You mean people actually watch BBC Breakfast News???

The Leeds small bulletin set is chromakey - Look North side panel and mustard backdrop (looks nice and bright at breakfast time). We see a lot of this set, as BBC North uses it for 9.28 and weekend bulletins rather than the main set.

BBC NI have a chromakey picture of the newsroom (usually empty at that time of the morning).

>You mean people actually watch BBC Breakfast News???

Certainly - you have seen Sophie Raworth, I take it?

BBC Breakfast News itself is looking particularly shoddy - their new "washed out" look gives it a peculiarly 70's feel. I switched on to find a badly-lit man being interviewed in front of a beige, almost hessian-looking background. It looked like an old Python sketch (one of the ones where they just quickly mocked up a studio for a quick interview gag)...

>BBC NI have a chromakey picture of the newsroom (usually empty at that time of the morning).

Are you sure? - I am almost certain it is real - in the newsroom itself. The studio they used to use for the short news progs (with the chroma-key background) is only used for Breakfast with Frost interviews and the like now. I know the second part for a fact.

Last time I went home (about three weeks ago) there was a tell-tale CSO fuzz surrounding Sarah Travers during the news. I presumed this meant they were using the presentation studio rather than actually sitting in the newsroom.

Certainly last year they were using the newsroom backdrop for a while, and then a blue/gold image before going back to the newsroom. This would be easy to do if it's just chromakey.

On the other hand, the Radio Ulster news studio is in the newsroom (or was last time I was there) so maybe the TV studio has been moved.

Where does Northern Ireland Grandstand come from?

>Where does Northern Ireland Grandstand come from?

When I was in Broadcasting House in January, there was a set in the corner Newsline Studio, to the right of the Newsnight set. I may be wrong, but I think they move the newsnight set out of the way pthe Grandstand set there, at least when they are doing 'Grandstand from Northern Ireland' and not just 'Northen Ireland Results'. I haven't sen either in a long time so I'm not totally sure.

NW TODAY AND Wales Today have to be the worst, they are just plain background, and folks, the new BBC BREAKFAST is just around the corner, coming to a city near you this autumn.

anyone got any info on the new breakfast news?

>anyone got any info on the new breakfast news?

I suspect it'll happen on 2nd October when apparently all national and some regional news in going widescreen. So about 9 weeks to go.

Breakfast news material (discovered by my good self many months ago) at svc.co.uk

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