[harshy]

Looks good in studio D. Makes the screens in C look really washed out.

Studio C I think it’s the oldest studio it must have been around before E.

[Rolling News]

Studio C I think it’s the oldest studio it must have been around before E.

Only by a couple of months. Studio C came into use in January 2013 when BBC World News moved in. Then Studio E first came into use in March 2013 for the network bulletins and domestic News Channel.

[kookaburra]

Let’s hope they regularly update the imagery in the TWT’s open and sting. Would be nice to see the Petronas towers, marina bay sands, Sydney opera house, Shanghai financial hub, Tokyo Tower etc for a bit more diversity than just euro/cross-Atlantic landmarks.

[DTV]

Studio C I think it’s the oldest studio it must have been around before E.

That's not why the main videowall looks 'washed out', that's because the pitch of the LEDs (i.e., the size of the individual 'pixels') is far greater than on the more modern panels in Studio B, requiring them to be diffused through a piece of translucent acrylic to blur the picture together. This has the side-effect of making certain images appear a little faded, though the degree does depend a bit on the backdrop. The problem with the newsroom backdrop is that it has quite a lot of grey in it, which will struggle to show up if it is too dark.

[Keith]

This afternoon (in the UK) the News Channel has been using a pushback for the WW2 bomb in Plymouth. Probably the right call to do this than do a UK-opt out, though there is a live page with video feed. Given that it's only just being moved it they would have been simply killing time had they opted out on the News Channel, especially as the cordon means they can't get too close to the action.
It looks like Sky News are doing a similar thing, in having a live page for it whilst the TV channel covers other news.

[Frances]

This afternoon (in the UK) the News Channel has been using a pushback for the WW2 bomb in Plymouth. Probably the right call to do this than do a UK-opt out, though there is a live page with video feed. Given that it's only just being moved it they would have been simply killing time had they opted out on the News Channel, especially as the cordon means they can't get too close to the action.
It looks like Sky News are doing a similar thing, in having a live page for it whilst the TV channel covers other news.

Now the UK feed goes to the single story stream.

[Brekkie]

A local story at best. Unexploded WW2 bombs are discovered and dealt with relatively frequently.

[strollfan]

A local story at best. Unexploded WW2 bombs are discovered and dealt with relatively frequently.

This is a far more significant instance than usual, thousands have had to be evacuated and no trains are able to run through Plymouth at present.

[AaronTV]

A local story at best. Unexploded WW2 bombs are discovered and dealt with relatively frequently.

A little surprising to see the news channel now being criticised for too much UK news…!

[cityprod]

A local story at best. Unexploded WW2 bombs are discovered and dealt with relatively frequently.

One of the largest peacetime evacuations since World War 2, this is a 500lb bomb, and it's been the main story round here since Tuesday when it was discovered. The exclusion zone for the transportation of the bomb got to within a couple hundred feet of where I live, as they take it down the Torpoint Ferry ramp to begin the process of taking it out to sea to detonate it. This means the Torpoint Ferry is out of action, something very rare indeed, trains are not running between Liskeard & Plymouth, Plymouth Citybus and Stagecoach routes are severely disrupted. This is as big a deal as the Keyham shooting was a couple of years ago, and it definitely belongs on the national news.