Early-morning television

A newsroom is a large and open-plan area where journalists work in print and/or broadcast media.

For newsrooms, whether in print and/or broadcast media, they convey a raw, gritty, industrial, realistic, utilitarian and unpolished aesthetic; they feature desks and/or modular workstations.

Likewise, newsroom areas use realistic, authentic and transparent information.

The bullpen is an informal term being used to describe a large, open-plan and workstation/desk-heavy newsroom area.

Whether on a regular or a sporadic basis, newsrooms are trends in journalism, including television.

Control rooms are spaces where a large physical facility can be monitored or controlled.

In the television section, control rooms convey a sleek, modern, metallic and high-tech aesthetic; they feature stacked video walls/monitor banks.

Multi-monitor TV control rooms also use technical sophistication, precision and information control.

Places providing a centralized command are command centres or nerve centres, also used in television news studio set designs.

Distinct command/nerve centre camps in television news studios include bullpens and control rooms.

By fusing the usual command centre camps in television news studios (bullpen and control room), the authentic, transparent, sophisticated and precise trends become one command/nerve centre.

Hybrid newsroom-control room studios are key components of the 24-hour television news cycle.

For hybrid newsroom-control room studios, they have an equally-hybrid industrial-chic feel.

Street-level studios are broadcast facilities being based in the downtown core of each city in the world where pedestrians can look through glass windows to experience broadcasts in action.

A glass fishbowl is an informal term for street-level studios.

Traditional newscasts across the globe, lasting a quarter-hour, utilize one anchor in one desk and three separate segments (news-sports-weather) from isolated box-like studios.

Expanded and modern newscasts around the world, lasting over a quarter-hour, feature anchors in one single desk from dynamic studios (newsrooms, control rooms, hybrid or street-level).

Large open-plan newsroom-as-set trends have key advantages:

• Enhanced authenticity: Seeing journalists, ringing telephones and breaking news portions in the background signals transparency and credibility to the viewing audience

• Visual energy: The hustle and flow of an active newsroom creates a high-energy and fast-paced atmosphere matching urgent breaking news live

• Cost and space efficiency: Juxtaposing the television broadcast studio with the newsroom place helps build, heat, cool and maintain 2 facilities

• Rapid breaking news response: News anchors sit behind news gatherers in the newsroom based around the border, offering immediate live updates without moving sets

• Production agility: The large open-plan newsroom studio layout allows camera operators to use 360-degree shooting angles, jib arms and roaming steadicams for highly-dynamic visuals

Physical news studio sets with a control room backdrop have key advantages:

Visual Dynamics

• Depth: The layered glass creates a third-dimensional frame

• Movement: Moving monitors and active producers add natural background energy

• Texture: Mixing glass, steel and electronic glow enriches the image

Editorial Authority

• Transparency: Seeing the production team builds audience trust and authenticity

• Urgency: The "breaking news" environment makes coverage feel immediate

• Scale: A visible control room makes the newscast look vast

Functional Efficiency

• Space: Monitors display live grpahics without extra equipment

• Lightning: Screen glow provides built-in, moody ambient backdrop light

• Cost: Multiple layouts change on the control monitors

Street-level and windowed television studios have advantages:

• Audience engagement: Pedestrians are part of the live energy of a television program

• Brand visibility: Thre studio is a massive physical billboard

• Community connection: Broadcasters have access to the local public

When regular commercial television operations began in New York, many programs have incorporated theatrical proscenium or radio layouts, separating the stage from the audience area.

In other words, the early studio set designs used by many programs coming from the New York-centric television scene were described as being austere, flat and claustrophobic like a cardboard box.

Plus, in the New York-centric television scene, individuals in radio/television spoke in a loud tone.

During the early years of the era after the Second World War, some television programs emanated from Chicago, where Dave Garroway was a radio disc jockey on WMAQ-AM.

Radio belonged to Dave Garroway since World War II, and his laid-back delivery defined his career.

Television came calling for the radio-friendly Dave Garroway in 1949; his eponymous program called Garroway at Large was a key component of the Chicago School of Television.

For his own Garroway at Large television program, Dave Garroway defied television's early theatrical conventions for a more casual approach, in which the reality of the studio was acknowledged.

Using one camera, Dave Garroway walked around large studios and simple abstract sets as he directly talked to guests and television viewers for his eponymous Garroway at Large program.

Some noted individuals of the production staff behind Dave Garroway's innovative Garroway at Large program include Bob Banner, Bill Hobin, Ted Mills, Jan Scott and Charlie Andrews.

As its co-directors, both Bob Banner and Bill Hobin pioneered a television style, comprising fluid and moving camerawork for Dave Garroway's Garroway at Large program.

The floor in the studio for Dave Garroway's Garroway at Large had no bounds, as treated by both Bob Banner and Bill Hobin.

Having arrived in Chicago from New York, Ted Mills presented Dave Garroway's Garroway at Large program with its unique approach.

Classic Chinese theatre (or Xiqu) is a theatrical art form, which means music, dance, martial arts and acrobats rolled inro one.

Plus, xiqu is where props, stagehands and fluid movements maintain the scenic reality.

Utilizing classic Chinese theatre as its inspiration, Ted Mills structured Dave Garroway's eponymous Garroway at Large program around the pure television idea.

Due to Dave Garroway being dis with a standard performance form being done before a live theatre audience), Ted Mills courageously decided to ditch this form for Garroway at Large.

Jan Scott, who was the woman with the most Emmy Awards, designed the abstract studio sets for Dave Garroway's eponymous and innovative Garroway at Large program.

For Charlie Andrews, he was Dave Garroway's best friend (and favourite writer) on the eponymous and innovative Garroway at Large program, doing material that was unscripted and ad-libbed.

Some noted television trends pioneered by Dave Garroway's Garroway at Large program included fluid one-camera aesthetics, abstract designs, relaxed tones, studio mechanics, etc.

In essence, the name forging Dave Garroway's innovative television elements is the Chicago Style.

NBC, which ran the WMAQ media assets, frequently aired Dave Garroway's eponymous Garroway at Large program at 10 p.m. on Saturday nights (later Friday nights and Sunday nights).

The Merchandise Mart, which was NBC's former Chicago headquarters, was the main venue for Dave Garroway's radio and television projects as well, notably Garroway at Large.

However, Dave Garroway's Garroway at Large was cancelled in the early-1950's.

With the news that his Garroway at Large program was cancelled after a short run lasting 2 years, Dave Garroway decided to do something else.

Leaving Chicago in the aftermath of the news that his Garroway at Large program was cancelled, Dave Garroway took his Chicago Style with him and Charlie Andrews to New York.

Sylvester "Pat" Weaver, who, during radio's golden age, worked for the Young & Rubicam agency, was also involved with NBC since 1949, and was creating something of a controversial innovation.

Early-morning television was Pat Weaver's innovative, but controversial dream for a few years, and he tapped Dave Garroway and Charlie Andrews, both from Chicago, to make this dream real.

