The election facilities at Elstree
were
used for the Scottish Referendum coverage even if the presentation of both the BBC's programmes that night came from Glasgow (I don't remember what was actually seen on air studio wise)
Last edited by Inspector Sands on 26 May 2017 2:05pm
The election facilities at Elstree were used for the Scottish Referendum coverage even if the presentation of both the BBC's programmes that night came from Glasgow (I don't remember what was actually seen on air studio wise)
Well Whataday, the term BBC Television Centre is not used any more. It is simply called Television Centre. The BBC sold it all to Stanhope Developers. They are maintaining a reduced presence in the three studios which has not been bulldozed and will operate from September.
IIRC, Captain Brownrigg never ceased to call his station "Associated-Rediffusion", even after he was pensioned off and the "Associated" was dropped from the name.
And as Whataday says, people still call it the Oxo Tower even though it isn't owned by Premier Foods. I gather the BT Tower and Tower 42 are still respectively called the Post Office Tower and the NatWest Tower by some, too...
The election facilities at Elstree
were
used for the Scottish Referendum coverage even if the presentation of both the BBC's programmes that night came from Glasgow (I don't remember what was actually seen on air studio wise)
Studio D is larger than TC1 by 1,000 Sq Ft extra space, so the impact of BBC election night is always great.
ITV have decided to just squeeze themselves into their virtual studio. Remember that 1997 and 2001 elections when they used the large space of the atrium at Grays Inn Road? Good effort from them to create a large impact on studio size.
I can be sure they will still use the recycled 2015 election studio design with the odd minor tweak.
The tweaked desk from 2015 was back last night for News at Ten.
ITN have seemed to never considered building a larger studio for their news output. They have two main studios which someone said are only 3,000 Sq Ft each at most.
They seem to rely on the virtual green screen a lot since 2004. The 2005, 2010 and 2015 elections and the 2016 referendum were all done from a virtual set. Yes, it must be cost effective, but it would be nice to see ITV News change the design a bit more.
I liked their usage of the ITN atrium at Grays Inn Road for the 1997 and 2001 elections, even using it is their virtual backdrop for 2005.
In January 2006 they kept the curved virtual newswall and desk, and just placed the atrium view in it for all news bulletins. It looked very good, and gave an excellent backdrop to the news, compared to the cold blue wilderness and broken up Big Ben clockface which they had from 2004-2006
I was never aware Jonathan Dimbleby covered ITV's coverage. So essentially the Dimbleby brothers were competing on rival channels. And Alistair Stewart in a Jeremy Vine VR sort of role?
