Stanley Matravers post_id=62697 time= user_id=1435 Wrote:My understanding is that BBC Bristol will be relocating from the ageing Whiteladies Road site in Clifton to a modern glass box of a building elsewhere in the city, in the foreseeable future.
I therefore wouldn't have expected *any* upgrades - certainly not e.g. full native HD - for whatever time they now have left in Clifton.
I think that most all "network"-orientated stuff (e.g. the Natural History Unit, Countryfile, Antiques Roadshow) will move first, with local/regional stuff (e.g. Points West, Radio Bristol) remaining in Clifton "for now".
It's just BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC, that's moving. The public service sode is staying at Whiteladies Road while 'future options are explored'. So if they do move it might be somewhere else totally
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/bbcstu...a-new-home
Inspector Sands post_id=62991 time= user_id=1003 Wrote:It's just BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC, that's moving. The public service sode is staying at Whiteladies Road while 'future options are explored'. So if they do move it might be somewhere else totally
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/bbcstu...a-new-home
And, of course, if they do end up moving, it'll almost certainly be to a building without an adequate TV studio.
Stanley Matravers post_id=62905 time= user_id=1435 Wrote:The weather forecast during this morning's first Good Morning West Country ("Plymouth" edition) bulletin was read out-of-vision by a male voice-over. I didn't recognise the voice, and it certainly wasn't either of ITV West Country's usual male forecasters.
And yet, the weather during the East sub-region's bulletin had Charlie Powell stood in front of the map as usual.
How odd.
The fog warning which was forecast the day before changed. It wasn't going to affect the far south-west as much, which meant the forecast wasn't correct. The Met Office sent new graphics and script through in the early hours and this was voiced by the GMB presenter.
Ah, the perils of recording the breakfast forecast the previous evening.
Different forecasters on the two West Country sub-opts again today. Charlie Powell at the Met Office studio in Exeter, while Alex Beresford did an OB forecast for the East opt.
Noticed the newsroom camera position has changed at ITV West Country.
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See there is a rare opt out for Channel tomorrow with the Channel Islands Sports Awards at 7.30pm and again at 10.45pm.
ITV News West Country went pan-regional after the weather for a story about Bristol Airport's expansion. The East opt was pre-recorded up until then.
London Lite post_id=66688 time= user_id=953 Wrote:ITV News West Country went pan-regional after the weather for a story about Bristol Airport's expansion. The East opt was pre-recorded up until then.
After the weather forecast, we momentarily had an angled wideshot of the studio with the Clifton Suspension Bridge backdrop still in place and with Charlie Powell (down the line from The Met Office) still showing on the left-hand side monitor.
Just as Jonty was drawing his breath to thank Charlie, we mixed to a two-shot of Jonty & Eli-Louise now with the CGI gallery backdrop. Which was a bit jarring, and rather gives away (even to non-"anorak" viewers) that all/part of the programme isn't always live.
At certain times of year, differences in daylight levels also give the game away on whichever sub-region is pre-recorded - i.e. a suspiciously "broad daylight" (or twilight) OB, when dusk/nightfall has occurred by the time the programme airs at 6pm.
Goodness knows what viewers in the "Plymouth" sub-region made of the Bristol Airport story's inclusion.
More often than not, the weather is done so late in the programme that it ends at something like 18:29:30. The unusually early forecast last night allowed the pan-regional ending to include a substantial report being shown.
Made me wonder whether some minor mid-programme story was edited out of the by-then already pre-recorded East edition at late notice when the Bristol Airport news came through, to create room for the live pan-regional ending?
Either that or they were always anticipating the likelihood of the Bristol Airport announcement being made before 6:30pm, and always structured the East edition with and earlier-than-usual weather forecast and space at the end accordingly (perhaps originally with an expendable lightweight fluff story, post-weather)?
do BBC regional studios have generators?
i.h post_id=66814 time= user_id=1247 Wrote:do BBC regional studios have generators?
You'd hope that some key kit is on a UPS, to allow graceful shut down etc
Anyway, as of 18:15hrs the Western Power Outrage tracker shows no problem now at PL4 5BD, but that doesn't mean they will necessarily still make it to air