05-08-2023, 11:26 AM
(05-08-2023, 11:10 AM)Brekkie Wrote: I was thinking the atrium but they'd hung a green cloth to create the centre screen and then made a mess of it.
I thought BBC Sport still had two VR studios anyhow - the larger one used for the football and smaller one generally used for other sport. I'm sure they've been used simultaneously before, but wouldn't be surprising if one had been decommissioned considering how rarely they're both in use.
If I remember correctly, the football one isn't 'there's' per se, I think they hire it when they use it, and they're not launching their football progamming until the Premier League resumes next week so it probably isn't available just yet.
The other studio was used for the FIFA Women's World Cup this morning. That was off air at 0815, so almost two hours before the netball coverage began, so they could have potentially been done back-to-back from that studio. But with extra time potentially making that turnover even tighter, and until Thursday it was possible the BBC were showing the 09:00 kick-off it was probably right to find another location for the netball, however rubbish it is.
In early 2021, some coverage (Australian Open tennis highlights as below, and the rescheduled France v. Scotland match in the Six Nations come to mind) came from what was called the 'Question of Sport studio'. Not sure if that was available as back up. Another back up over the years was the room with a view over the Shipping Canal that hosted the 2015 World Athletics Championships and the 2018 Olympics and Commonwealth Games. I assume that is no longer a studio space as I haven't seen it since.
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