[interestednovice]

I think that possibly conflates a few issues. Singapore used to use a very basic studio, and “original Newsday” with Rico Hizon/Sharanjit Leyl and Babita Sharma/Kasia Madera was all done in London with Rico/Sharanjit simply sitting in a cupboard studio, a single camera shot as a feed back to Studio C in NBH and Singapore having a remote feed of autocue and talkback on a massive delay.

Things improved when they went to their new studio, which was built to have a catwalk, real window view and flexible rotating desk. Almost a hybrid of Studio C and old Studio B in NBH. The delay issue improved and they gained a proper gallery in Singapore, but I think they were still somewhat limited.

The main reason for graphical oddities is that they now don’t have a Viz engine (hardware) in their gallery to generate the caption animations and separate lower thirds (two outputs from the same gallery) which NBH uses. They can produce the programme on their own, but to get it to air they “run through” Studio C’s gallery back at NBH. That’s what Richard Murrel’s tweet was about. Studio C’s Viz engine produces the two feeds and outputs them. I believe, since Washington has Viz, they can do this themselves - but ultimately they probably go via NBH too as NBH send the feeds to Red Bee and the separate feed for the domestic NC goes through NBH as that has no proper playout.