BBC News Studios

Yep - believe MPA stands for that. They're smaller studios and galleries within the newsroom with fewer facilities and designed for simpler, often pre-recorded (though not always) output, and not designed to be run continuously AIUI.

I think some of the World Service language TV services (Russian? Turkish? Swahili? Urdu?) may come from MPAs?

Wikipedia has a fairly good list of the current studios at Broadcasting House.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcasting_House#Current

Only thing missing is the 8 o'clock BBC One bulletin. Does that come from B seeing as it used to come from TC7?

I thought it was going to come from A. I'm not sure there is a green screen in B.

It would make sense to use A as it's used an hour later for the NC

And it's also used for the 9pm preview of the Ten.

There must be some missing, according to that Radio 1/1Xtra has more studios than the entire World Service. Of course it also misses the Radio Theatre

Also what about the handful of 5 live programmes that come from BH, presumably they share a Radio 4 studio?

Has anybody done the new tour of BH yet? I did it today and it really is well worth it!

Just off the main entrance the tour begins in the media café - essentially a glorified costa, the glass wall of which looks directly down onto the newsroom with the panning railcam flying past only centimetres away on the other side of the glass. You can see the whole newsroom in front of you and into Studio E and the galleries. I stood watching for ages and saw several well known presenters working away on their computers.

They brought us into the then empty BBC London studio which was facinating - really quite small, and the desk is about knee high. They then brought us around the older part of BH including the radio theatre and back to finish on the balcony above Studio E. This mid-hour so I don't think I was seen at the TOTH . Its amazing how open and accessible it all is, and the poor weather presenters have to perform with an audience of onlookers on the other side of the glass watching them, but I'm sure it doesn't put them off. Must be strange for all the staff to be so open to the public now.

I guess its not possible to see the other bbc news studios, b and c due to its closed off nature.

I assume that the set in TC7 has now been dismantled - Are there any photos of the set being taken apart?

I thought it was going to come from A. I'm not sure there is a green screen in B.[/quote]

The summary does come from A. although F was considered for a while........The interesting bit will be when London are in A whilst their new studio and gallery are being built/upgraded.....and how the "opt" works then as both pres will be in the same studio.

C

Shades of the old UK Today hand back to the 90 second national headlines when both Gwenan (UK Today) and Huw (Nationals) were in the same studio - albeit in reverse?