I've no idea how they'd do it in Bristol, unless they comandeer the Deal or No Deal Studio at Endemol West!?
Maybe the balcony in the Mailbox would work - where they do the Politics Show in the Midlands?
possibly although the view is a little dark during the winter evenings - however i guess when the cube is built itll look a little more inspiring. and of course brum only have the standard regional news gallery plus mini gallery, i would have thought it might cause issues if a network nationwide team needed use of it immediately before the regional news. but who knows.
I've no idea how they'd do it in Bristol, unless they comandeer the Deal or No Deal Studio at Endemol West!?
Maybe the balcony in the Mailbox would work - where they do the Politics Show in the Midlands?
possibly although the view is a little dark during the winter evenings - however i guess when the cube is built itll look a little more inspiring. and of course brum only have the standard regional news gallery plus mini gallery, i would have thought it might cause issues if a network nationwide team needed use of it immediately before the regional news. but who knows.
This is of course the big problem with this whole idea - the network production facilities for a live studio programme no longer exist at the Network Production Centres! There are no studio areas (proper studios or otherwise) at Bristol, Birmingham or Manchester and certainly no spare production galleries - they're all in use at 6.30 for the regional programmes. Of course, the BBC could chose to make the programme at Granada where the BBC's joint venture 3SixtyMedia Manchester studios are.
It seems that someon in Marketing or News Management has conceived this idea without asking anyone whether it's going to be possible. As Richard Taylor said a few posts ago, there are not enough regional contribution circuits to produce the programme anywhere other than London - probably why Nationwide was made in London in the first place. They would probably just manage to make it if they parked a scanner near the chosen NPC and uplinked the programme to London by Satellite and used the contribution circuits to carry stuff into the scanner, but that's hardly a cheap option and if they make the programme at 3SixtyMedia (Granada) using the regional contribution circuits might not be an option anyway.
I think you're making a wee mistake here... because the programme is described as being "Nationwide-style" it doesn't necessarily mean it will be in the actual style of Nationwide. It almost certainly won't! TV has moved on since 1983.
Obviously a major element of Nationwide was the link-ups with regional studios... whether for items introduced by the regional presenters or down-the-line interviews with guests.
I'll bet this new programme will consist mostly of pre-recorded packs and live hits with reporters or guests at a satellite truck. In which case the issue of old-fashioned regional contribution circuits wouldn't arise.
Even if, say, the programme was made at 360 Media's studios and they wanted a down-the-line guest in, for example, Glasgow it's still easy enough to make a lines booking. Channel 4 News has put guests in BBC Scotland's studios before.
As for the phrase "Nationwide-style" it's a bit of journalistic shorthand, although I can certainly see how Nationwide appears to have been the inspiration for this new venture.
When the integrated News Hour at 1800 began in 1999 some papers wrote complete nonsense about how the BBC was trying to recreate Nationwide with an hour of national and regional news and predicted the return of skateboarding ducks! Of course, all that happened was that the two programmes which had existed anyway were tied together more closely.
I think the BBC is fooling itself in thinking that the extended slot to 730 will pull viewers away from Emmerdale.
The 7-730 slot is often filled with programmes such as Watchdog and they don't pull viewers away from Emmerdale.
Plus at 730 when Regional Programmes such as Inside Out are aired again they perform badly against Coronation Street.
Thumbs up for at least experimenting - but I think the viewers will give the experiment the thumbs down.
I suspect the timing of this nationwide "type" programme is part of an experiment with news broacasting. There was a lot of effort recently put into deciding if the regional programmes were on at the right time. The problem was that the results showed that different parts of the country wanted their local news at different times. Also its worth remembering the local news pilots are generating news stories so there will plenty of material around and it will be cheap.
As for the old Nationwide (yes I remember Michael Barratt) I seem to remember the news used to start at 5.40 on BBC1 and nationwide at 6.00 going quickly into 'the news from your part of the country' and back to Frank & Sue Lawly etal around 6.25.
It will be an interesting experiment and the way the land lies at the BBC at present, if there is even a hint of success it could well be rolled out on a permenant basis.
For those too young to remember try this
http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/bbcnews/bbcnationalnewsevening.html
Interesting that they will make it in one of the network production centres rather than London. For a start they no longer have network studios in Bristol or Birmingham and secondly if they're to have contributions into the networked programme like Nationwide did it's a little bit more difficult technically than it is into London.
Studio D (I think) at Manchester which does Heaven and Earth?
Well yes, Studio D at BBC Manchester is the only network production studio left in English Regions except those at Elstree. It was built for BBC Choice (the 'D' referring to digital) and is pretty small. It would do the job though if they wanted a studio based programme.
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I think the BBC is fooling itself in thinking that the extended slot to 730 will pull viewers away from Emmerdale.
The 7-730 slot is often filled with programmes such as Watchdog and they don't pull viewers away from Emmerdale.
And I wonder if anyone remembers how Watchdog started? Yep, as a slot on Nationwide, with Hugh Scully.