World News Now (and GMA First Look?) is moving to ABCâs new Hudson Square HQ from Monday - not without a little tribute to their longtime home by Barry Mitchell:
Broadcast version (w/ full credits and W/M) here:
Ahead of CBS Evening News relaunching, WNN and GMA First Look moved into their new (temporary) home in downtown Manhattan:
Danny Newâs tour around the new HQ:
Some grabs at night:
And day:
Is this the same building for The View?? When they moved in last year
What part of this is temporary? Isnât this the new ABC News and Walt Disney headquarters in Manhattanâs lower side?
All Disney ventures within the city are relocating to this building including news productions. GMA will soon leave Times Square for this space and local news WABC will be relocating in a few weeks time as well.
Nope the view set isnât curved at the new studio and itâs a rectangular set.
That set is awful.
Yep, looks shocking. Really messy.
Looks rather small and busy with all the elements, not really a fan.
Thatâs ABC new studios in NYC
Yep and the set looks shocking as we said haha
This is new to me, not sure how long itâs been happening. ABC uploading âfull episodesâ of GMA on YouTube.
Since last year I believe
4months it seemsâŚI donât know how its missed my feed til now!
This is all within the same building. However The View is in a different studio/part of the building.
From the set part of the tour:
This is our studio for now, itâs a little temporary before theyâre still building our main one
I thought it was a permanent one too - but that explains the cramped space between the anchors and the screens.
Thank God itâs temporary.
Itâs like Today Extra and ACA had their own studio in North Sydney. Then move into where 9News/Today Show currently have
6ABC did a behind-the-scenes feature on their new set a few days ago:
Found it a bit amusing that after all the talk about the new robotic cameras, theyâre using them around an anchor desk that rotates by hand⌠Why couldnât it be motorized (like Zagrebâs Nova TV, as for example) too?
Also surprised to know that the skyline panels at the back are all LED screens - itâs not CBS Evening News levels of absurd usage (even the floor!), but itâs still wild to see how it has advanced to the point where monolithic cardboard backdrops or real windows arenât necessary for a set to look ârealâ anymore.