[bbctvtechop]

L, 34D and 54D have dedicated galleries, as do K, M and P. These are all (in the main) used for World Service tv programmes, though 54D is also used by Newsnight, K does Focus on Africa (with the studio actually being in Nairobi) and M is also used for The Catch Up on BBC Three.

44D has been reimagined as a flexible production space but I don’t know what gallery kit it uses. F is now being used by the streaming team and is switched to line on whichever stream needs gallery playout facilities at the time.

44D was the second version of an experimental vMix setup (first was a clunky cloud-based vMix setup in a visualised radio studio) specified for World Service digital products, eg social media live streams. Over time it has been used by the wider BBC, and even for internal broadcasts. Not sure it's ever put out a full live programme transmitted in the traditional way, but it has been used as an insert/contribution studio to the (domestic) News Channel, and some pre-recs which have gone out on WS Languages TV and World News.

It has six BirdDog cameras delivered to vMix over NDI, a full Dante network for sound, and a dedicated control room (strictly NOT a gallery!) which can be self-opped with one person on vMix doing everything, or with a full gallery crew of director, vMix op, sound op, and TC (robotic cams, lighting, comms) depending on the scale of the production.

The balcony studio is now also a vMix setup, always one operator, but with hard-cabled Sony PTZ cameras and hard-cabled audio.

There is a pool of approximately 10 tech ops who are trained on the vMix studios which spend between 3 and 12 months on attachment away from their usual Tech Op (eg Mosart galleries) position.