28-03-2023, 06:54 PM
Silly question what is Studio J and any examples of its use ?
(28-03-2023, 02:29 PM)DTV Wrote: 20 years ago, News 24 used to fit 15-18 stories in the front half-hour, even if just in brief. Sometimes today, even on fairly slow news days, you get half-hours where only three or four stories are covered at all. And when it's that sluggish, I just turn off. Ideally, you'd have the happy medium between the two extremes that you had about ten years ago - a decent number of stories, with analysis on the main ones (ideally from BBC correspondents and experts, rather than from pundits).Was the high story count not a casualty of Delivering Quality First? I seem to recall one of the tenets of that was that the news channels would cover fewer stories per hour, but in greater depth. It would seem to make sense that fewer stories covered = fewer teams/people needed.
Hopefully, the 'more updates' in yesterday's article refers to a slightly pacier format. Ideally, they'd also reformat The Context to include some actual decent explainer segments (as per Outside Source) - you know, to actually give some context.
(28-03-2023, 06:55 PM)DTV Wrote: Just to answer the two above posts, Studio J is the balcony studio.Oh, right! For some reason I thought it was the pokey little virtual studio BBC London used to use. In that case @Newsroom is right - can’t complain at all if the UK breakouts are to be done from the balcony.
(28-03-2023, 06:55 PM)Kojak Wrote: Was the high story count not a casualty of Delivering Quality First? I seem to recall one of the tenets of that was that the news channels would cover fewer stories per hour, but in greater depth. It would seem to make sense that fewer stories covered = fewer teams/people needed.I think it was more Lambert than DQF - i.e., when the channel moved to being more focussed on breaking and developing news than just what the news was - but the 'slow down' in pace is something that has been fairly gradual over time and I expect part of it is, as you say, cost-related. Even then, though, there's no need for it to be as slow as it is - things like News in Brief segments don't cost and there must be more than a handful of VT reports going around.
(28-03-2023, 07:38 PM)ALV Wrote: With Studio C having tons of problems recently... from missing graphics to tickers getting stuck to technical breakdowns that took the entire studio down...Is there a chance with all these recent breakdowns they will abandon their plans to use C and use A for the main channel and D for UK opts?
I feel like the relaunch is just one technical breakdown away from turning into a disaster, since Studio C is going to be fully utilized 24/7 starting Monday while E gets renovated.