BBC News thread

This new studio had better be bloody stunning then. Nearly 3 months in a temporary studio??

Think of it as not so much "stunning" as the old studio with a few new pieces of furniture, different colours and people in the background.

not as good as Peter Gibbs screaming GOOOD MORNING in the afternoon though.

Two weeks - I shall mark it on my calendar - oh yes. I have to say they really have improved the CSO so much since day one when it was really obvious.

I thought that they replaced the CSO area with one of those touch scree TV things, I am sure someone round here will know for sure.

After Correspondent last night on BBC2 there was an interactive forum hosted by Lyse Doucet interviewing Jeremy Bowen.

It was broadcast from a Studio that looked like a shrunk version of the BBC 1/6/10 o'clock News Studio. The background was a Black and Red "wavy" effect. On it was some four digit numbers and some square effects, similar to those used on the Breakfast graphics. It looked like this could be a static image of something that moves.

The studio looked the same size as the studio that is occasionally used for interactive forums before, but obviously with a makeover.

Old Style

Could this have been a first look at the new "style" for BBC News 24?

There is a replay of this interview online, but it very low quality so the designs on the background do not come accross at all.

Correspondent

Si!

Nope - that was a touch plasma that was used in front of the CSO. Sometimes the CSO was used to create an artificial background behind the touch plasma, othertimes a black curtain (or cyc) was pulled across in front of the CSO screen. The touch plasma hasn't been used recently - instead the CSO area was used for the reporter+gfx sequences that looked like they were coming from a virtual balcony.

Didn't Sky spend roughly the same amount of time in their temporary CSO studio a few years ago when they were rebuilding their gallery - before they relaunched their studio set. (In other words the set wasn't relaunched when they moved back in?)

I wonder why they stopped using those graphics on the left of the three-line information graphics (used for the 1st anniversary of 9/11, and something to do with Europe slightly after that)? I'm not that keen on the current set of graphics, but all that made it look a lot nicer.

Well, my question was answered - she was on Breakfast this morning as normal. I reckon she looked pretty miserable though - not her usual sparkly self.

Here is the first version of my BBC News ticker
Enjoy!?

What's known so far

Definetly Confirmed
-- New Set
-- New Music

Likely
-- New Titles
-- New Astons/Graphics

As I said somewhere above, I heard that the relaunch date may have slipped into December, does anybody else have something more concrete?

What about a presenter reshuffle? I think it would be good to do that. Make some people more compatible. Move Amrollywala, Gosling, Alistair Yates and Peter Dobbie to different slots.

I also hope the weather gets changed, with different graphics and having it live most of the time.

There should also be more business news - with perhaps stings into the Business & Sport like on BBC World.