virtual studio, but I'm saying the one I've seen on BBC Arabic tonight appears to be the real thing, due to the reflections, and also the colour difference between some of the screens!

What Studio is this?

Is that not the new studio used for the BBC London news?

The layout looks exactly the same in that shot for the BBC News in Arabic.

No it's not the BBC London studio - besides the desk and the rostrum the set itself is also quite different to the London one, which is effectively two coloured strips with some screens in-between. Whilst the Arabic studio keeps a set of screens close together, it has completely different side parts where the screen in the glass stand is - the screen also has quite a thick bezel unlike London.

It that is a virtual version in the YouTube video linked at the start of the thread, you would have to assume it's Studio A?

Arabic does have their own virtual studio, I believe. I've mentioned it when it's appeared on air before...

Studio 44D is the virtual studio in Peel Wing. It was built for BBC Arabic, and is inside their newsroom, but is also used by the daily Urdu programme:

http://wsodprogrf.bbc.co.uk/urdu/tx/sairbeen_800000.mp4

Interesting to hear the World News Today closing bed as a break filler.

Sorry for going a bit off-topic, but here's an interesting article from 1997 about the BBC's first (ambitious but short-lived) Arabic-language TV channel:

http://www.richardsonmedia.co.uk/arabic.html

The conclusion is especially intriguing: