The new NEW Central West and BBC Midlands thread

Nope. No sarcasm at all. Clearly stating that the photo actually showed off the lovely quality of the screen that the TV broadcast does not.

To be fair I think NWT Had the most real looking window back then with the framing.

http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/images/bbc_midlands/bbcmidlands_images/news/midlands_today_2000c.jpg

That one looks the most real, like some kind of cheap UPVC window!

Acres of beige in that set design, never liked it much. Most regions used keyed overlays of story pictures plus logos to help break it up. But then so did the network programmes when they had that set.

The Pebble Mill WotW was two plasma screens vertically arranged I think...

Latest pic from @LizHannam on Twitter of Central's new set

End of another day and the boxes are unpacked for @ITVCentral new set. pic.twitter.com/fUh4chlZKa

— Liz Hannam (@lizhannam) June 8, 2015

The framework in the image above almost looks as if it is set to accommodate portrait orientation screens, with less black space along the bottom. I might be completely wrong, but if that's the case it'll be nice to have a backdrop somewhere that two presenters would be able to sit in front without expanses of black behind them.

Every large TV mount I've seen (or used) has been based on two vertical bars that screw into the mounting points on the TV. The spacing of them in that image is for horizontal alignment, the same as all the other sets.

The new ITV sets would look better with that sort of set up, particularly as TVs have thinner edges these days so the frames wouldn't need to be as thick.

That Midlands Today set looked quite ridiculous, the window looked like a toilet window or a box room.

Exactly the same situation as what is happening with ITV now. Trying to replicate a lavish national news design on the region's which a much more limited budget.

I wonder if Central will do things a little differently to the rest....they always used to!

They're not permitted their own ideas now though.

Looking at that image from mouseboy it's a shame that they didn't opt for something similar to use the screens vertically as windows and create a wall around it (similar to the GMB set & above) rather than trying poorly to make a window with black sheeting used to fill gaps.