11-12-2023, 06:34 AM
(10-12-2023, 11:15 PM)Keith Wrote: Think it's reasonable to assume that the cut to Newsnight and extension of the One are most likely to come in April, with the start of the next financial year.I would hope that Newsnight would wait until after the election, which could be anything up to 13 months away, but probably sooner.
Additionally, I hope the relocation of the One comes after the NWT upgrade so they can share the same studio. It could be made slightly larger than the standard IKEA sets to also allow room for a desk at one end.
The Breakfast/Sport studio on the ground floor can't accommodate a desk, and they have no way of getting one in/out of there now. That's probably why the spinning sofa platform arrived before the LED video walls were installed and completed (as we saw from the construction pics).
'Sofa News' may be OK for Breakfast, Sport or local magazine programmes, but in my mind if you're doing one of your three daily national bulletins from a sofa on your primary channel, then you've lost gravitas and visual credibility.
You may as well do it from a plug-in point in the Piazza outside while sat on a beanbag, and just hope it doesn't rain (which is unlikely in Salford most days).