BBC News Studios

They use studio E for Dateline London

That's new info for me. I did a quick Wiki search and found they have a whole building for the sports arm. Must say I like the elegant dark looking sports newsroom.
Maybe one day we might see the merge of Broadcasting House with Sports Centre, a bit like how the old Television Centre merged into Brc. House, for easier operations between news & sports?



Thanks for the clarification. I believe in that show, the panelists/guests sit opposite where a regular BBC news reader normally sits, and the backdrop is usually to the wide open area of the news floor, instead of the other side which has a glass panel separating the newsreader and the office behind it.

http://tvnewsroom.co.uk/images/news-staff/rico-hizon/rico-hizon-Image-004.jpg

Just came over this and thought in this dated pic above, did (Newsday) studio in Singapore used an animated backdrop before they switched to the window view they use now? When did that switch happen, I wonder? Or was this pic based of London, would love to see Rico in London for a change.

(p.s. Back in the days when Rico don round glasses and his hair was much darker. He has a lot of grey hair now )

If memory serves, I think that background might only have been used once in the very early days of Newsday (maybe even the launch night?). Clearly they didn't like it. I don't think it was animated - just a static background on a panel behind him.

Someone told me on here before that it's in the Singapore newsroom. I don't think it was ever used extensively, but it is occasionally used for pre recorded interviews on Newsday & Asia Business Report.

There is a video on Kasia Madera's original youtube channel showing the different backdrops somewhere, but I can't find it at the moment.
Edit: here's the first edition showing the backdrop you mention.

BBC Sport don't have a whole building, they share Quay House with other departments I believe (Breakfast, Current Affairs etc.), though they have a significant amount of space in it.

The main BBC Sport programmes broadcast on BBC One (Match of the Day, Football Focus etc.) are usually broadcast from a set and strike studio in the Dock10 (formerly MCSL/Peel) studio block, though there are also smaller, office-plus style studios, and galleries, in Quay House I believe (as well as a large editing/highlights operation)

The Sport News studio is in Quay House on the ground floor (and there is a secondary space used for weekday sports coverage where the Dock10 studio isn't used, or when there are multiple studio-based sports shows on-air at the weekend)

Do correspondents use the rehearsal hour in Studio E (5-6) to record special report summaries from the three screens?

C is available for much of the afternoon while World are in B, and there is the virtual version in A, so plenty of options for pre records, subject to being able to staff the galleries

I believe it gets used before sunrise in Singapore, as the main studio view across the city is otherwise a bit on the dark side.

Does anyone know the size of the BBC Look East studio in Norwich?

We might start to see that background a bit more unless the BBC move offices, as there are two massive residential skyscrapers being built right across the road, which will block the view entirely within the next 12 months or so.

Check out this thread at Skyscraper City.

Not sure if this is quite studio-related, but anyone can tell where are the monitor displays for the news presenters nowadays? They do obviously have keyboards and mice on the desk, but doesn't appear to us to have a monitor to see the display from their computer. But they do stare down a lot. So my guess, (a) it's somewhere under the opaque shiny table, (b) it's tucked in somewhere together with the keyboard, like a 2 in 1 thing.

I used to see them having laptops on the desks from screen caps long ago, I think it does look quite odd and out of place nowadays with the advent of miniature computer tablets. It appears quite a clunky view obstruction too. Take a look here:

The monitors are contained within the desk itself, under the glass top. I would imagine the glass is a special type of glass to reduce the flare from studio lights as well.