BBC News studio tour

BBC News presenter and broadcaster Huw Edwards gives a tour of the new BBC News studio in London, which has considerable new space and features.

Some of the new features viewers will notice include:

Making the most out of our studio space, we have created distinct areas that will enhance our reporting:
– A new giant curved catwalk will bring our distinctive design element to life and allow us to help clearly and cleanly navigate our viewers through complex stories, and will link to the BBC’s regional programmes.
– And there are numerous options to reconfigure the set for special occasions, such as elections.
We have introduced a new central tower to present content in a way viewers recognise. This will show viewers how to get the most of BBC News on digital platforms and provide us with flexible, different and exciting ways of presenting information.
More interactive screens will allow us to tell stories in a multitude of ways and choose between different types of content, giving our presenters a number of platforms to share stories with viewers. Our weather map will be bigger and better and allow the weather presenters to be free to dynamically tell the weather story of the day.
Behind the scenes, new equipment will make the way we report news more efficient and sustainable. We have a new state of the art robotic camera system with embedded tracks in the floor to allow the presenter to safely move around the space. This makes it a very efficient area, and as well as introducing automation we have greatly reduced our power consumption (compared to the previous studio) by replacing our lights with LEDs.