Transferring BBC World Information, the BBC’s largest tv channel, from west London to New Broadcasting Home within the centre of the town is a big challenge that has taken years of planning.
Relaunching and rebranding each hour of its 24 hours of output to provide audiences all over the world a brand new thrilling polished HD product has made that massive challenge much more difficult.
Hopefully on Monday at 1200 GMT, the arduous work of our 100 devoted workers will give our audiences a bolder, brighter, extra participating search for the channel they belief to provide them impartial, goal information and evaluation from extra correspondents, in additional places, than some other worldwide broadcaster.
Meticulous planning started about three years in the past – every thing from the brand new look of our studios to bicycle parking. We examined our studio methods – actually to breaking level – then fastened them and started the dual-running piloting that has break up our newsroom groups between these preserving us on air again at Tv Centre and people coaching and growing our programmes in our new dwelling.
We’re calling our new location The World’s Newsroom as a result of it actually displays the world we report. We now work with colleagues from 27 language companies who report for us from remote bureaus and in London, permitting us to have a good time their distinctive experience – one thing no different broadcaster can provide.
We’ll be introducing you to these new colleagues and our new location in particular dwell experiences from inside New Broadcasting Home and providing enhanced social media entry so you may get pleasure from behind-the-scenes entry.
Audiences have additionally informed us they need to have interaction extra with the tales we inform – to really feel nearer to the problems we report. We’re going that will help you “dwell the story” with us. It is our new channel ethos.
Our correspondents – professional, courageous, robust, decided – dwell and work the place they report, and we wish audiences to grasp their ardour for the tales they cowl. So anticipate a brand new model of reporting from the sphere. And we’ll be in all places for our relaunch with dwell and unique experiences deliberate from Syria, China, the US and Burma to call just some.
Within the studio, trusted and acquainted presenters will probably be sharing the day’s high tales – with a sprinkling of latest faces on air. We’ll have a extra dynamic look, with robotic cameras whizzing round our studios, improved graphics and excessive definition screens to boost our means to elucidate and analyse. We even have some digital actuality surprises deliberate.
We’re additionally growing new long-form programmes, so anticipate to see new hard-hitting and well timed documentary sequence. There will be contemporary new editions of favourites comparable to HARDTalk with Stephen Sackur (our interrogator-in-chief), Click on for the most recent on tech and Well being Test for medical breakthroughs.
BBC World Information has come a great distance because it launched as a shoestring industrial operation in a backroom at Tv Centre greater than 20 years in the past. Our audiences have grown massively. We’re required viewing from the President’s White Home in Washington to the President’s Blue Home in Seoul. And in an period when unhealthy mortgages within the US can set off a world financial meltdown, we all know there’s a big urge for food for world information delivered quick, precisely and objectively.
We hope you will get pleasure from our new look. And we hope you will be part of us on the planet’s newsroom.
Andrew Roy is head of stories for BBC World Information