Pat Weaver's successful dream of an early-morning television program was called Today (NBC).

When Today (NBC) began, television was completely absent from the early-morning hours, and critics believed that no one watched TV while getting ready for work.

Just before Today (NBC), Pat Weaver was also trying to find a location for its studio.

Situated in the Rockefeller Centre complex, the RCA Exhibition Hall is based directly across from the iconic and famous headquarters of the Associated Press at 50 Rockefeller Plaza.

Contrasting to the iconic headquarters of the Associated Press, which represented print journalism, the RCA Exhibition Hall represented electronic media's fluid and transparent future.

Likewise, Rockefeller Centre also housed 1 Rockefeller Plaza, which, from 1938 to 1960, served as the former base for Time Inc.

The presence of both the Associated Press and Time Inc. transformed Rockefeller Centre's scope from a strictly radio-communications complex into a centre of the radio and print media sectors.

Using the RCA Exhibition Hall as Pat Weaver's choice, Today (NBC) was unconventional.

During the early-1950's era, parts of the floor of the RCA Exhibition Hall were being converted into an early studio space for Today (NBC).

Inside the RCA Exhibition Hall floor, portions of which were converted into the first studio location for Today (NBC), was a room evoking the Associated Press bullpen at 50 Rock.

Blending print journalism's industrial past (via the 50 Rock hub of the Associated Press) with electronic media's transparent future (via the RCA Exhibition Hall), Today (NBC) is innovative.

The Today (NBC) bullpen, based in the RCA Exhibition Hall, was used during its first 3 years.

Some of the noted elements of the innovative Today (NBC) bullpen, located inside the RCA Exhibition Hall, include teletypes, clocks, rowed desks, shortwave radios and television monitors.

Pedestrians on the sidewalk looked through the windows of the RCA Exhibition Hall to experience the Today (NBC) broadcasts in action.

For this non-boundary room inside the RCA Exhibition Hall floor for Today (NBC), it was known as a Window on the World or a glass fishbowl.

Noted teletypes used in the bullpen being based inside the RCA Exhibition Hall for Today (NBC) came from the Associated Press, United Press and the International News Service.

Generally, teletype machines used in the RCA Exhibition Hall for Today (NBC) provided constant (and live) text updates from the Associated Press.

Wall clocks in the bullpen inside the RCA Exhibition Hall tracked time zones to emphasize the national reach of Today (NBC).

Shortwave radios in this bullpen inside the RCA Exhibition Hall for Today (NBC) allowed producers to monitor foreign broadcasts and breaking global news.

Plus, television monitors displayed live feeds, network graphics and outgoing broadcasts.

In addition, the first Today (NBC) graphic, which was based at the bottom of the TV screen, comprised scrolling text (depicting the news headlines typewritten on paper) and the clock display.

The first Today (NBC) graphic was directly translated from the physical clocks/teletypes in the bullpen coming from the floor of the RCA Exhibition Hall.

Besides, the writing material by Charlie Andrews, rooted in Dave Garroway's eponymous Garroway at Large program, shaped the informal style of Today (NBC).

Dave Garroway's laid-back approach, which had its roots in radio, was adapted for television.

Specifically, the blueprint being created by the borderless room being based inside the RCA Exhibition Hall for Today (NBC) under Dave Garroway birthed modern broadcast design elements.

Noted elements of the boundless room being based in the RCA Exhibition Hall for Today (NBC) under Dave Garroway include newsroom sets, street-side studios, news tickers and clock displays.

Just before Dave Garroway, television news featured anchors who delivered the day's stories in a studio resembling a claustrophobic box/theatrical and radio stage with journalists backstage in a bullpen.

However, Dave Garroway's innovations, including Garroway at Large and Today (NBC), tore down the walls, juxtaposing the main stage in the news studio with the backstage workspace bullpen.

Returning to the Midwestern United States, innovative concepts (which were built on Dave Garroway's television aspects) also metamorphosed the way television news was presented.

WBBM-TV, WJW-TV and WCCO-TV are some local television stations in this Midwestern region that changed television news studio set designs, all connected to NBC's rival CBS.

In television's early years, the studio and the newsroom were separate.

News anchors delivered the day's stories from an isolated and enclosed studio, while journalists in the bullpen physically sprinted across a high catwalk to deliver scripts to them.

This frantic setup was impossible to maintain for a longer, fast-paced newscast.

For television newscasts extending beyond the quarter-hour time limit, however, news anchors sat in a bullpen, surrounded by busy journalists, plus the teletype and its clattering sound.

Silent computers replaced the teletype and its clattering sound in the newsroom.

Hugh Raisky, who was involved with CBS, designed the WBBM-TV news studio, featuring a regular backdrop evoking the gritty bullpen of the East Coast, introduced in March 1973.

During the first of the 1960 presidential debates, a total of 380 reporters were inside Studios 3 and 4 at WBBM-TV's headquarters in the former Chicago Arena.

The pre-1973 era for the WBBM-TV news operation was a gap between the anchors in an isolated and enclosed news studio and the journalists in the bullpen hand-delivering stories.

Robert Wussler and Van Gordon Sauter, both involved with WBBM-TV, were the geniuses behind the creation of its regular newsroom-as-set trend in 1973.

For the regular newsroom-as-set trend that WBBM-TV had made, under both Robert Wussler and Van Gordon Sauter, it shattered the rigid and isolated television news studio set trends.

Evoking a raw, gritty and unpolished newspaper feel, the WBBM-TV news studio, featuring a regular bullpen backdrop, has a mantra: It's not pretty, but it's real news.

Just before the innovative news desks, made in the 1960's by both WJW-TV and WCCO-TV, television newscasts featured one anchor in one desk and three separate segments (news-sports-weather).

However, in this 1960's era, both WJW-TV and WCCO-TV built wider and unified news desks to bring anchors/segments (news-sports-weather) together in one desk and one program.

Fred Harpman, a science fiction designer in Hollywood, is involved with his work on NBC's sci-fi spy television series Search and its 1972 pilot television film Probe.

Hugh O'Brian, who is in Marilyn Monroe's 1954 film, plays Hugh Lockwood in Search/Probe.

Search/Probe use the Probe Control Centre, a high-tech, NASA-like nerve centre.

The Probe Control Centre, which Fred Harpman had designed for Search/Probe on NBC, serves as the direct inspiration for his studio set design for this network called the NewsCentre.

Plus, Fred Harpman's NewsCentre design is based upon his nerve centre design being used in the 1966 science fiction adventure film Fantastic Voyage, for which he is assistant art director.

CMDF's nerve centre uses its high-tech and futuristic feel for Fantastic Voyage (1966).

Fantastic Voyage stars Marilyn Monroe's Fox successor Raquel Welch.

With its roots in the cinematic Hollywood sci-fi scene, Fred Harpman's NewsCentre design serves as a radical departure from the austere news set designs, like WBBM-TV's bullpen studio.

