30-04-2023, 01:52 PM
I'm intrigued that Nottingham and Birmingham were decamped for 12 and 13 weeks respectively, but Hull was only decamped for 6 weeks. And I'm sure that when Leeds first decamped, something along the lines of "a couple of months" was stated as the expected timescale - thus indicating a similar turnaround to Hull.
I wonder how much of this approximate halving of the decamping period is down to the LED set installation teams (who are presumably touring the regions) having perfected what they're doing since the first couple of regions (and therefore have sped up), and/or how much of it is down to differences in whatever else needs doing at each regional studio site.
For example... maybe various technical upgrades etc were needed at Nott'm and Brum, which may have meant things like a longer gap with the studio standing empty between striking their old sets and starting to build the new LED ones, and that there is less/none of this required at Hull & Leeds.
What I'm getting at is that I don't necessarily assume that all remaining regions will now have shorter decamp periods like Hull & Leeds, and that we may yet see some of the regions need to be decamped for longer periods like Nott'm & Brum dependant on what needs doing at each site.
This makes it impossible to guess how long it will take for the LED set roll-out to reach every region. By the end of this year? By next spring? Who knows...
I wonder how much of this approximate halving of the decamping period is down to the LED set installation teams (who are presumably touring the regions) having perfected what they're doing since the first couple of regions (and therefore have sped up), and/or how much of it is down to differences in whatever else needs doing at each regional studio site.
For example... maybe various technical upgrades etc were needed at Nott'm and Brum, which may have meant things like a longer gap with the studio standing empty between striking their old sets and starting to build the new LED ones, and that there is less/none of this required at Hull & Leeds.
What I'm getting at is that I don't necessarily assume that all remaining regions will now have shorter decamp periods like Hull & Leeds, and that we may yet see some of the regions need to be decamped for longer periods like Nott'm & Brum dependant on what needs doing at each site.
This makes it impossible to guess how long it will take for the LED set roll-out to reach every region. By the end of this year? By next spring? Who knows...