[LDN]

'BBC HAPPY NEW YEAR NEWS'
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...and a very happy new year news to you all.

[bbctvtechop]

L, 34D and 54D have dedicated galleries, as do K, M and P. These are all (in the main) used for World Service tv programmes, though 54D is also used by Newsnight, K does Focus on Africa (with the studio actually being in Nairobi) and M is also used for The Catch Up on BBC Three.

44D has been reimagined as a flexible production space but I don’t know what gallery kit it uses. F is now being used by the streaming team and is switched to line on whichever stream needs gallery playout facilities at the time.

44D was the second version of an experimental vMix setup (first was a clunky cloud-based vMix setup in a visualised radio studio) specified for World Service digital products, eg social media live streams. Over time it has been used by the wider BBC, and even for internal broadcasts. Not sure it's ever put out a full live programme transmitted in the traditional way, but it has been used as an insert/contribution studio to the (domestic) News Channel, and some pre-recs which have gone out on WS Languages TV and World News.

It has six BirdDog cameras delivered to vMix over NDI, a full Dante network for sound, and a dedicated control room (strictly NOT a gallery!) which can be self-opped with one person on vMix doing everything, or with a full gallery crew of director, vMix op, sound op, and TC (robotic cams, lighting, comms) depending on the scale of the production.

The balcony studio is now also a vMix setup, always one operator, but with hard-cabled Sony PTZ cameras and hard-cabled audio.

There is a pool of approximately 10 tech ops who are trained on the vMix studios which spend between 3 and 12 months on attachment away from their usual Tech Op (eg Mosart galleries) position.

[Reith85]

Sorry for another negative post but again you see how inferior the BBC News channel is now based on this morning's news from Japan: in the 10am and 11am hours, just 7 minutes or so is given over to the earthquake / threat of a tsunami story before the usual pre-recorded stories and reports, as well as the bottom-of-the-hour filler "review of 2023" repeat programmes.

On Sky News? Continuous live coverage of events in Japan all morning.

And BBC News is meant to be a global player in News? It doesn't feel like it at all.

[FactorFiles]

Just had an odd second weather report follow the first on the BOTH, with the opening graphic having the template text "Presenter Name"
Apologies for the colours of the screen capture:

   

[DTV]

Sorry for another negative post but again you see how inferior the BBC News channel is now based on this morning's news from Japan: in the 10am and 11am hours, just 7 minutes or so is given over to the earthquake / threat of a tsunami story before the usual pre-recorded stories and reports, as well as the bottom-of-the-hour filler "review of 2023" repeat programmes.

To be fair, this isn't a 'how the BBC News channel is now' thing, BBC News has always been very inflexible with this kind of thing, rarely ditching a pre-record unless they absolutely have to - BBC World used to be particularly rigid. Obviously, this is much to its detriment - you can establish yourself as somebody's default news channel all you want, but people will still switch over if you aren't showing what they want.

[Brekkie]

And to be honest we often moan about channels running endless non-stop rolling coverage with little to add at the expense of all other stories when really covering they key information at the tip of the hour then moving on to cover other news is probably a better service for most viewers.

[rkolsen]

To be fair, this isn't a 'how the BBC News channel is now' thing, BBC News has always been very inflexible with this kind of thing, rarely ditching a pre-record unless they absolutely have to - BBC World used to be particularly rigid. Obviously, this is much to its detriment - you can establish yourself as somebody's default news channel all you want, but people will still switch over if you aren't showing what they want.

I’d have to assume that BBC World was rigid because it had to often play out programs for third party providers to record shows live. WETA offers like 5 half hours (some are delayed by 3 hours) of news so proper start times and endings are needed for those. Same with Focus on Africa - they need to go out to providers (The Africa Channel in the US and I assume somewhere in Africa). Now I’m not saying the latter show couldn’t be deadrolled and transmitted differently as I’ve never seen the typical branding on it (lower thirds etc).

[interestednovice]

Yes, you are right that PBS in America, especially, and other channels around the world do “buy” access to various BBC News (formerly WN) programming blocks, some of which they transmit live as a simulcast with the BBC’s own output. So the BBC does have to cater to them to uphold it’s contractual commitments.

In the case of Focus on Africa, specifically, though this is no longer quite the case. Previously, Focus on Africa was “slotted in” to the BBC World News schedule and produced and transmitted on BBC WN at the appointed time no matter what. Now, since the merger, it is produced in a different studio to other BBC News programmes, and can theoretically be delivered directly to partners via other ways (a separate feed, etc) so I don’t think it strictly has to go out in the way it used to. Certainly, the UK feed shows something else which other regional feeds could also show too.

It does normally go out on the Africa regional feed, of course.

[DTV]

I’d have to assume that BBC World was rigid because it had to often play out programs for third party providers to record shows live. WETA offers like 5 half hours (some are delayed by 3 hours) of news so proper start times and endings are needed for those. Same with Focus on Africa - they need to go out to providers (The Africa Channel in the US and I assume somewhere in Africa). Now I’m not saying the latter show couldn’t be deadrolled and transmitted differently as I’ve never seen the typical branding on it (lower thirds etc).

Absolutely, there were definitely reasons like that why BBC World was so rare in switching to rolling news mode, but it also extended to rarely dropping things like WBR, Sport Today and back-half pre-records for news coverage, which third-parties wouldn't be particularly dependent on.

[interestednovice]

Absolutely, there were definitely reasons like that why BBC World was so rare in switching to rolling news mode, but it also extended to rarely dropping things like WBR, Sport Today and back-half pre-records for news coverage, which third-parties wouldn't be particularly dependent on.

Sometimes that was because such “disposable” programmes were scheduled to “cover up” something going out to a different region - so Sport Today covering something like Focus on Africa. Matching this type of programming up then gives the main newsreader a break so they can leave the studio and have something to eat, etc. during a long shift.