Fred Harpman's NewsCentre design is being created to have a working newsroom feel (doubling as an industrial factory for television news and information).

Plus, Fred Harpman's NewsCentre design paralleled the borderless room being located inside the RCA Exhibition Hall for Today (NBC) under Dave Garroway.

Using architectural geometry, angled desks and glass partitions, Fred Harpman's NewsCentre set design contrasts with traditional ones whose framing was flat, shallow and two-dimensional.

Besides, the NewsCentre design by Fred Harpman features NASA-like banks of active video feeds/data monitors.

In addition, mezzanine/stairs also add to Fred Harpman's NewsCentre design.

Lee Hanna and Earl Ubell, both news executives involved with WNBC-TV, are the geniuses behind the creation of its NewsCentre, featuring Fred Harpman's futurist, high-tech and cinematic design.

What inspired Lee Hanna to envision the NewsCentre (NBC) is an episode of Search that he saw on his home television, featuring Fred Harpman's high-tech Probe Control design.

Jim Kitchell is the mastermind behind NBC's space broadcast unit to cover NASA events.

Due to his interest in NASA's nerve centres, Jim Kitchell managed the futurist, space-age and high-tech NASA-like aesthetics at NBC News, specifically Fred Harpman's NewsCentre design.

So successful was the NewsCentre philosophy (in branding, visuals and design), which WNBC-TV had originated, that NBC's other owned-and-operated television stations began using this one.

NBC commissioned modular and scaled-down structural clones of this original NewsCentre incarnation that WNBC-TV originated in New York.

KNBC adopted the NewsCentre to capture the same cinematic energy as WNBC.

Given its proximity to Hollywood, KNBC utilized the multi-angle geometry and workstations banks for bringing the NewsCentre to this place, which is Fred Harpman's primary base.

In Chicago, in a poetic twist of television history, this NewsCentre traces back to Dave Garroway's old stomping grounds: the Merchandise Mart, from which Garroway at Large was presented.

WMAQ-TV used the NewsCentre as a multi-tiered and active newsroom atmosphere that proved news reporting in the Midwest in an industrial and fast-paced nature.

This NewsCentre design by Fred Harpman served as a futurist, high-tech and cinematic upgrade to the gritty and unpolished newsroom set that WMAQ-TV's rival WBBM-TV used.

Having been introduced in 1975, WMAQ-TV's NewsCentre used Floyd Kalber and Jane Pauley.

Still in the Midwest, non-NBC stations used undertones of the NewsCentre design that Fred Harpman created, notably WJKW-TV and WTHR.

WJKW-TV's NewsCentre design, which its art director Hilton Murray created, used undertones of the NewsCentre design that NBC commissioned.

Meanwhile, during its initial years under the ownership of the Columbus Dispatch newspaper, WTHR utilized Fred Harpman's NewsCentre design, mixed with Al Primo's Eyewitness News format.

Besides WTHR, WLW used a street-side place called the Communications Exchange (COMEX).

For COMEX, it housed WLW's radio operations (and television news facility) for about 20 years from 1957 to America's bicentennial year.

Paralleling the RCA Exhibition Hall in New York's Rockefeller Plaza, COMEX comprised pedestrians looking through windows to see WLWT's newscasts or radio programs on WLW radio.

Crossing north of the border, BCTV used the iconic newsroom-as-set trend until October 4, 2010.

Until December 2009, Tony Parsons had served as the primary news anchor for BCTV, delivering its flagship 6 p.m. newscast called the News Hour.

For its unique news studio layout, BCTV blended the raw and gritty bullpen backdrop (CBS) with Fred Harpman's NASA-like NewsCentre (NBC) and its locally-owned indie station status.

Echoing the title of a monster film, for the hybrid newsroom-control room set approach that BCTV had created, the bullpen of the East Coast meets the NASA-like nerve centres of Hollywood.

Departing from the oft-used, yet derided philosophy that the studio is the newsroom, as emphasized by CBS/WBBM-TV, the mantra, as emphasized by BCTV, was that the newsroom is the studio.

BCTV's specially-made newsroom-as-set trend offered better and more open-concept visuals, improved lighting, superior acoustics and a smoother flow between on-air personnel and journalists.

This hybrid newsroom-control room set trend (which BCTV developed) made the news studio look less conventional and more like a high-functioning, authentic and professional newsroom.

Ray Peters and Cameron Bell, both BCTV executives, served as the geniuses behind the creation of its unique hybrid newsroom-multi-monitor control room set associated with Tony Parsons.

Ernie Rose was BCTV's technical mastermind; he brought the unique hybrid newsroom-multi-monitor control room set associated with BCTV to life.

The BCTV Television Centre, which is a purpose-built TV building at Enterprise Street in the Lake City Industrial Park, houses its oft-imitated newsroom-multi-monitor control room set.

Modern 21st-century news studio designs do not abandon the CBS, NBC and BCTV philosophies; they instead use digital technology to merge and evolve them into flexible ecosystems.

Having been launched in a Metal year, BCTV (CHAN-TV) is a force in the television industry.

This Metal element represents BCTV (CHAN-TV), not just in television's heavy and hardware-driven nature, but in its physical industrial park location that houses its newsroom-as-set trend.

With its first year being deemed not successful, Today (NBC) decided to introduce something of a new mascot to turn things around: a chimpanzee named J. Fred Muggs.

For J. Fred Muggs, he revitalized the poor ratings that Today (NBC) had caused in its first year.

Besides, J. Fred Muggs also stopped the US television coverage of the British Queen's coronation.

People across the pond were so insulted by J. Fred Muggs interrupting the TV coverage of the British Queen's solemn coronation in the United States that they need commercial competition.

Due to J. Fred Muggs stopping American television's coverage of the solemn coronation of the British Queen, the movement for American-style commercial television in Britain was accelerated.

Eventually, the Television Act 1954 led to Independent Television (ITV).

ITV was unique in that it was a privately-financed television service regulated by a public authority to preserve public decency.

No commercials depicting British royalty were used and aired on ITV.

The first British television channel to break the BBC monopoly since 1936 (except WWII), ITV aired dynamic programs sourced from and modelled after the United States.

For the news section on ITV, it was provided by Independent Television News (ITN).

Having expanded to a half-hour, the CBS Evening News created a set comprising a desk created in the form of a horseshoe (shaped like a U), the newsroom centrepiece and a world map.

Incidentally, the first edition of the half-hour CBS Evening News was aired nearly three months (or 81 days) before John F. Kennedy, featured in this first edition, was assassinated.

Studio 33 at the CBS Broadcast Centre was a permanent home for the Walter Cronkite-era news studio being used for the CBS Evening News.

When its first broadcast from Studio 33 at the CBS Broadcast Centre aired, the CBS Evening News set copied the Graybar newsroom.

