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Hello Mrs Hudson!
In that “confessional” thread you said you don't know what UK Today is. Here's my attempt to explain:
BBC One and BBC Two can be received via a digital satellite signal (i.e. Sky Digital), but for technological reasons they can't divide the country up into a number of regions on this medium (at least currently). So for all slots in the schedule where there would be a regional news bulletin, UK Today replaces them.
Like North West Tonight, even the 18:30 edition has a solitary presenter. The presenters are almost always female (the short bulletins within Breakfast provide the occasional exception). They tend to be BBC News 24 faces.
It features a selection of stories from across all the BBC English Regions and Nations (Wales, Scotland and NI). There isn't necessarily one story from each and every region on any one edition of UK Today – there might be, for example, two or more stories from Reporting Scotland, whilst Look North (Leeds), Points West and East Midlands Today are missed out completely. This is because they pick what they think are the most interesting stories that day.
It uses the same pre-filmed reports as the relevant regional programme. At the end of the reports, the regional programme title is heard – e.g. “This is John Smith, in Wiltshire, for South Today”. It comes from a tiny desk opposite the main BBC news desk where, for example, Huw Edwards sits to present the 6 o'clock news. There are no side shots during UK Today. A single fixed-shot camera looking STRAIGHT at the presenter is all you get. It is the same camera used for that angled shot at the end of “the 6” etc as Huw (or whoever) signs off, albeit turned around. The wall behind the UK Today presenter is a CSO wall (that's like on the weather – a blue or green wall, and the background that viewers see is put in electronically).
The background us viewers see is the red wall with lots of tiny TVs in it, from the BBC News 24 studio. It's not a static image, as the pictures on the little TVs are moving. The shot was taken at such an angle that the cream pillars of the News 24 studio can't be seen.
In that “confessional” thread you said you don't know what UK Today is. Here's my attempt to explain:
BBC One and BBC Two can be received via a digital satellite signal (i.e. Sky Digital), but for technological reasons they can't divide the country up into a number of regions on this medium (at least currently). So for all slots in the schedule where there would be a regional news bulletin, UK Today replaces them.
Like North West Tonight, even the 18:30 edition has a solitary presenter. The presenters are almost always female (the short bulletins within Breakfast provide the occasional exception). They tend to be BBC News 24 faces.
It features a selection of stories from across all the BBC English Regions and Nations (Wales, Scotland and NI). There isn't necessarily one story from each and every region on any one edition of UK Today – there might be, for example, two or more stories from Reporting Scotland, whilst Look North (Leeds), Points West and East Midlands Today are missed out completely. This is because they pick what they think are the most interesting stories that day.
It uses the same pre-filmed reports as the relevant regional programme. At the end of the reports, the regional programme title is heard – e.g. “This is John Smith, in Wiltshire, for South Today”. It comes from a tiny desk opposite the main BBC news desk where, for example, Huw Edwards sits to present the 6 o'clock news. There are no side shots during UK Today. A single fixed-shot camera looking STRAIGHT at the presenter is all you get. It is the same camera used for that angled shot at the end of “the 6” etc as Huw (or whoever) signs off, albeit turned around. The wall behind the UK Today presenter is a CSO wall (that's like on the weather – a blue or green wall, and the background that viewers see is put in electronically).
The background us viewers see is the red wall with lots of tiny TVs in it, from the BBC News 24 studio. It's not a static image, as the pictures on the little TVs are moving. The shot was taken at such an angle that the cream pillars of the News 24 studio can't be seen.