Broadcasting House, Salford Quays & TVC

I notice there appears to be a bank of lights running along the beam in that picture of the newsroom. Wonder if they're for parts of the newsroom that may be used as presentation bits or just for snazzy lighting effects?

Also what are those bins on a hatrack things next to the red armchairs?

For the Twitter picture, both desks look incredibly low though, especially the one furthest away?

For Broadcasting House, when I first saw the lighting, I thought maybe that area could be used for election coverage at a guess.

If you use the plasma that's on Daybreak, you don't have bevels

In response to House...

If this is to be BBC World News's studio (or STUDIO C), then I'm betting it will only be used for World News bulletins and Business News (from the small desk), and that the flexible studio (STUDIO B) that we've heard of will be used for GMT, Impact, The Hub, World News Today and Newsnight during the week and Sunday Politics & Andrew Marr on Sunday.

Presumably unless the News Channel is to share its studio with the main bulletins then the Virtual Reality Studio (STUDIO A) will either be where the main BBC One bulletins come from all of the time, or where the News Channel goes for the rehearsal and bulletin times. (Presumably the Virtual Reality Studio would be a big green screen room?)

It would also make sense for the BBC London Studio to be shared with other outputs, as it clearly will not get much use if it is exclusively for BBC London.


The other thing that bothers me about this is that if the studio we've seen is in the sub basement, then it wont have a view of the main newsroom. Or there could be another large office space that takes up the sub-basement level.

OR... the final option... this is not one of the four studios in the sub basement, and in fact is on the same level as Studio E, with a view out onto the newsroom.

Thin bezels don't currently extend to 103" plasma screens.

Doesn't nees to be one whole plasma unit

Once again, that leads to a BARCO effect, they look HORRID.

Can't really see the point of this...

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It won't be seen from Studio E.

Are these them? :L Or am I totally wrong?
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It's a worse effect, since the bezels are thick enough to make the joins visible from afar.

Which raises the question of whether there will be a presentation point from this mezzanine.

How about a 'track' cam stretching one side of the ceiling, which would give great views of that circular screen and the newsroom below?

Am I getting ahead of myself? Probably...