BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

Alain caught this, this morning.

Looking at Ben's reaction it appears he noticed that the studio was live on one of the monitors

There’s only one monitor in the desk I think and that is just relaying BBC World News unless that was also out around the world.

oops!


(phone number censored to protect the innocent)

All sorts of strange camera zoom issues over the course of the News at Five and News at Six. During the BOTH headlines on News at Five, two stings played and when the camera was switched to, it was moving very erratically into position. Then in all the headlines covered by Reeta after the Sports bulletin, the cameras were in awkward positions not normally seen, and also somewhat zoomed in during live interviews. There was, incidentally, a very long pause between Reeta throwing to weather.

Just now, in the News at Six, after the "regional headlines" at 6.15pm, the camera they switch to, to introduce the next story, was so zoomed into the studio that Fiona on the catwalk was barely visible.

Incidentally, on the 12.30pm weather bulletin during Newsroom Live, when Joanna threw to the live weather broadcast, the camera was positioned and played the BOTH headline introduction clip, then faded into Matt's weather broadcast. Given the number of technical issues as of late, I wonder if the camera robotics system is in need of an upgrade soon?

There are currently no graphics on the screen (Outside Source is on). BBC World News seems to be having no such issues.

EDIT: They have returned during the BBC World News break.

They've been having the same issues non stop ever since they moved in, 6 years ago this week. I sometimes think they'd have been better off staying in Television Centre.

What's to say they wouldn't have had the same problems if they brought in automation in TV Centre? It's not the building that's at fault (and it barely happens that much, certainly not "non-stop", they are on air for 24 hours a day).

That's aside the fact if they were still at TV Centre they'd have been in the middle of a building site for six years.

Yes, if they'd stayed at TV Centre permanately there would almost certainly have been a technical refit, if not a whole new studio. And that would have probably have involved the same technology.

And as always with automation, most of the time it's not the tech itself that makes the mistakes its the human who put the commands in. Either directly or indirectly

Who does the coding for the show the director as whole or a joint effort where say a producer/writer would enter the code for an Aston to appear for a name strap?

Most of the coding is done in the rundown template - the basic structure of most shows is the same day in day out, so the bulk of the coding is done in advance by newsroom computer system specialists (usually directors who understand that particular show). Things often go wrong when script pages are copied from one programme to another, so templates codes that might be specific to one programme end up not working as desired in another.

On the day, rundowns are created by the journalistic team, and should be done from a rundown template and script templates. The director goes through the order to check that things have been done correctly and tweaks certain things to ensure that it will work as desired on air.

But I'm glad to see it's the correct Bristol area 0117 9xxx xxx format

Is that Donna Traynor in the Newsline studio on the middle screen?