Tribute to George Harrison

Yes, thats why they couldn't carry on with John Nicholson and Valerie Sanderson with BBC News 24, becuase the second News 24 desk is only a few metres away from the main News 24 desk, just on the other side of the cameras, so they had to simulcast on BBC TWO and NEWS 24.

They're doing all this for George Harrison? I mean, I had nothing against the guy but, y'know, it's only George Harrison!

I'll let them off this time, but if Scottish Mick from Prolapse dies, I'll be expecting the full works...

It wasn't unexpected though.

German TV had reported only about 24 hours before his death that Harrison was 'close to death,' yet this was seemingly missed by the British media. I was told about the German reports by a friend and went to have a look at our broadcaster's and newspaper's websites and couldn't find a thing on it.

Amazing that our media managed to totally miss the story, although it may have just been down to me not looking hard enough. However, if today's amount of coverage is anything to go by I shouldn't have had to look hard, the German reports should've been on the front page of every newspaper.

Couldn't they have broadcast on BBC TWO from the National News Studio, or would this have made it too formal?

Yes that would have looked a little formal, plus it had only just been used for the 3.20 summary.

Bad news to hear that George Harrison's passed away. (I ain't read the whole of this topic, so don't worry if I'm posting something a bit different to you guys. ).

BBC Radio 2 seemed quite depressed about it, especially the newsreader at 10:00am.

So there aren't really any other alternative studio .. not unless they go the whole hog and multicast on World as well from the World studio.

Well they could have used the BBC World News second studio, but again its a bit newsy.

BBC World is using the 'second studio' at the moment.

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Well he was only part of the greatest and most influential band of all time, who just about invented pop music as we know it. Most of the people on this forum, including myself, are far too young to remember the Beatles, and so perhaps don't recognise the impact they had on popular music.

The Beatles had a profound effect on the whole of British culture, and George's sad death at a ridiculously young age definitely rates as a bigger story than yet another day of this increasingly uninteresting Afghanistan business.

It's a matter of cost. The ideal studio for this would be the Liquid News Studio as it's set up for this kind of tribute. However this would involve getting a presenter and crew in to cover the programme. Puttingit on News24 means that BBC2 just opt into News24 and it costs the BBC absolutly nothing. The down side is of course the News24 team have no time to reherse anything, which is why these specials are sometimes a bit rough and ready

Thats the one - its a fabulous set that. The desk is 'tiered' i.e. it goes on a gradient from top to bottom - Mishal's on the top part of the desk there.

How many plasma displays to World News have?!

I know thet have the normal BBC News one, the World Today ones, now a news special one!!

That special with Mishal should be broadcast on BBC News 24 as well!!