Here is the better view of the set up in the newsroom for CBSN. I love the screen on the camera right to cover that workspace just next to set. They really scrimped on this venture.
Here is the better view of the set up in the newsroom for CBSN. I love the screen on the camera right to cover that workspace just next to set. They really scrimped on this venture.
Scrimped isn't really the right word. That implies that they cut costs that they shouldn't have. I don't believe that.
To me, it looks like they spent the minimum that they reasonably could on this set. Nothing extravagent here, looks like they have justified every dollar that they have spent, and not spent a dollar more than they've had to. I only wish other studios were constructed simiarly.
That blue screen is definitely the weakest link in an otherwise very nice set. I'm sure they could come up with a more elegant solution - especially as the whole thing (including the white bit at the bottom) is visible on-screen sometimes.
I agree that there's no need to spend any more on the set, though. The main thing is that they've got a decent newsroom background - so no need for anything more than a desk, monitor, and - if they can't open up that area on the right - something to keep it discreetly hidden.
The only thing I wonder is whether it would look better if the presenters always sat down like Jeff Glor does.
I'm 90% sure that the brick wall to the right is the same wall that they wanted to tear down so that the CBS This Morning set behind would have an open newsroom backdrop.
They did a tour of the CTM studios and set. The anchors/exec producers offices are in the mezzanine above the newsroom. Behind the camera are windows right out on the street. Somehow I think those are now covered. In the video you see the full scope of this part of the CBS NewsRoom. Its sorta confusing because CBS News is spread over several buildings in Manhattan. So who knows whats the main news room.
I remember seeing a TOTH wide shot from CBSN from a camera outside on street level, peering into the CBSN newsroom. The desk is right in front of a window, which is adorned with an LED display. I wish I had caps, I'll try to keep an eye out for it in the future.
Minor hiccup just now. Nothing kicked in after the radio headlines at the top of the hour, so we saw the newsreader get up and walk out, followed by a couple of minutes of an empty radio studio before Sunday Morning started playing.
They seem to have dropped the camera in the radio studio - now it's just audio over a 'Headlines' slide.
Perhaps they thought that scruffily-dressed radio newsreaders didn't look very professional. Personally, I thought it was great, though.
Jeff Glor's evening shift came from Washington last night, to cover the President's address on immigration. There was a special TOTH opener with a picture of the Capitol and 'from Washington DC' under the logo.
