The BBC World News Thread

As said in a previous post, they were in a transition phase as World had already moved to Broadcasting House the previous month and anything else left was due to leave the following month. As another poster said they could have just asked Sophie to sit in for the camera in N8 which was no longer used for anything else.

Well, that's interesting, because when it was first posted her face wasn't blurred (it is Sophie Raworth by the way)

https://www.tvforum.co.uk/forums/post894124#post-894124

You can clearly see it’s Sophie here.

[url] https://goo.gl/maps/7vHgTfFEJmf79Qeh6[/url]

And it was probably one of the few times she did an afternoon shift on the News Channel. I’m assuming she popped upstairs after doing the 1 and continued on the NC. Can hardly see her sitting around for google maps.

That link does not work.

Maybe she did the 6 that day??

Maybe if there was problems at NBH they could cut to Sophie

The NC was coming from N6, on the floor below, at that point. N8 wasn't in use, so anyone sitting in there is sitting there specifically for the photos.

No.

The news story referenced on this screen was 12th February 2013. Perhaps there's a website that's archived who presented the news on any particular day, though frankly my life's exciting enough without going looking for it.

Wasn't N8 still doing the half hour before the Ten until the end more or less?

Yep! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZqZA9f7nEo

Yes there is, and it looks like she did (my life was also exciting enough before lockdown):

http://localendar.com/elsie?JSP=PublishedCalendar&mode=PUBLISH_PUBLIC&search_type=M0&start_date=02/01/13&calendar_id=460125

It seems TVC was being really run down at this point. I assume that most of the newsroom functions had been taken over by NBH in terms of preparing bulletins - what I have explored of the newsroom is a tip and barely any desks have computers left. It may well be that there were more active areas which I haven't yet found! Does anybody know where in the newsroom the teams working on the News Channel and BBC One would have been stationed? There are very few people in that area around the old World News set.

Crikey, that's the exact day I visited TVC before it closed! I definitely remember it was Sophie on the Six from TC7 as I stood behind the cameras on the studio floor for the whole bulletin. So, I must surely have been captured somewhere by Google that day - I'm going to have to have a really good look.

If that was the day of the Google photo shoot (and like I said earlier, I clearly remember passing the cameraman in the corridors) then I can explain why N9 isn't on there - it had been mothballed and was locked up. I know that because my friend and I tried to get in there for a look but we couldn't. And N6 was definitely in use - I popped in the studio while they were on air with Sophie Long presenting.

As well as N6 and TC7, I also visited N8, the newsroom, some other main block studios that we could get into, the Blue Peter garden and my friend managed to find the elusive TC10 and TC11 that were, of course, the news studios back in the 1990s. He worked at the BBC during the 80s and 90s so knew where all the good stuff was!

Where are these, Critique? Can’t see what you’re referencing?