06-05-2024, 02:15 PM
Don't forget you have D too, which was also renovated, presumably in a similar manner to E behind the scenes. Given it has little on its regular schedule that can't be moved elsewhere, would that not function as the primary back-up studio?
It might seem weird to have so many studios going free, but you have to remember that NBH was designed back in the early 2000s, when BBC News had a far heavier studio requirement. Originally, the intention was to have two newsroom studios for the two 24-hour news channels, a large basement studio for Breakfast, Working Lunch, Newsnight, etc., and three smaller basement studios for network bulletins, BBC London and presumably for some part of the rest of BBC News output (which included BBC Three News, BBC Sport news, Newsround, etc.). Most of that is either gone, moved to Salford or combined. Back then, you had numerous points in the day when four (or five, including London) studios were on air or near-about at the same time, I don't think that's ever true at NBH any more.
It might seem weird to have so many studios going free, but you have to remember that NBH was designed back in the early 2000s, when BBC News had a far heavier studio requirement. Originally, the intention was to have two newsroom studios for the two 24-hour news channels, a large basement studio for Breakfast, Working Lunch, Newsnight, etc., and three smaller basement studios for network bulletins, BBC London and presumably for some part of the rest of BBC News output (which included BBC Three News, BBC Sport news, Newsround, etc.). Most of that is either gone, moved to Salford or combined. Back then, you had numerous points in the day when four (or five, including London) studios were on air or near-about at the same time, I don't think that's ever true at NBH any more.