16-06-2023, 01:37 PM
(16-06-2023, 02:41 AM)interestednovice Wrote: I remember it first being noticed that the move was imminent when they started to dismantle the newsroom behind the set of Early Start!
A sort of “desk watch” then started back over on the blue place as less and less office furniture was left behind the set.
Eventually, the former newsroom was empty for about a week’s worth of Early Start editions before, finally, the anchors themselves moved to the new Hudson Yards set.
That HK Newsroom with Anna Coren is a regular/semi-regular thing still, I think. Mind you, it’s not really highlighted as a HK broadcast in the same way London, for example, is. The proper studio in HK is also not used for it, even though it’s still there and used sometimes for prerecords. CNN Newsroom always comes from a flash set.
Kristie Lu Stout (the former NewsStream presenter) has even done the HK edition of Newsroom on occasion.
It’s nice to see that CNN haven’t given up on HK as a bureau completely, and I’d say it still exists as a broadcast site (technically) but is just not as prominently featured in the schedules as it once was. That could easily change, though.
It's regular in the sense that if there are no other anchors in Atlanta for the overnight, Anna Coren (most frequently) and sometimes KLS will pop up from HK.
The studio in HK isn't very practical for anything but stand-up anchoring (there's also no desk) which is likely why it always comes from a flash set.