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Relaunch & beyond (October 2005)

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JO
Johnnie
cat posted:
Out of interest, have we actually seen any output from Studio B yet?

The press release at the time stated that "The newsroom itself seats 70 journalists, has eight presentation points, is equipped with 12 cameras, two jimmy jibs and – for the first time – Sky News has a separate studio (Studio B). "

For a start, I haven't personally noticed eight presentation points, but they seem to move about randomly to be honest. But I've seen absolutely nothing of the second studio.


Studio B is a VR studio. it was used by Martin Stanford during the General Election, althought i've not seen it used since then.
GR
Greg
cat posted:
Out of interest, have we actually seen any output from Studio B yet?

The press release at the time stated that "The newsroom itself seats 70 journalists, has eight presentation points, is equipped with 12 cameras, two jimmy jibs and – for the first time – Sky News has a separate studio (Studio B). "

For a start, I haven't personally noticed eight presentation points, but they seem to move about randomly to be honest. But I've seen absolutely nothing of the second studio.


I have noticed 8...

1. Normal Desk
2. World News Tonight Desk
3. News Wall
4. Stairs
5. Behind the desk
6. Forward of the desk
7. Balcony
8. 100% Newsroom view (For example, used for short news updates during Saturday and Sunday Live)
JA
jamesmd
Greg posted:
cat posted:
Out of interest, have we actually seen any output from Studio B yet?

The press release at the time stated that "The newsroom itself seats 70 journalists, has eight presentation points, is equipped with 12 cameras, two jimmy jibs and – for the first time – Sky News has a separate studio (Studio B). "

For a start, I haven't personally noticed eight presentation points, but they seem to move about randomly to be honest. But I've seen absolutely nothing of the second studio.


I have noticed 8...

1. Normal Desk
2. World News Tonight Desk
3. News Wall
4. Stairs
5. Behind the desk
6. Forward of the desk
7. Balcony
8. 100% Newsroom view (For example, used for short news updates during Saturday and Sunday Live)


no, you've just listed the camera views.
TW
Time Warp
Greg posted:

I have noticed 8...

1. Normal Desk
2. World News Tonight Desk
3. News Wall
4. Stairs
5. Behind the desk
6. Forward of the desk
7. Balcony
8. 100% Newsroom view (For example, used for short news updates during Saturday and Sunday Live)


There's 2 for the newswall; behind the podium and also further up the walkway (used mainly on Sat/Sun Live and Sunrise).

1. and 2. are preety much the same thing though; the presenting is coming from the desk, which we know can come from any angle.

8.? By that do you meant the section of the studio used for interviews on Saturday/Sunday Live and The Sky Report?
DU
Dunedin
Perhaps the old Sky News studio/building is being converted into Studio B?

Surely you wouldn't call an empty space (a VR studio) studio B?
JO
Joshua
I think the old sky news studio is up for sale
JO
Johnnie
josh205 posted:
I think the old sky news studio is up for sale

I heard Sky Vegas and Sky Sports News were bidding for it.
GR
Greg
Time Warp posted:
Greg posted:

I have noticed 8...

1. Normal Desk
2. World News Tonight Desk
3. News Wall
4. Stairs
5. Behind the desk
6. Forward of the desk
7. Balcony
8. 100% Newsroom view (For example, used for short news updates during Saturday and Sunday Live)


There's 2 for the newswall; behind the podium and also further up the walkway (used mainly on Sat/Sun Live and Sunrise).

1. and 2. are preety much the same thing though; the presenting is coming from the desk, which we know can come from any angle.

8.? By that do you meant the section of the studio used for interviews on Saturday/Sunday Live and The Sky Report?


I think I can say that 8 is just a diffrent view of 5 and The section of the studio used for interviews on Saturday and Sunday Live, etc.

Anyway, there is clearly 8.
BC
Blake Connolly Founding member
Umm.. let's have a go at this:

1. The desk (whatever way it's facing)
2. The newswall
3. Podium in front of the newswall
4. L-shaped desk in middle of studio
5. The "shoebox" (Sky Report)
6. Stairs
7. Balcony
8. CSO screen

Not exactly MSNBC, but anyway...
CA
cat
Dunedin posted:
Perhaps the old Sky News studio/building is being converted into Studio B?

Surely you wouldn't call an empty space (a VR studio) studio B?


Well, of course you can.

If it has cameras, lighting, a production gallery... what else do you want to call it?

It doesn't matter if it's got anything in or not - a lot of studios are empty much of the time anyway.

I'm surprised they haven't used it for one of the actual shows. I'd have thought the Sky Report coming from there would have made sense, to make it look entirely distinctive.
NG
noggin Founding member
cat posted:
Dunedin posted:
Perhaps the old Sky News studio/building is being converted into Studio B?

Surely you wouldn't call an empty space (a VR studio) studio B?


Well, of course you can.

If it has cameras, lighting, a production gallery... what else do you want to call it?

It doesn't matter if it's got anything in or not - a lot of studios are empty much of the time anyway.

I'm surprised they haven't used it for one of the actual shows. I'd have thought the Sky Report coming from there would have made sense, to make it look entirely distinctive.


Cost would be a factor.

If you want to switch from the main Sky News studio to a secondary studio for live programming you'd need to double crew. Given that Sky's main News studio is probably running at higher crewing levels than before they probably wouldn't want to do this routinely...
NG
noggin Founding member
Dunedin posted:

Surely you wouldn't call an empty space (a VR studio) studio B?


Dunno why not - if it has cameras, a lighting grid, a production gallery etc. then it is still a studio. A studio doesn't cease to become a studio because it doesn't have a permanent set rigged within it. After all most of the studios at TV Centre are empty for at least some of the time each week - and many of them don't have fixed sets.

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