It's enough to give any TV broadcaster in the news business serious news set envy: the brand-new studio and brand-new sets of BBC World News (DStv 400 / TopTV 400) which the BBC's 24-hour global news channel unveiled and started using today from 14:00.
It's gleaming, it's wide, it's hugely circular with multi- massive video walls. This is the set of the brand-new weekday show Global with Jon Sopel which started today at 17:00 on BBC World News.
"We'd like to thank our director, our producers and everyone involved for getting us on air for our first half an hour. Not much of an acceptance speech, was it?" remarked Jon Sopel dryly at the end of the first half hour of the hourly broadcast (which of course came the day after Hollywood's Golden Globe Awards).
Below is the set with its "normal" red and white BBC World News look; but of course in a new way.
