Broadcasting House, Salford Quays & TVC

I've seen even worse on South Today, one of those pointless 'one journalist interviewing another' pieces, with one sat in the newsroom, the other in the studio.

It started in 12/10/2009 using various clips studios in Bush House, here is the promo for the first bulletin. Later it moved into into one of the clip studios in BH, before a brief escape to Lund Point for the olympics. If you are feeling suitably bored, you can find over 1000 Spanish bulletins here to watch.

Full channels maybe not, however the model of producing bulletins like the Spanish bulletin which can be syndicated to partner networks is expanding. It started with the Turkish news bulletin in partnership with NTV which has now gone daily, and a finance bulletin for CNBC has spun off in the last couple of months. There is also daily bulletin from the Russians carried by Dozhd TV which began earlier in the year.

The popular radio programme Focus on Africa now provides a daily TV programme for World News in English, with the Swahili service providing a daily programme based on their Dira ya Dunia radio programme for Star TV in Tanzania and QTV in Kenya. There are probably some smaller scale productions I've missed off, one programme a week sort of size, and there are a couple of languages I've seen piloting recently.

When it was announced some time ago that some languages would be gaining TV services, self contained programmes for partner networks based on the proven Turkish model was all that was really planned. I agree it's unlikely another full service TV network like ATV and PTV will launch under the current Licence Fee settlement, however if the right partner network came along anything is possible.

Looks like of the the medium GP (General Purpose) studios in NBH. They are for use by any of the English radio news networks, so you are as likely to find Radio 4 in one as 5 Live or World Service. Only Radio 1/1Xtra have dedicated studios in NBH up on the 8th floor, sometimes referred to as Parfitt's Penthouse.

Midlands Today too, before they changed the set. Don't remember seeing any since then.

Thanks for that, how many do they have?

BBC London used to do them occasionally with someone in the newsroom even though the studio was in the newsroom... you could see the guest over the shoulder of the presenter

Doesn't World do dtls with a guest sitting a few feet away from the presenter?

BBC's F1 coverage has been known to do two ways with both parties in each other's backgrounds.

I believe they have in the past done interviews with a guest sitting in the pod just feet away, but these are normally on programmes such as The Hub which I assume is just because of the way the set is for these programmes.

Doesn't that usually happen when the time it would take the guest to walk over would be far too long, and a two-way would be easier?

Tales from S1

S1 was TVC's main radio studio - home of Today, World at One, and PM. I believe all three will have moved over to BH by next Monday.

Sometimes it's felt that a reporter in the newsroom is bringing viewers the latest on a developing story, perhaps one where the pictures from the scene haven't yet made it back to base (or a sat truck hasn't arrived on site).

The newsroom cameras were deliberately designed when News24 launched to be quick and easy to set up, often with little technical assistance. Many have since been redesigned but a lot remain easy to use and are a quick and safe way of getting a live to air. Also bear in mind that for some bulletins with limited staffing, accommodating a reporter in the studio will involve camera repositions, extra mics and so-on. A newsroom camera DTL is often more easy to achieve with limited people than a studio interview.