Starting in the mid-1960's to 1977, the CBS Evening News set featured a chroma key backdrop, while using the newsroom as a studio centrepiece.

Right after the 1972 Summer Olympic Games, this CBS Evening News set from Studio 33 at the CBS Broadcast Centre was modified to modernize its production.

For this 1972 CBS Evening News set from Studio 33 at the CBS Broadcast Centre, it featured a green chroma key backdrop with a circular globe design, a wireframe world map and a U-shaped desk.

Late-1977 was a period when the CBS Evening News replaced a longtime chroma key backdrop with a small-sized OTS graphic, with the newsroom centrepiece and a wireframe world map intact.

Over the years, the non-bound room inside the RCA Exhibition Hall, the first Today (NBC) studio, has become working bullpens/newsrooms, though not as immersive as its original space.

Working TV bullpens/newsrooms are often placed directly behind the TV news studio desk instead.

Physical/imaginary dividers between the television news studio and the newsroom are used, including glass separating them from the broadcast area.

However, designs placing news anchors in the middle of the newsroom have been used by numerous programs over the years - in varying degrees.

On the other hand, numerous other news studios include smaller work areas seen on-camera.

TV stations also feature camera positions placed inside newsrooms named flash cams; they are used for live reports/updates, as well as prerecorded teases and promos.

Newsrooms are used by television stations as temporary news sets (because enclosed and isolated news studios are being renovated or updated with a new set or equipment).

A similar idea is also often used for working weather centres in modern television studio sets.

When Today (NBC) began, weather centres did not use chroma key.

Upon its early-1950's debut, Today (NBC) used panels, with printed maps, handwritten notations and movable cutout pieces to symbolize weather conditions.

On many local news studio sets, the weather team works in the studio from built-in workstations and video panels, while starting/ending their weather details from behind a working area.

Street-level and windowed television studios, which Today (NBC) pioneered, are still being used.

Technically, all Big Three networks have their morning newscasts from street-level studio sets.

Local US television stations also have street-level and windowed studios, though they often serve as secondary sets or double as a satellite operation for the station's main newsroom.

In many ways, however, street-level studios are public showcases for local television stations.

Many street-level/windowed studios feature set designs being made inside a conventional windowless studio and having looked much indifferent for all intents and purposes.

Besides, news tickers aired on television, pioneered by Today (NBC), were not being launched in their modern form until 1993, nor fully popularized until September 2001.

Jack Webster, well-known as the king of the Vancouver airwaves, is the host of the eponymous BCTV current affairs program called Webster!

Having been seen at 9 a.m. from its October 1978 inception to 1986 (during Expo 86), Jack Webster's Webster! program on BCTV discusses issues important to British Columbians.

For BCTV's Webster! program hosted by Jack Webster, it used the same newsroom-as-set trend as the News Hour with Tony Parsons until Expo 86.

Until Expo 86, Jack Webster's catchphrase on BCTV's Webster! program is "9 a.m. prrre-cisely."

Expo 86 forced Jack Webster's Webster! program on BCTV to be offered at 5 p.m. from an isolated and claustrophobic box-like studio, just before the News Hour with Tony Parsons.

During the Expo 86 world's fair, BCTV operated a broadcast pavilion.

As the fishbowl version of its own newsroom set, the BCTV pavilion at Expo 86 allowed the public to watch a live newsroom and control room in action through glass.

BCTV's pavilion at Expo 86 further emphasized this newsroom-as-set trend.

In 1981, after Dan Rather took over the anchor position, the studio set used by Walter Cronkite for the CBS Evening News from Studio 33 at the CBS Broadcast Centre was modified once again.

Changing from light brown to light blue, a wireframe world map (which used to be a centerpiece) was placed behind anchors for the CBS Evening News from Studio 33 at the CBS Broadcast Centre.

In August 1986, the CBS Evening News relocated 14 blocks up from its longtime Studio 33 home to a newly-designed and high-tech complex at Studio Forty-Seven.

The first broadcast of the CBS Evening News from Studio Forty-Seven at the CBS Broadcast Centre copied the Studio 33 newsroom, but with differences.

For 4 years, while the teletype-like music cue was used in the bumpers and the ending sequences of the CBS Evening News, the world map behind the anchor was mostly used.

However, with its relocation from Studio 33 to Studio Forty-Seven, the CBS Evening News (both in its bumpers and ending sequences) featured extended shots of the newsroom.

In the mid-1990's era or after 1993, Today (NBC) brought back the Dave Garroway-era glass fishbowl concept, but with a difference; it was built for the modern era as Studio 1A.

Jeremy Conway designed the set for Studio 1A in Today (NBC), spearheaded by Steve Friedman.

For Studio 1A being used by Today (NBC), it is based inside 10 Rockefeller Plaza.

The US branch of the British auction house Christie's leased a space formerly being leased by the RCA Exhibition Hall, the first studio for Today (NBC), in 1997, which opened its doors 2 years later.

18 months after its move to Studio 1A, Today (NBC) also notched its first ratings victory over its fierce competitor.

Reese Schonfeld was one of the noted personnel in the United Press Movietone/UPITN group.

In January 1975, TVN disclosed plans to change newsfeed distribution from a long-distance phone line method to a satellite delivery one, using Westar 1, which could send HBO to a national level.

Like HBO's own innovative satellite distribution proposal, TVN's plan was equally-innovative in that it marked the first full use of an American domestic satellite for television program distribution.

Having suffered financial difficulties and having not executed a proposed satellite distribution plan that would have made it a pioneer, TVN closed in 1975 after Coors withdrew its financial support.

Upon its part-owner Visnews' 1974 purchase of the American business of its competitor UPITN, Reese Schonfeld became TVN's Vice President of Operations.

After TVN closed its doors in 1975, Reese Schonfeld founded his own newsfeed distributor named the Independent Television News Association (ITNA).

For ITNA, it was a non-profit independent alternative to the Big Three networks.

Not related to the British television news provider ITN, which partly owned UPITN, for whom Reese Schonfeld worked, ITNA was based at WPIX in the Daily News Building in New York.

John Corporon, the news director for WPIX from 1972 to 1996, was also ITNA's first president.

Using Westar 1, which also carried HBO for its national launch, ITNA had provided both pooled news coverage and newsfeed to independent stations in the United States.

Before ITNA, indie stations relied on film or videotape via air freight for news syndication.

However, ITNA was the first company to provide a daily satellite-delivered news service to America's independent television stations.

ITNA marked the end of the traditional film via air era for indies.

With ITNA's successful satellite plan, Reese Schonfeld joined Ted Turner to launch CNN.

Countering the humorous tone of the 17 Update program on WTCG, CNN used a serious, dramatic and hard-hitting tone.

Satcom 1, which already carried other pioneering cable networks like HBO and TBS, also carried CNN upon its 1980 debut, after its intended satellite Satcom 3 failed to reach orbit and was lost.

