BBC News thread

Row, if indeed you are privvy to information that has been passed to you in confidence, then it seems like the *classy* thing to do would be to not mention it.

Well, after that, the one thing we're certain you know nothing about is hypocrisy.

Oh, shut up, the lot of you.



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Back to the important topic (when this all happens)...

So, what's all this then?

The BBC moves News 24 to a temporary studio, likely for more than two weeks in the middle of October.

Then, at some time after that a new News 24 set will be ready for a grand debut.

We've also heard that Mr Lowe (I hope I got his name correct) will be composing entirely new music for News 24. If this is true, and given the BBC's propensity to have all its news programmes follow the same branding style, this can only mean that the other BBC News programmes will eventually change as well.

Or does it?

Because I remember someone else also saying that the current BBC One TV News set could well be with us for a long time to come. Although it is designed to change the background from that weird "fake newsroom" to something else, and the red walls can be coloured any colour imaginable, are we about to see an end to the red colours?

We've heard that "lots of chrome" is likely. And I don't need to bother pointing out that chome and red look fine on a '57 Chevy, but not very fine as part of a television news set (far too busy).

I'm trying to square every little bit of information that's been mentioned (although I don't know how reliable each are) and come up with a complete picture of what we can expect and when.

I think the BBC might wait until after the Hutton Inquiry is over and all the controversy has settled. Then a brand new image (and a "cleaner image" at that with all the shiny chrome ... pun intended ) can be presented to the public. A sort of stylistic break with the past.

Have I missed anything?

I said that David Lowe was asked to REWORK the current News 24 music and that he was not asked to compose new music. What he did to the World music is what you'd call REWORKING, so think along those lines.

OK, "reworking....."

Does that mean that the titles and other graphics will be "reworked" or "replaced" or "unchanged" ?

Maybe this is sort of like what BBC1 News did with the 1993 revamp?

A new set, new titles and "look" but "reworked" music and generally the same presenters?

Am I getting warmer?

I'd expect it would be most likely along the lines of the daytime BBC1 titles.

Same here, which isn't that bad music actually, quite fresh and clean.

Shame about the actual visual element of it - since when have orange ovals been decent news bulletin titles!

I always get a strange craving for fried eggs whenever I see those titles.

Surely the obvious timescale is 2+ weeks for the studio build plus 1+ weeks for the presenters to practice working the new shots/ moves about the studio (I'm guessing that they'll be more than 2 presenting areas). Plus of course time for the technical team to practice. They wouln't move the current studio if it was a quick job (when they could just chromakey it). I would suggest November week 2 at the earliest.