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A bureau is a BBC office. It would normally include some form of computer and network connection, and some form of basic radio equipment to allow for a live contribution or a pre-recorded feed. This could be anything from a regular phone line, to ISDN, to an IP circuit depending on the facilities available in the location.
Bigger bureaux will also include TV facilities either for live video contributions, or for editing and filing. These could be via IP or conventional fibre or satellite broadcast circuits. The live video contribution could have a dedicated camera, in some cases a dedicated single-camera studio space (and in Washington, New York, Singapore etc. a multi-camera studio), but in others they may require a field camera to be set-up for video contributions, and there may not be a studio, and instead a corner of the office is used (sometimes with a simple printed backdrop if CSO/Chromakey or a suitable window isn't feasible)
Important to remember that the BBC Is a large radio broadcaster as well as TV, so it is entirely possible for a bureau to have radio facilities but not TV.
Only multi-camera studios I can think of are Washington, Singapore and Cairo. I hear the WS Kabul office has one too, but I can't confirm that. NY is a single camera. There's about 10 times as many people in DC as in the News NY bureau (there's a Worldwide office in NY too)
Almost all BBC bureaus have TV contribution feeds, ranging from multiple channels on ATM circuits like Washington, to Vyvx connected bureaus like Rio, to NTTs or OBEs over MPLS (Gaza) or the internet (Rome), to Quicklink over a Bgan (Myanmar) or LiveU on 4G (Taipei). Some bureaus the camera is in the corner of the newsroom (Jakarta springs to mind), but the camera is usually left in situ so the journalist or guest can walk in, turn on and be on air in 2 minutes. Most bureaus have a dedicated room of some sort, often shared with the radio equipment. Some buraus have multiple TV facilities - Gaza, Ramallah, Jerusalem and Cairo can feed 2 streams at a time, as can Singapore. Washington can do 3, Brussels only streams 1 feed, but there's 2 sources. Increasingly liveU is used from outside places (Washington on the white house lawn for example).
The number of non-IP circuits from BBC bureaus, I believe, is 3. The majority of vision circuits are over the internet, and have been for the best part of 5 years.
Very few chromakeys left, Berlin, LA, maybe Moscow, and I believe Sao Paulo too, possibly Khatmandu. Bangkok doesn't have any background, just a live balcony position, and is fairly unique in that it needs to be set up for each hit. I can't think of any still backgrounds - Geneva was a still for a while, but it was a JPEG on a USB stick rather than a print. Rome moved to a TV background about a year ago.
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A bureau is a BBC office. It would normally include some form of computer and network connection, and some form of basic radio equipment to allow for a live contribution or a pre-recorded feed. This could be anything from a regular phone line, to ISDN, to an IP circuit depending on the facilities available in the location.
Bigger bureaux will also include TV facilities either for live video contributions, or for editing and filing. These could be via IP or conventional fibre or satellite broadcast circuits. The live video contribution could have a dedicated camera, in some cases a dedicated single-camera studio space (and in Washington, New York, Singapore etc. a multi-camera studio), but in others they may require a field camera to be set-up for video contributions, and there may not be a studio, and instead a corner of the office is used (sometimes with a simple printed backdrop if CSO/Chromakey or a suitable window isn't feasible)
Important to remember that the BBC Is a large radio broadcaster as well as TV, so it is entirely possible for a bureau to have radio facilities but not TV.
Only multi-camera studios I can think of are Washington, Singapore and Cairo. I hear the WS Kabul office has one too, but I can't confirm that. NY is a single camera. There's about 10 times as many people in DC as in the News NY bureau (there's a Worldwide office in NY too)
Almost all BBC bureaus have TV contribution feeds, ranging from multiple channels on ATM circuits like Washington, to Vyvx connected bureaus like Rio, to NTTs or OBEs over MPLS (Gaza) or the internet (Rome), to Quicklink over a Bgan (Myanmar) or LiveU on 4G (Taipei). Some bureaus the camera is in the corner of the newsroom (Jakarta springs to mind), but the camera is usually left in situ so the journalist or guest can walk in, turn on and be on air in 2 minutes. Most bureaus have a dedicated room of some sort, often shared with the radio equipment. Some buraus have multiple TV facilities - Gaza, Ramallah, Jerusalem and Cairo can feed 2 streams at a time, as can Singapore. Washington can do 3, Brussels only streams 1 feed, but there's 2 sources. Increasingly liveU is used from outside places (Washington on the white house lawn for example).
The number of non-IP circuits from BBC bureaus, I believe, is 3. The majority of vision circuits are over the internet, and have been for the best part of 5 years.
Very few chromakeys left, Berlin, LA, maybe Moscow, and I believe Sao Paulo too, possibly Khatmandu. Bangkok doesn't have any background, just a live balcony position, and is fairly unique in that it needs to be set up for each hit. I can't think of any still backgrounds - Geneva was a still for a while, but it was a JPEG on a USB stick rather than a print. Rome moved to a TV background about a year ago.