Juxtaposing Ted Turner's national satellite-fed basic cable television expertise with Reese Schonfeld's television news background, CNN is television's first 24-hour all-news service.

Ted Kavanau was also involved with CNN's launch.

At WNEW-TV, Ted Kavanau developed the tabloid and fast-paced news style that other indie outlets in major markets across the United States also used, as well as CNN.

Ed Turner, unrelated to Ted Turner despite sharing a surname, was also involved with CNN's launch.

In 1966, Ed Turner started the 10 p.m. news format on a non-Big Three television station in the United States through WNEW-TV's sister station WTTG.

Prior to his work at WTTG, Ed Turner worked at KWTV, where he grew up with the 10 p.m. newscast time slot he later brought to a non-Big Three television station.

For both Ed Turner and Ted Kavanau, they put the 10 p.m. news model on the map of a non-Big Three station through WNEW-TV and WTTG, which Metromedia owned.

Preparing itself for its 1980 debut, CNN recruited some news veterans from the independent television landscape rather than the Big Three networks.

Reese Schonfeld, Ed Turner and Ted Kavanau are some of the notable individuals from non-Big Three television stations who were involved in CNN's launch.

During its first 30 years/3 decades, Cable News Network (CNN) had used the newsroom as its primary studio backdrop from its two primary headquarters in Atlanta.

Just before CNN's June 1980 debut, co-founders Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld were trying to find a model for the newsroom-as-set trend.

BCTV was the closest model to the vision of CNN's co-founders Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld.

Using this BCTV newsroom studio (conceived by Ray Peters and Cameron Bell) as CNN's model, Ted Turner took over the Progressive Club at Techwood Drive.

The Progressive Club's ballroom was renovated into CNN's first studio (based on the Tony Parsons-era hybrid newsroom-multi-monitor control room set trend for BCTV).

For CNN's first set, based on BCTV's hybrid newsroom-multi-monitor control room set (conceived by Ray Peters and Cameron Bell), it was television's first 24-hour newsroom-as-set trend.

Carl "Bunky" Helfrich, who was a childhood friend of Ted Turner, adapted many of the elements of the hybrid newsroom-multi-monitor control room set (originated by BCTV) for CNN.

The Three Musketeers at SuperStation WTBS were Gene Wright, Jack Ormand and Jack Verner.

For the Three Musketeers at SuperStation WTBS, they built the technical infrastructure for CNN's first studio, based on BCTV's hybrid newsroom-control room set.

Playfully referred to as Kosher Kolumns or the "news kibbutz," the Progressive Club was CNN's first headquarters.

ABC had become the top-rated television network in the United States by 1978, and wanted a stronger Charlotte station.

On July 1, 1978, WSOC-TV broke with the stodgy NBC and instead joined the higher-rated ABC.

WSOC-TV is one of the two television stations held by Cox Enterprises in the Southern United States making the switch from NBC to ABC, along with its flagship station in Atlanta.

Still in Charlotte, NBC went to former indie WRET-TV, which Ted Turner ran, in July 1978.

For WRET-TV, it was unique and rare in Ted Turner's portfolio to be affiliated with a major Big Three television network (NBC).

Having finally gained the network affiliation after its independent years, WRET-TV launched its news operation called Action News in 1978.

This Action News format for WRET-TV, under Ted Turner, juxtaposed Action News (WPVI-TV) with Gonna Fly Now (Rocky), both trappings synonymous with Philadelphia.

By financing CNN's June 1, 1980 launch, Ted Turner sold WRET-TV, which was uniquely a local Big Three television station in his portfolio, to Group W/Westinghouse.

Under Group W, WRET-TV became WPCQ-TV on September 29, 1980.

Starting in 1984, WPCQ-TV, which Ted Turner ran as WRET-TV, was sold to different owners.

Group W sold WPCQ-TV to New York-based Odyssey Partners in 1984; 4 years later, the Providence Journal Company (ProJo) acquired WPCQ-TV.

Under ProJo, WPCQ-TV became WCNC-TV on September 3, 1989.

For 5 years, from the early-1990's to 1997, ProJo also held the King Broadcasting Company, a media empire mostly serving the US portion of the Pacific Northwest, which was based in Seattle.

KING-TV is the first television station in the Pacific Northwest region (US/Canada).

The A.H. Belo Corporation, a media company based in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, acquired the Providence Journal Company's media assets, including King Broadcasting, in 1997.

Belo had another Seattle station KIRO-TV, which lasted 2 years until 1997, when it was taken by Cox Enterprises.

Robert Wussler used his 21-year experience from CBS to bring some of its veteran and heavy-hitting personnel to CNN.

Sam Zelman is also one of the most innovative and influential executives in broadcast journalism.

Having pioneered extended time lengths in television news via CBS (30/60 minutes), both locally and nationally, Sam Zelman also pioneered a 24-hour news concept via CNN.

For Sam Zelman, his CBS network used a newsroom studio feature that CNN also used.

Whereas KNXT pioneered the expanded newscast forms in major markets via The Big News, WTVT pioneered this form overall via Pulse.

Jim Kitchell, who masterminded the NBC News Space Centre, was also an original CNN alumni.

Having managed the futurist, space-age and high-tech NASA-style aesthetics at NBC News (including Fred Harpman's NewsCentre design), Jim Kitchell applied these to CNN.

Plus, Jim Kitchell, who served as the technical mastermind behind the Huntley-Brinkley Report, whose multi-city format was based on WSAZ-TV, applied this one to CNN.

For the Huntley-Brinkley Report, Chet Huntley did national and world news from New York, whereas David Brinkley reported politics from Washington.

Resulting from its popularity, its success and its accolades, the Huntley-Brinkley Report has become a news institution on television.

Daniel Schorr, who was one of the later recruits of the legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow at CBS News, was CNN's first on-air employee and its Senior Washington Correspondent.

Bernard Shaw, a recruit of another legendary newsman Walter Cronkite at CBS News, was CNN's first official news anchor, his idol being Edward R. Murrow.

ITNA, which was a early template for CNN, both of which Reese Schonfeld co-founded, was also the company where Daniel Schorr freelanced.

For both Daniel Schorr and Bernard Shaw, they were correspondents on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.

As one of the CBS News personnel directly being recruited by Edward R. Murrow, Daniel Schorr also worked with Walter Cronkite, often contributing to the CBS Evening News.

On the other hand, Bernard Shaw, who named Edward R. Murrow his idol, served in the United States Marine Corps, during which time he met Walter Cronkite, the latter two from CBS News.

Chicken Noodle Network is the nickname that some people used to mock CNN before (and after) its launch.

Some noted aspects that led some people to mock CNN before (and after) its launch include its on-air gaffes, its technical issues and a perceived rag in 24-hour television news.

Plus, before (and after) its launch, CNN had fewer resources than the Big Three networks.

In addition, many people also believed that a 24-hour television news channel in CNN would lead to a boring experience.

