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Earlie37
Worzel posted:
I just found this picture on LJ Rich's Flikr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ljrich/5631925846/

It says on her text underneath 'view from media cafe - spiral staircase and the news gallery'.

I only comment because it looks like she's talking about the big glass box where the news channel is supposed be situated, but she says it's the gallery. Mistake?


I think she is referring to the "gallery" above where the studio will be located. I think she means "gallery" as in viewing area, not necessarily gallery as in a tv studio gallery Wink The studio is below - you can just make it out with the cardboard boxes in it.
GE
thegeek Founding member
A great set of photos from around TVC from the past few years, including some of the lesser-seen bits of the building, and some which have been locked up for quite some time:

http://www.eternaldreams.co.uk/bbc-tvc
MO
Moz
thegeek posted:
A great set of photos from around TVC from the past few years, including some of the lesser-seen bits of the building, and some which have been locked up for quite some time:

http://www.eternaldreams.co.uk/bbc-tvc

Why do they never use this shot on the news? Looks great...


(oops - the orginal pic on that website is huge, hope they don't mind that I've rescaled it and uploaded here..._

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Also, what's below the doughnut? Never knew there were windows in the middle and something below it...

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Last edited by Moz on 27 March 2012 4:00pm - 2 times in total
GE
thegeek Founding member
Moz posted:
Also, what's below the doughnut? Never knew there were windows in the middle and something below it...
There's office space down there - later on, you can see a photo taken from inside it.

VT was originally based down here, so that there could be cable runs of equal length to each of the main block studios.
BA
Bail Moderator
Moz posted:
Why do they never use this shot on the news? Looks great...

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It's a good shot because it was taken with a smaller SLR camera with a wide lens that's practically on the desk itself. The studio cameras on their peds wouldn't be able to go over the desk light that, and they couldn't get that close anyway because the peds would hit the base of the rostrum (baking tray).
PE
Pete Founding member
I knew there was an old part of Stage 1 for cyclorama however I never knew it was quite so massive. How on earth has that not been redone into offices or something useful? Surely its been out of actions for years if not decades.
MW
Mike W
Pete posted:
I knew there was an old part of Stage 1 for cyclorama however I never knew it was quite so massive. How on earth has that not been redone into offices or something useful? Surely its been out of actions for years if not decades.


It was Eastenders' for a bit I think :S

Locations or somesuch.
JO
joshtoday
In response to someone above the left spiral staircase will be seen from the bbc news channel studio as the set will be at a slight angle.
JO
joshtoday
I have a few more pictures for you of the BBC News studios. some of them have already been seen but i thought i would upload them anyway. Sorry about the quality.


BBC News Channel studio:
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BBC News Channel and bulletins:
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BBC World
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Newsnight, politics show and so on:
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Newsnight set:
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FO
fodg09
The News Channel set looks great.
CH
chris
fodg09 posted:
The News Channel set looks great.


It does indeed look superb.

These from some sort of in-house mag?
JO
joshtoday
As i work at the new broadcasting house I was given these images, not in a mag just a folder.

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