16-05-2023, 07:31 PM
(16-05-2023, 03:22 PM)Former Member 406 Wrote: If BBC London is ultimately due to be exclusively Studio B based (just like the BBC One network bulletins seemingly are), would there then be anything other than just HardTalk to justify Studio D not being mothballed?
It's the only studio-gallery combination which is in the "Peel Wing, NBH Bridge and NBH Street" fire zone, so it would be very short sighted to mothball it. It also used to be the News Channel DR studio; I'm no longer across arrangements since I left a few months ago, but I imagine it still serves a DR purpose for at least one of the outlets.
It used to be (in order of disaster priority):
- World - Studio B/C
- Arabic - Studio L
- Channel - Studio D
- Persian - Studio M
- London - Studio A
- WS Languages - Studio L/K/M/P
I'm not sure how the upgrade of studio K (from a playout/con suite for Parliament to a full MosArt gallery and studio) changed these arrangements, if at all.
Even further back before NBH was occupied, Arabic DR was TVC N9, and Persian was a chromakey studio and very basic gallery at Caversham!