BBC Alba

Smaller screen installed for dry running which began today!

Larger screen now housed in the Gaelic newsroom......looks nice but I suspect we won't be keeping it that long!

I do love that they've copied the Glasgow bulletin control room design for the control room in Inverness. This is even though time and time again over the past year the Glasgow setup has not worked properly and takes more people to operate than was ever initially intended.

What the hell is that ???

Is this a real BBC service broadcasting from, what looks like, someone's kitchen or something!? There are strip lights above the desk! And talking of the desk, why's it got a bit of plywood on top?

I would hazard a guess that it's there to protect it from damage. I doubt it's going to be there when they start broadcasting.

Like N8?

Like nearly every studio. They're called house lights... You need to see what you're doing when the TV lights used for broadcasting aren't switched on after all...

Sure that is a studio built in an office space - the ceiling is far lower than ideal, and the space obviously small.

However the presence of striplights are hardly an indicator of anything...



Presumably, and quite sensibly, whilst they're working in the studio they are protecting the desktop from scratches? Or maybe it hasn't been delivered yet?

There's something very BBC Channel Islands about that set.

Or "working lights" in a theatre, where "house lights" are the ones illuminating the auditorium.

About the same size target audience !

Not quite. There are more than 3 times the number of Channel Islanders (200,000) as people speaking Gaelic (60,000).

Don't tread on his gag, Stu.

"Sure that is a studio built in an office space - the ceiling is far lower than ideal, and the space obviously small."


You'd be right, it was an office a few months ago.............