The downstairs production studio (not being used by any regular news programs apparently) and the main News/Today studio upstairs would have a manual control room each (studios 21 and 22 judging by the signage in the video).
My guess is that the automatic control “rooms” (probably just a desk in the main open space) are pretty flexible and can control any of the news studios as needed. Local News and ACA would be the two standouts, possibly also Today Extra, daytime bulletins and Late News when done out of Sydney.
It’ll be back to manual I understand as Today show will be using the news set permanently as their main presenting area. A new soft set for Today show is situated where the old left side video wall use to be.
Interesting move given that it was all about cost savings when they first brought automation in (certainly good to be keeping some jobs though!).
I guess this could mean they can be more creative in angles and showing off the set, unless they can go for a semi-automated system such that certain shows can use automation and some don’t?
I’m assuming the excess screens taken from that part has been moved to that gap beside the main display rather than having an image, as seen in those photos posted a while ago.
I know this won’t happen but it would be nice if the new Sydney desk and the platform could automatically rotate to face different areas of the set i.e. a window or different set angles, sort of like NBC today’s set.
However, from the pictures I’ve seen on here it probably has not been designed to accomodate a window to be shown on air.