Daniel Schorr and Bernard Shaw, both already using CBS News experience (under the legacy that both Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite began), brought credibility to the upstart CNN.

With Daniel Schorr and Bernard Shaw, both having used experience from CBS News, CNN juxtaposed high journalistic standards they honed at broadcast television with low-budget cable.

Although Daniel Schorr left CNN in 1985, Bernard Shaw held on until 2001, becoming the face of the network's global emergence.

Hired by Reese Schonfeld, both Daniel Schorr and Bernard Shaw, along with others, overcame CNN's reputation of being Chicken Noodle Network.

Mary Alice Williams is also a television news pioneer.

Born in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Mary Alice Williams began her television work at her hometown station KSTP-TV as a teenage news reporting girl while in high school.

Just after her graduation from Creighton University (located in Omaha, Nebraska) in 1972, Mary Alice Williams returned to her hometown to be the news executive producer for KSTP-TV.

In 1972, Mary Alice Williams moved to New York, where she worked at WPIX.

Staying in New York, Mary Alice Williams went to WNBC-TV in 1974 as a reporter and anchor.

When Mary Alice Williams arrived at WNBC-TV, Fred Harpman's fututrist, high-tech and cinematic NewsCentre design, the elements of which CNN also used, was firmly established.

At CNN, Mary Alice Williams was the first female solo anchor of a primetime newscast.

Besides, Mary Alice Williams oversaw the building of CNN's New York complex at the World Trade Centre in Manhattan.

The husband-and-wife anchor team from Sacramento, Dave Walker and Lois Hart, the latter individual fittingly being born in Atlanta, delivered the first newscast from CNN.

KCRA-TV and KOVR are local stations that Dave Walker and Lois Hart worked with.

Having started in a year of the Metal element similar to BCTV, CNN is an industrial force.

The Metal element represents CNN, not just in the heavy and hardware-driven nature of the television industry, but also in its newsroom-as-set trend based on BCTV.

By 1985, years after its June 1, 1980 launch, CNN had outgrown its original Techwood Drive hub, and Ted Turner acquired the Omni International complex in downtown Atlanta from Tom Cousins.

With Ted Turner acquiring this Omni complex, CNN incorporated its BCTV-inspired newsroom-as-set aesthetic on a larger scale.

Seven years after its June 1, 1980 launch, CNN officially completed its relocation to the former Omni complex, which became known as CNN Centre.

Mirroring his earlier feat of turning the Atlanta country club into the BCTV-inspired newsroom-as-set trend for CNN, Carl "Bunky" Helfrich turned the former Omni complex into CNN Centre.

By turning the Omni complex into CNN Centre, Ted Turner revived Atlanta's ailing downtown core.

During its first 6 years at CNN Centre, the colours of some elements being used in CNN's BCTV-style newsroom-as-set trend were red.

In 1993, the colours of some of the elements being used in CNN's newsroom set based on BCTV were changed from red to blue.

Just 11 years after its official move to the former Omni complex, CNN renovated its own set in October 1998, still incorporating its BCTV-inspired newsroom-as-set trend.

Rene Lagler supervised the scenic design for this renovated CNN newsroom-as-set trend, whilst Robert Dickinson did its lighting construction.

This October 1998 renovation of CNN's BCTV-inspired newsroom set design was the final pre-digital revolution of its aesthetic before LED-heavy studios came along in May 2010.

For Linden Soles, he bridged the gap between the two channels that shared the same newsroom-as-set trends: BCTV (under Tony Parsons) and CNN (under Tom Johnson).

Studio 7, introduced in May 2010, marked the end of CNN's long-standing signature newsroom-as-set aesthetic.

This setup for CNN's Studio 7 in Atlanta influenced its Washington studio in the early-2010's.

Clickspring Design designed Studio 7 for CNN.

By 2014, as production shifted to New York and Washington, CNN's real Studio 7 was dormant, and it utilized virtual backdrops before abandoning the use for daytime programs.

Jeff Zucker masterminded the brief reinstatement of the newsroom-as-set trends for CNN before Chris Licht removed them permanently.

During the early-to-mid-2020's, both CNN and HLN moved away from CNN Centre and went back to their origins at Techwood Drive.

In June 2025, The Source with Kaitlan Collins moved to Washington D.C. with the newsroom-as-set trend, reinstating CNN's iconic aesthetic.

From its launch in the early-1980's (which came 19 months after the original CNN started), to February 2005, CNN Headline News used a multi-monitor control room-like set.

In 1993, CNN Headline News introduced its constant SportsTicker, and 6 years later, in the late-1990's, CNN Headline News introduced a newsroom-as-set trend to facilitate four watches.

On August 6, 2001, a revamp for CNN Headline News came with an internet-inspired presentation.

Similarly, both BCTV (CHAN-TV) and CNN made obsolete their iconic and famous newsroom-as-set trends in 2010 after the late-2009 departures of both Tony Parsons and Lou Dobbs.

Lou Dobbs left CNN in November 2009, and Tony Parsons later left BCTV (CHAN-TV) in December 2009.

Roone Arledge and Reese Schonfeld served as masterminds in bringing the concept of the news studio with a regular newsroom backdrop to the world through ABC News and CNN.

In 1993, to commemorate its own news crew, a retired Live Eye truck for CityPulse was added to 299's east wall, appearing as if it were going through the brick.

So successful was Moses Znaimer's informal CityPulse format for CityTV that it was utilized by many others all around the world, as well as its elements.

Radio-Canada used the CNN-style newsroom-as-set trend from 2002 to the mid-2010's.

However, this newsroom-as-set trend was not new for Radio-Canada, as it was already being used from the mid-1980's to 1989, and in the mid-1990's until 1997.

Staying in Quebec, TVA used the newsroom-as-set trend from the late-1980's to the early-2010's.

Ville-Marie, a borough in Montreal, was the permanent home for Studio N (TVA).

For BCTV, its newsroom-as-set trend became so successful that other television stations across British Columbia began using this format.

CHEK-TV, a sister station to BCTV (CHAN-TV), used the newsroom-as-set trend from 1984 to 1997.

780 Kings Road was a testing ground for CHEK-TV's newsroom-as-set trend from 1984 to 1997.

However, the CHEK-TV newsroom-as-set trend from 1984 to 1997 never reached the similar theatrical scale to BCTV's at Enterprise Street, which is located in the Lake City Industrial Park.

Plus, CIVT and CKVU are Vancouver's independent stations that formerly used the CityTV format.

During its first years, VTV (CIVT) used the CityPulse formula that Moses Zniamer developed.

Baton's president and CEO Ivan Fecan was mentored by CityTV's Moses Znaimer, whose format was a new inspiration for the new Vancouver station in VTV (CIVT).

Monika Deol, who hosted music-themed programs on CityTV/MuchMusic, was also a news anchor for both CIVT and CKVU, bridging the two BC stations that shared the same CityPulse trend.

