Broadcasting House, Salford Quays & TVC

I see it actually. Just the staircases are wrong.

Anyone might think that they knew what the building was going to look like when they rendered the backdrops.

As I asked a few months ago and was answered by someone who is in the know we are being primed for the real thing with the false backgrounds.

Nah, we've got to get in there first and bagsy all the best desks and bay space

Seriously though, WS has to move in first because the Bush lease is up at the end of 2012. News are under no such pressure to move out of TVC. It is very sensible to wait until after WS have moved in and the Olympics are well out the way before going anywhere.

Though how many times has the lease been extended?

Has there been any more say on which studios may potentially go to which channels/ services? It'll be interesting to see what effect Breakfast moving up north and Working Lunch coming to an end has on studio and crew allocation for the nationals, newsnight and the Sunday politics programmes. Isn't Newsround moving too?

Newsnight is going with CBBC to Salford too I believe. So a theoretical TC7-type studio in Broadcasting House would only really produce Newsnight and the six during the weekdays. I can't see how they'd manage without one though, what with all the other recorded programmes such as Newswatch produced there.

As I understand it, the BBC has the option every few years to give notice to terminate or renew. This time notice has been given to terminate. I'm afraid this is it now, there is no going back. Some people in WS are still in denial about the move, thinking that the current reduction in spending will make it too expensive. WS will be out of Bush in 2012.

You mean Newsround is following CBBC, not Newsnight, surely? It's a shame Newsnight broadcasts so close to the Ten, or they could share the same studios.

Also, let's not forget the current TC7-based programmes, like Newswatch and Hardtalk.


Edit: Also, does anyone know what kinds of facilities the galleries will have in the new studios? Presumably the allocated studios for the NC and WN will have separate play out areas (this is right, isn't it?) to enable two different feeds to go out? Isn't that one of the main problems with N6, or am I getting my wires crossed?

I can't see any logical way that moving to the new BH would be more expensive, now that it's virtually complete especially as the WS will end up being merged with domestic TV/Radio

I'm not sure what you mean, the BBC NC studio - N6 and the BBC World studio - N8 have seperate output for most of the day

As far as I know, playout for BBC World News is still done by Red Bee as it always has been. Their studio (whichever it is) is just a source into 'presentation' and then to air. I suspect it would be a bit too much of an undertaking for news to handle the multiple outputs of World, especially in a gallery.

I think House might be getting mixed up with the News Channel and the One O'Clock and Ten O'Clock News sharing the same studio and gallery.

Providing that the same practice of the News Channel and the 1 and 10 sharing the same studio and gallery continues at BH (and given further financial constraints, even if management were inclined to separate them again the cost will cause those thoughts to disappear), the News Channel really would benefit from being able to break away for live events and breaking news if they happen during a BBC One simulcast. Of course at the moment they can break away to show BBC World News output, but there are the odd events that happen that don't have any international news value, but which are important to UK viewers and should be shown if possible. Would a basic small gallery with a one-camera newsroom/green screen position cost so much to outweigh the value of the NC being able to break away from simulcasts when needed?