New CBBC studio

I thought this deserved its own topic as it's of specific interest to the presentation community.

CBBC start broadcasting from Salford Quays on Monday from the new studio which is a revamped and refreshed office with some new features. The big green desk remains, but the new studio is much bigger and has a window overlooking Manchester.

It's also farewell to London who will be presenting her last day on Sunday.

Newsround too have a new studio which is pretty much like the one they have for the BBC One main bulletin with video screens.

Can't wait for this, although CBBC wasn't as good as it was in my childhoos. Do you mean Barcos for video screens?

Do Red Bee still play out the programmes into CBBC on One? Will that arrangement continue with the Salford move?

Don't like the sound of that. What's Newsround going to share its studio with in the near future?

I think Newsround is getting its own studio so it can look the same for the summaries as for the main programme.

Is the studio in Bridge House? Also how big would you say the studio size is? One Show size?

This is as much as I know, courtesy of @chrisckmedia

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg735/scaled.php?tn=0&server=735&filename=skzoa.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640

Well if that's true that's OK. It's just unusual for the BBC to dedicate anything its own studio these days.

Does this mean CBBC output will be in HD?

In the other thread, it says that Newsround moves later on this year. Is this confirmed?

Newsround moves mid-October, and the arrangements with Red Bee will continue for playout. The screens in the set aren't barco screens, they're just LCD screens.

The Newsround studio is sharing with the CBBC office, half a studio each. The CBBC office is pretty much the same size as the current office, but because of the new layout it looks so much bigger, and because the cameras will be on the Newsround half of the set during output, they can pull back a lot further and make things look bigger.

The studio is in the studio block at Media City, and is fully HD equipped. I think it's all being squeezed down to SD before transmission though - the CBBC channel itself is SD anyway and for consistency the links for BBC One will be squashed down too.

Will there be links in the morning of the 5th? Will they be the pre recorded ones like before the summer?

Tweet from @thisisFoxx: A bit of faux-live CBBC at Media City http://t.co/r8O1MVx

Picture shows a bit of the new set alongside the old one...