Initially, the New VI (CIVI) used the CityPulse formula until Hudson Mack from CHEK-TV came.

Under Hudson Mack, the New VI (CIVI) abandoned the informal CityPulse style and made changes to attract a broader audience, like adding a news anchor desk and a more traditional approach.

Since his arrival, Hudson Mack has revived the credibility and reputation of the New VI (CIVI).

CBUT has also used the newsroom-as-set trend since 2009.

Michaela Pereira also bridged the gap between the two television services that formerly shared the same newsroom-as-set trends: CHEK-TV and CNN.

The BCTV newsroom-as-set trend, however, serves as the gold standard for television news in British Columbia; it lasted until 2010, after Tony Parsons departed in December 2009.

With its purpose-built newsroom-as-set trend, BCTV was like Canada's CNN.

Still in the Pacific Northwest, but in the US portion, KING-TV, KIRO-TV and KOIN-TV all used the newsroom-as-set trends.

During its final years as the KING Newservice prior to its 1978 rebrand as KING 5 News, KING-TV utilized the newsroom-as-set trend.

In Calgary, CICT used the newsroom-as-set trend from the mid-1990's to the mid-noughties.

Meanwhile, in Atlantic Canada, stations such as Atlantic Television (ATV) and Maritimes Independent Television (MITV) used the newsroom-as-set trends.

For Live at 5, ATV revolutionzed television news in Atlantic Canada.

Meanwhile, by completing of the March 2013 move of its news operations from Television Centre to Broadcasting House, the BBC began using a newsroom-as-set trend.

However, the newsroom-as-set trend was not new for the BBC's news operation, since it was already utilized from the late-1980's until 1993 physically for the Nine O'Clock News.

Some of the complaints for the BBC's late-1980s attempt to do the newsroom-as-set trend for the Nine O'Clock News include flashing computer screens, walking news staff and ringing telephones.

Virtually, the newsroom backdrop was used for the domestic BBC News programs for four years since 1972, and again from the late-1990's to 2013.

During its initial years, ITN was based at Television House at Kingsway in London, which also housed Associated-Rediffusion's administrative headquarters and transmission facilities.

In 1969, ITN relocated to its new headquarters at 48 Wells Street in London's West End.

As for Associated-Rediffusion's successor Thames, it moved to its purpose-built studios and offices at Euston Road.

Upon its move to its new hub at 200 Grays Inn Road designed by Norman Foster, ITN used a working newsroom for its newscasts on ITV until the mid-1990's.

Whereas some news programs from ITN emanated from 200 Grays Inn Road, others like News at Ten (ITV) still emanated from ITN House, based at 48 Wells Street, for a period after its move.

Sky News had used the newsroom-as-set trend from its February 1989 debut to the late-2010's.

John O'Loan masterminded this newsroom-as-set trend for Sky News upon its 1989 launch.

Contrasting to the complaints of the BBC's revamp of the Nine O'Clock News (until 1993), Sky News, which began over 3 months after the BBC's, was slick, professional and polished.

Plus, Sky News used the American-style happy talk format.

The original newsroom-as-set trend for Sky News was based on CNN (and in turn, BCTV).

For its unique news studio layout, BCTV juxtaposed the regular newsroom backdrop (CBS) with Fred Harpman's NewsCentre (NBC) and its locally-owned indie station status.

Whereas the BBC had the newsroom set (without the multi-monitor control room), Sky News used the newsroom-as-set trend with the multi-monitor control room.

Incidentally, the first Sky News set was the first 24-hour newsroom-as-set trend on British television.

October 24, 2005 was when the Sky News Centre, a newsroom-as-set trend that was designed by Jack Morton Worldwide and built by the Janson Design Group and PDG, was introduced.

For Australia's three commercial television services, their news operations have enclosed and isolated studio sets comprising of a world map backdrop with a blue hue until the late-1990's.

In late-1985, National Nine News in Melbourne/Victoria broke from tradition with the newsroom-as-set trend, the first of its kind in Australia.

Similar to the newsroom-as-set trend that ABC World News Tonight used during its initial years in New York as its main hub, this trend for National Nine News in Melbourne/Victoria lasted until 1993.

National Nine News in Brisbane also began using the newsroom-as-set trend in the late-1980's.

In 1996, a revamped newsroom-as-set trend for National Nine News in Brisbane/Queensland was first utilized in celebration of its fortieth anniversary of the Nine Network.

The revamped 1996-era newsroom-as-set trend for National Nine News in Brisbane was based on the newsroom-as-set trend for the CBS Evening News that BDI designed, also since 1996.

With its move to Pyrmont, Ten News in Sydney began to use the CNN-style newsroom-as-set trend.

However, the newsroom-as-set trend was not new for Ten News in Sydney/New South Wales, as it was already being used in the late-1980's as the last one from North Ryde.

During Brisbane's World Expo, TVO/Brisbane Ten Eyewitness News used the newsroom-as-set trend, similar to the BCTV pavilion at Expo 86.

Lowell Thomas delivered the television broadcast of the Republican National Convention, which was being held over 9 months after the Second World War began, via NBC.

With the Philadelphia Convention Hall in Philadelphia being its main venue, the Republican National Convention during WWII was the first live television coverage of its kind.

Conversely, the televised coverage of the US presidential election, held over a year after World War II started, was on an experimental/local basis and radio-friendly, as television was not yet popular.

Besides, the studio set designs for the TV coverage of the US presidential election, over one year after WWII started, used theatrical trends being austere, flat and claustrophobic like a cardboard box.

Unusually, Lowell Thomas delivered this telecast of the GOP convention, 9 months after World War II started, from NBC's headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York, not Philadelphia.

The 1948 US presidential election was the first to use television for politics in the post-war era.

Plus, the 1948 US presidential election marked the first divisions in American's main political parties during the Cold War.

Aside from the firsts, the summer 1948 Philadelphia political conventions were the first on TV in the period after the Second World War.

During the summer 1948 Philadelphia political conventions, coaxial cable was the link for television stations in the East Coast, the first to offer gavel-to-gavel coverage live on television.

Nevertheless, the television coverage of the 1948 US presidential election was being presented on a regional level.

Similarly, the 1948 US presidential election was radio-friendly, as television was not yet popular.

Having lacked air conditioning, the summer 1948 political conventions, all of which were being taken place in Philadelphia, suffered heat exhaustion.

Incidentally, the set designs for the TV coverage of the 1948 US presidential election utilized box-like theatrical trends, just like the previous 2 of them.

Just 4 years after the televised 1948 US presidential election coverage, the early-1950's US presidential election was the first television coverage from coast to coast and on a prominent level.

Besides, this TV coverage of the early-1950's US presidential election also featured the first computer.

For the early-1950's US presidential election, the newly-completed microwave/coaxial system via the American Telephone & Telegraph Company helped solve the 1948 issues.

Nearly 10 months before the early-1950's US presidential election, Today (NBC) started its successful tenure from the RCA Exhibition Hall.

