[Stuart]

Visually looks great, but I will be interested to see how noisy the set is - it looks like it’s not totally shut off, which is fine when the newsroom is on show, but could be odd when it’s not.

If we go back to the original News 24 studio (which became N9), they had an open space to the newsroom, with simply a gate within the barrier separating them. I don't recall any noise interference on air.

The fact that the new Breakfast/Sport studio has quite a high screen would indicate that there would be little or no noise from the area outside.
(The pricture here is from a nostalgia report)