29-09-2022, 02:47 PM
(29-09-2022, 02:04 PM)m_in_m Wrote: An article in Broadcast Now suggests that subject to staff and union consultation the Focus on Africa TV bulletin will move to broadcast from Nairobi.
www.broadcastnow.co.uk
Not too surpising given wider plans and they have recently invested in their Nairobi facility as a new Africa hub, complete with TV studio already used by some WS language services. As plans currently stand for the merger, Focus still coming from London would require a third studio and gallery team, so this move does make a lot of sense. Though I would liked to have seen Studio E lit up in yellow and green.
I wonder if we'll see greater utilisation of the Delhi studio in the future as well. India is BBC News' biggest market (65m users per week) and a BBC World News India programme airing two 30-minute editions from Delhi at say 14:30 and 15:30 UKT (20:00 and 21:00 IST) would free up London to do UK focussed back half hours during the afternoon. (Though this would, of course, be unnecessary if they did something eminently sensible like keeping the One presenter on for afternoons, etc.).