First look at new MSNBC/NBC News studios
Don Day October 11th, 2007
NBC News will debut its new studios on October 22nd with Morning Joe on MSNBC at 6am, following through the net’s shows that day, and NBC Nightly News at 6:30pm ET. Inside Cable News has screen shots and video of the new facility.
10 Comments Add your own
1. John Proffitt | October 12th, 2007 at 12:23 am
Visually attractive studio space. Great for HD cameras and pretty people. But what about the content? Same old crap as before? Same shrieking headlines with pillow-soft infotainment filler? Oh. Well then congratulations to all the highly-paid union carpenters and electricians on a job well done, but as a citizen I’m more depressed than impressed with this kind of investment.
Wake up TV news! This doesn’t serve the public interest. Oh, right… I keep forgetting about the shareholders — sorry!
2. Brink | October 12th, 2007 at 6:21 am
Pretty. And expensive. Too bad not one viewer has ever watched a newscast because of the set.
3. Michael Gay | October 12th, 2007 at 7:34 am
Wow, that looks impressive. It is similar to the Today Show’s set, with a homey feel. I look forward to seeing it on air.
4. thedetroitchannel | October 12th, 2007 at 8:03 am
hate to say it guys, but i haven’t had my tv on in over a month… probably 6 weeks.
i do, however, dust it religiously.
have you been following the saga of the superferry in hawaii?
5. Tom Brokaw | October 12th, 2007 at 9:38 am
So the FAKE backdrop will be replaced by the mauve color?
Posters #1 & #2 are right, the set is a small piece of the puzzle, but one of the most expensive items on the bottomline.
How about having a newscast filled with real news instead of the latest on Anna Nicole, Britney, Lohan, Angelina, Brad, and other fluff.
Anybody have the “newscast” numbers comparing Nightly News versus Weekend Update on SNL?
NBC’s assets in the anchor ranks are Matt LAuer and Keith Olbermann. In fact, Olbermann is tops. Williams is a distant third. Have never cared for him.
6. Charles | October 12th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
The video wall area looks really nice, but the mauve area? I hope they can change the colors, because is that seriously a color/set combonation that you can report on a presidential inaguration from?
7. Kid3 | October 12th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
The mauve can (and does) change to pretty much any color. Think of it like a mood ring.
8. News Consumer | October 15th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
This may be a bit off topic, but I never understood why a company like NBCU would have so many different news divisions. Why not create one group, “NBC News,” responsible for producing content for all outlets: MSNBC, the Nightly News, CNBC, Today, Dateline, etc. House it in one giant studio, lower the overhead and crank out the content.
9. User | October 18th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Well, I think this is a step towards consolidation, but Today, Dateline and CNBC, are quite different from eachother and “nbc news” itself. Today I guess is nbc news, but 3/4hours its all “lifestyle” junk, vs actual news
Just my 0.02!
10. Anonymous | November 13th, 2007 at 9:19 am
They are just individual shows/broadcast outlets. It is all under NBC news. NBC News is under NBC Universal. Universal under GE, etc.
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