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MO
Moz
m_in_m posted:
House posted:
I thought I read on here or in an article that the Andrew Marr show would move a week or two before the Sunday Politics, with Newsnight to follow?


This took a while to hunt down but:

Media Boy posted:

TC7 will close first, once NN is up and running in Studio B, because it needs to be handed back to resources.
Marr will be the first programme from Studio B in early Sept, with Sunday Politics a week or two later and NN on air soon after that.
Once TC7 is shut expect the 1700 to move to N8, to allow the Six record & rehearsal, and the full 2100 hour likewise.
This is all, obviously, dependant on timelines not shifting too much!

So nothing in Studio B until September, but World News before the Olympics? This means that World News will be first in?
SR
SomeRandomStuff
Moz posted:
m_in_m posted:
House posted:
I thought I read on here or in an article that the Andrew Marr show would move a week or two before the Sunday Politics, with Newsnight to follow?


This took a while to hunt down but:

Media Boy posted:

TC7 will close first, once NN is up and running in Studio B, because it needs to be handed back to resources.
Marr will be the first programme from Studio B in early Sept, with Sunday Politics a week or two later and NN on air soon after that.
Once TC7 is shut expect the 1700 to move to N8, to allow the Six record & rehearsal, and the full 2100 hour likewise.
This is all, obviously, dependant on timelines not shifting too much!

So nothing in Studio B until September, but World News before the Olympics? This means that World News will be first in?

This article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/16049694

and the BH Newsletter from November found on this page:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/broadcastinghouse/news_events.shtml

as well as various in-the-know people on this forum, and Ros Atkins, have confirmed that BBC World News will be moved in before the olympics.

However, that is assuming timescales don't slip.

We should find out more soon, as we are due a new BH Newsletter before the end of February.
HO
House
I wonder if that means World will also broadcast from Studio B, which it's been suggested on here they will use for some programmes, or if they'll wait until Newsnight and co move?
MO
Moz
SomeRandomStuff posted:
Moz posted:
m_in_m posted:
House posted:
I thought I read on here or in an article that the Andrew Marr show would move a week or two before the Sunday Politics, with Newsnight to follow?


This took a while to hunt down but:

Media Boy posted:

TC7 will close first, once NN is up and running in Studio B, because it needs to be handed back to resources.
Marr will be the first programme from Studio B in early Sept, with Sunday Politics a week or two later and NN on air soon after that.
Once TC7 is shut expect the 1700 to move to N8, to allow the Six record & rehearsal, and the full 2100 hour likewise.
This is all, obviously, dependant on timelines not shifting too much!

So nothing in Studio B until September, but World News before the Olympics? This means that World News will be first in?

This article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/16049694

and the BH Newsletter from November found on this page:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/broadcastinghouse/news_events.shtml

as well as various in-the-know people on this forum, and Ros Atkins, have confirmed that BBC World News will be moved in before the olympics.

However, that is assuming timescales don't slip.

We should find out more soon, as we are due a new BH Newsletter before the end of February.

The Ariel article says it all...

Jan 2012 - Tech Ops support teams
March 2012 - World Service language hubs journalists, first to broadcast from the new integrated HQ
Before July 2012 - Newsnight & World Service News (i.e radio - not World News TV)
Late summer 2012 - World TV, News Online, most of Business and the majority of the News specialists
Autumn 2012 - Domestic radio news along with Radio 1 and 1Xtra
1st half 2013 - domestic tv news and the weather operation
GR
gregmc
I think somebody has been playing with the fire alarm systems at Quay House, evacuated again this morning bringing 5Live and Radio Manchester off air for a brief period.

http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1486334_fire-alarm-at-mediacity-forces-bbc-radio-5-live-and-radio-manchester-off-air
OV
Orry Verducci
gregmc posted:
I think somebody has been playing with the fire alarm systems at Quay House, evacuated again this morning bringing 5Live and Radio Manchester off air for a brief period.

The unfortunate thing with the fire alarms at all the MediaCity buildings is they're not standard fire alarms, they're combined "emergency alarms", which is technical speak for "more to go wrong". It's quite possible the alarms between the buildings are linked as well, which would cause problems given the on site flats, although I'm not sure about this as the only times they've gone off when I've been there is the weekly tests.
AM
amosc100
How close is the new Blue Peter garden to the Metrolink tram stop? Was watching BBC Breakfast, this morning, with Carol coming from the New BP garden and more or less every time she did the weather I could hear the tram revving up leaving the tram stop.

Another question about the BP garden - is it wise to have it open to the public considering what happened to the original BP garden in London, and with regards to the image Salford has?
CW
Charlie Wells Moderator
amosc100 posted:
Another question about the BP garden - is it wise to have it open to the public considering what happened to the original BP garden in London, and with regards to the image Salford has?

I wouldn't be surprised if part of the reason for it being there instead of on the rooftop was cost cutting. The space which is now the BP garden would presumably have still been landscaped, open to the public, and would have required maintenance. Also if the programme got axed they wouldn't be left with a rooftop garden which hardly anyone would see or use.
MO
Moz
amosc100 posted:
How close is the new Blue Peter garden to the Metrolink tram stop? Was watching BBC Breakfast, this morning, with Carol coming from the New BP garden and more or less every time she did the weather I could hear the tram revving up leaving the tram stop.

Another question about the BP garden - is it wise to have it open to the public considering what happened to the original BP garden in London, and with regards to the image Salford has?

It's about as wise to put the garden so close to the tram stop as to put your post so close to many others discussing similar just a page or so back.
AM
amosc100
Moz posted:
amosc100 posted:
How close is the new Blue Peter garden to the Metrolink tram stop? Was watching BBC Breakfast, this morning, with Carol coming from the New BP garden and more or less every time she did the weather I could hear the tram revving up leaving the tram stop.

Another question about the BP garden - is it wise to have it open to the public considering what happened to the original BP garden in London, and with regards to the image Salford has?

It's about as wise to put the garden so close to the tram stop as to put your post so close to many others discussing similar just a page or so back.



ooooo handbags at the ready!!!! A bit snappy that, to be honest!

Plus considering pages 64 and 65 were about spooky old CCTV equipment at Boots and most of this page has been about BH, - that about 3 pages before even any mention of Salford!
DE
deejay
gregmc posted:
I think somebody has been playing with the fire alarm systems at Quay House, evacuated again this morning bringing 5Live and Radio Manchester off air for a brief period.

http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1486334_fire-alarm-at-mediacity-forces-bbc-radio-5-live-and-radio-manchester-off-air


Well that's at least three times the alarms have gone off and taken programmes off air in recent weeks. Call me old fashioned but shouldn't properly designed studio areas have lights installed to indicate there's an alarm and not klaxons and recorded PA announcements? Sounds very unprofessional in my opinion for the presenter to be apologising over a very loud PA system. That Michael Palin interview needs to get played out in full I think, I've only heard the first few minutes of it ... Smile
DE
deejay
While I'm on the subject of the design of the Radio 5 studios at MediaCity, the acoustics seem appalling to me - with more than one mic faded up you can hear a lot of open-ness - when the newsreader hands to sport for instance. From the photos I've seen, there's a lot of flat, glass walls in those studios - great for allowing people to see what's happening but terrible for sound!!

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