[Kojak]

The Austrian TV broadcaster ORF is launching its new news studio tomorrow. The news programs will also have a new design and two programs will have a new name. "ZIB 2 am Sonntag" will only be called ZIB 2 and "ZIB Nacht" will be called ZIB 3 from Monday

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I am still surprised that ORF doesn't have a 24/7 news channel

They don't have the money to set one up. They do have a sports channel, but even that is being closed in the near future.

I love the new studio, but I wish they'd changed the music too. The current music sounds old and tired. When you compare it to what they had 20 years ago, it's really no contest as far as I'm concerned:

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I'm not very fond of the desk with it's floating appearance. The set itself looks nice, keeping the simple earth imagery ZIB has been using for decades now. Very glad it's not a virtual set, even though that desk almost makes it seem that way.

I do love the earth backdrop. Sky News used to have something similar:

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[Image from TV Newsroom]

Wish they'd kept it too - much nicer than anything they've had since.