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Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery are both highly sensitive things which aren't blabbed about on public forums such as this.

Don't bring them up then

Except they are. And many of those types of discussions involve consequences which are a lot more serious than a few people not being able to watch Eastenders for five minutes. However, most of them have one thing in common - light in detail (especially access & locations), but heavy on the theory and basic capabilities.

Answering the question "if MCR2 have to decamp to their backup location, they'll still be able to provide the same service?" with a "Yes, they can" reveals nothing about the BBC's DR capabilities, or anything sensitive of use to someone wanting to cause trouble. TBH, even a "No, but hopefully nobody outside should notice", while more revealing, is only revealing information of use / interests to insiders and geeks.

You could have easily answered thegeek's question and given some insight into the workings at the BBC without revealing sensitive information. You just decided to be dismissive and evasive about it.

Every comment of yours that i read leaves me feeling like i've just read: "...why should I bother to talk to the likes of you".

Indeed - we all appreciate insiders but there is no need for some attitudes.

Sorry if I was confusing - I realised it was for the tours. I was rather pointing out that any set that went in the smaller 'Breakfast' area would surely have used North West Tonight's onscreen image - namely the different background - than have been a visual extension to the Breakfast set.

What do the Salford tours consist of, out of interest? How do they compare to the old TVC tours?

Considering the nature of this conversation, I really hope Noggin, thegeek, gregmc, MediaBoy, generic, newsmonkey, BBCNicky et al realise how much we appreciate their contributions here. I'd bet we get more out of them being here than they do.

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Indeed. Some people seem to be rather ungrateful.

I went on one a year ago, and it started in Blue Peter studio in the studio block where we were told about the programme, then Dock House in a Radio 6 Music studio where Maconie and Radcliffe do their shows. Then to a radio drama studio, then the old interactive space to do a Breakfast bulletin and weather in Quay House. I was expecting more to be honest.

Looks like each presenter on BBCWN is given some flexibility on their presentation tools or arrangements. Upon finishing the introductory headlines, for two-person presentations like The World Today (Morning slots), some pairs prefer the camera to zoom in from front, some from a slightly tilted angle (Naga Munchetty always does). And also apart from these, some presenters will have lots of papers on the desk while some have very minimal papers or none on the desk. Each of them can bring some other things to the table too, some bring their own mouse, some bring an ipad or notebook. Studio C usually provides the newsreaders/guests with a transparent glass water. Occasionally we do see some bring other cups to air, like white mug, probably for some colored drinks like coffee, etc. (But I guess good old plain water is still the best for clearing one's throat when his voice is so critical on air).

Forgot another aspect, the newsreaders can always choose to use his left or right display panel for videoconferencing with remote correspondents/guests. The same newsreader would have preferred either left or right, so each time we see them videoconferencing, it will always be to that direction.

This is interesting. Once I saw a semi-transparent mug. Its transparency suggests it contained water, but maybe it contained coffee, or tea, or other coloured beverage such as absinthe or Calpol. Do we have a taxonomy of News drinking vessels?