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(September 2010)

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IS
Inspector Sands
Steve in Pudsey posted:
I would imagine it will be a pilot shadowing what's happening in N6 in the same way that they did a non-broadcast Match of the Day from Salford while TC5 was on air.

Yes, although they would probably do the pilots for the main bulletins after the proper one goes out on air - at 1:30, 6:30, 10:30. I used to work on a regional news programme that moved buildings and the our rehearsals were at 7:00, so we could get over all the packages and use the same live reporters.

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Given that the galleries in NBH are only set up to work with one studio floor, I suspect that having them work with a studio floor on the other side of London would complicate things so much it wouldn't be a very useful test.

Yes, there's no point in doing it. Testing/piloting/rehearsals are to get the new facilities ready to go on air, the old one isn't going to be part of it so there's no point involving it.

There's a lot more to it than just making sure the studio works too. They need to pilot the programmes from end to end, for example do the edit systems work and can the system cope with heavy demand
GE
Generic
noggin posted:


Having said that - meeting rooms are much scarcer in newer BBC buildings than they used to be - as they take up space that isn't utilised 100% of the time...

NBH has a plethora of meeting rooms and meeting spaces....around 80 according to the Pravda introduction talk. Not all though are massive, so some standing/perching is sometimes necessary.
DK
DanielK
What are tehir plans for substitute studios, like if one is down for maintenance? Are there virtual receations of each, or will they just perch themselves on a desk in the newsroom, like 5News?
MW
Mike W
DanielK posted:
What are tehir plans for substitute studios, like if one is down for maintenance? Are there virtual receations of each, or will they just perch themselves on a desk in the newsroom, like 5News?


Probably the latter, virtual is something the BBC are desperate to move away from for Network!
DK
DanielK
Okay, what are they doing for elections? Moving the center desks from the newsroom and putting in a news desk or what?
PE
Pete Founding member
DanielK posted:
Okay, what are they doing for elections? Moving the center desks from the newsroom and putting in a news desk or what?


Well the plan is to have everyone take their desks into the street and then a hydraulic desk will raise out of the floor. The meeting tower is actually designed to hold a swing-o-meter from the top floor that'll swing across the entire atrium. Jeremy Vine meanwhile will be on the roof as all the buildings on Regent Street will be floodlit for graphics
GE
Generic
DanielK posted:
What are tehir plans for substitute studios, like if one is down for maintenance? Are there virtual receations of each, or will they just perch themselves on a desk in the newsroom, like 5News?


Mosart allows scripts to be dragged from one studio to another, so although there are several,studios, they are all interchangeable.
GE
Generic
DanielK posted:
Okay, what are they doing for elections? Moving the center desks from the newsroom and putting in a news desk or what?


The next election day will not be done from W1.
NE
Neil
noggin posted:
Neil posted:

Thought so for the Olympics stuff as it did all look really good in HD during the sportsday programming. Presumably the production for the news during the Olympics was all done in the N6 gallery at TVC which is HD?


No - N6 is entirely SD. None of the news galleries at TVC are HD - the move to W1 is when they get HD facilities.

The Lund Point BBC News studios for the Olympics were HD. For BBC One HD to get an HD News programme a non-News studio (TC4) in TVC had to be used (gallery only) to hub between Lund Point (in HD), Sport News in Salford (in HD) and N6 (in SD and upconverted) and produce a feed for BBC One. There were 3 or 4 directors involved (Lund Point, TC4, N6 and Salford Sport News) to make the show rather than the normal 1 or 2 (N6 and Salford Sport News)

The HD sources from Lund Point, Salford (and AIUI some local replays) were thus able to be routed to BBC One HD through TC4 staying in HD without going anywhere near SD N6. N6 was used to play-in SD material to TC4, and possibly also to sub-route SD outside sources?

Olympic Breakfast and Olympic Sportsday came from the BBC Sport studio, and the individual cameras in that studio were fibred up to Salford, to allow the HD galleries in Salford to produce the shows.


Cheers Noggin, interesting info. I didn't know much about Lund Point but found out it's a 60's tower block the beeb utilised the top five floors of for their Olympics studios. It was really nice seeing the news and footage in HD, guess that's a glimpse of what's to come once it's all at NBH.

So do news feeds for Breakfast at Salford still downlink to TVC and then sent over to Salford?
NG
noggin Founding member
Neil posted:

So do news feeds for Breakfast at Salford still downlink to TVC and then sent over to Salford?


Would expect regional circuits to route directly to Salford - no need to route via TVC (the internal Raman system doesn't need to route that way) - unless there is some way that Salford interoperate with SCAR at TVC

Satellite feeds may well be downlinked at TVC by Satops - don't know if News in Salford also does its own downlinking.
MO
Moz
Generic posted:
DanielK posted:
Okay, what are they doing for elections? Moving the center desks from the newsroom and putting in a news desk or what?


The next election day will not be done from W1.

They've said that TVC will continue to be used as studios, so I presume TC1 will continue to be used for elections?
GE
Generic
Moz posted:
Generic posted:
DanielK posted:
Okay, what are they doing for elections? Moving the center desks from the newsroom and putting in a news desk or what?


The next election day will not be done from W1.

They've said that TVC will continue to be used as studios, so I presume TC1 will continue to be used for elections?


The issue will be the connectivity with the outside world which exists currently. There AFAIK been no discussion about the Central Apps Room. Without this, TC1 in itself is just a studio.

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