Just before Dave Garroway, television news featured anchors who delivered the day's stories in a studio resembling a claustrophobic box/theatrical stage with journalists backstage in a bullpen.

However, Dave Garroway's innovations, including Garroway at Large and Today (NBC), tore down the walls, juxtaposing the main stage in the news studio with the backstage workspace bullpen.

CBS Television, for its early-1950's US presidential election coverage, used the UNIVAC I, accurately predicting that the GOP presidential nominee would win by a landslide.

Standing for the Universal Automatic Computer I, the UNIVAC I was innovative in that it was the first general-purpose electronic digital computer for business applications produced in the US.

Walter Cronkite delivered the nationally-televised coverage of the early-1950's US presidential election campaign through CBS.

At the time of this US presidential election in the early-1950's period, Walter Cronkite was also the first newscaster for a CBS station in the nation's capital, which was WTOP-TV (now WUSA)

Furthermore, CBS Television covered the summer political conventions, taken place in Chicago, in the early-1950's era; its main face/voice was Walter Cronkite.

The word anchor is utilized in the sports world to describe the final and most crucial segment in a relay competition, getting the baton from the starting point to the finish line.

Sig Mickelson popularized the anchor word to coordinate TV news in the same start-to-finish road.

Using the UNIVAC I computer, the bullpen for the nationally-televised coverage of the early-1950's US presidential elections became a usual election feature in the television scene.

For the nationally-televised coverage of the early-1950's US presidential election campaign, the studio designs were more dynamic, influenced by Dave Garroway and using the UNIVAC.

Meanwhile, the last 2 British general elections being held under King George VI were presented by the BBC Television Service, also the first ones on television.

Housing the television coverage of the last 2 British general elections being held under the King on the BBC Television Service was Alexandra Palace.

A few years later, the first British general election being taken place under Queen Elizabeth II was also regarded as the first to provide television coverage on a prominent and a comprehensive level.

Nevertheless, the television coverage of the first British general election under Queen Elizabeth II was being presented on an almost national level.

Plus, the tally boards were used in the first British general election under Queen Elizabeth II.

Incidentally, the studio set designs for the first British general elections on television utilized theatrical trends being austere, flat and claustrophobic like a cardboard box, during the early-to-mid-1950's.

For the television coverage of the second British general election under the Queen, it was also the first general election being presented on a completely national basis.

Plus, for the second British general election under the Queen, some changes to televised election night coverage were being made.

Besides the new American-style and ad-supported ITV network ending the BBC's long monopoly, the Swingometer became national and an informal presentation by Cliff Michelmore was used.

During the second British general election under the Queen, ITN used the DEUCE computer, while the BBC used the Elliott one, renamed Ella.

Utilizing both the DEUCE and Ella computers, the second British general election being held under the Queen also marked the first computer-driven general election coverage on British television.

Like the early-1950's American presidential election, the studio set designs for this nationally-televised coverage of the second British general election under the Queen were more dynamic.

To put it another way, the studio set designs for this nationally-televised coverage of the second British general election under the Queen were influenced by Dave Garroway and the UNIVAC.

Whereas BBC Television's coverage of the first British general election under the Queen did not use a bullpen as a centrepiece, BBC Television's coverage of the second one made usage.

Grand Central Terminal was the studio location for the first telecasts that covered the US presidential election via CBS until 1960.

Studio 41, which is at the CBS Broadcast Centre (located at West 57th Street), was the nerve centre for election night coverage for 24 years from the mid-1960's to the late-1980's.

Besides, Studio 41 at the CBS Broadcast Centre was also CBS News Election Headquarters.

The studio venue for BBC Television's coverage of the first 2 British general elections being held under Queen Elizabeth II was Lime Grove.

Conversely, the studio for ITN's first 4 British general election broadcasts was Television House.

From the mid-1960's era to 2010, the studio location for BBC Television's election night coverage was Television Centre in London, especially Studio TC1.

ITN House was the studio location for ITN's coverage of the remaining British general elections being taken place under Queen Elizabeth II from 1974 to the late-1980's.

Grays Inn Road was the studio venue for ITN's last British general election telecasts under the Queen.

Vzglyad is one of the radical Soviet programs during the era marked by glasnost and perestroika.

Juxtaposing fast-paced and hard-hitting Western-style journalism with music videos seen on/made à la MTV, Vzglyad changed the television landscape in the Eastern Bloc.

Eduard Sagalaev, who had been involved in the youth department of the television scene in the Soviet Union since 1975, which he also led starting in 1984, co-created Vzglyad.

Besides, Eduard Sagalaev also created and hosted a program that was named after the 12th floor of the Ostankino Technical Centre in Moscow, where Soviet television's youth division was based.

The 12th Floor (USSR) pioneered a live satellite-fed split-screen concept.

Besides both the 12th Floor and Vzglyad, Eduard Sagalaev was also the chief editor of the information department of the television scene in the Soviet Union, lasting 2 years until 1990.

Despite his short reign as Soviet television's information chief, Eduard Sagalaev was involved in some programs breaking with tradition.

7 Days is the first true weekly television newsmagazine in the Soviet Union, an innovative attempt to reform journalism in the Eastern Bloc.

TSN is an innovative television news program in the Soviet Union, which offers rolling and fast-paced news briefs à la CNN Headline News.

Having been innovative in the East's television news, TSN has news anchors in a natural tone.

Both 7 Days and TSN used a studio set with a multi-monitor control room backdrop.

The sets used by both 7 Days and TSN were based on Fred Harpman's futurist, high-tech and cinematic NewsCentre design, and in turn, the open area for Today (NBC) under Dave Garroway.

NBC modelled Fred Harpman's NewsCentre, the elements of which were adapted from his own nerve centre designs in Search/Probe and Fantastic Voyage and for the sets for both 7 Days and TSN.

Due to both 7 Days and TSN, the flagship Soviet television newscast began ditching the chroma key background on January 1, 1990.

Chicago pioneered the Chicago Style concept being used on television via Dave Garroway, developed further in New York, where, in turn, the newsroom set/feel began on Today (NBC).

Labvakar is one of the regional incarnations of the innovative Vzglyad program, but also one of the key components of the Singing Revolution across the Baltics.

During the 1980's, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher and Helmut Kohl worked to stamp out communism in the Eastern Bloc.

The successful efforts being led by Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher and Helmut Kohl in ending the Cold War paved the way for Eastern Europe's liberalization.

For Ronald Reagan, he uses aggressive policies to bring both the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc to their eventual collapses.

Glasnost and perestroika are noted policies spearheaded by Mikhail Gorbachev.

On the other hand, Margaret Thatcher supported Ronald Reagan's efforts to end the Cold War.

As for Helmut Kohl, he supported Ronald Reagan's aggressive policies to oppose communism.

Plus, Lech Walesa, whose Solidarity movement in Poland was supported by the United States, created changes to the Eastern Bloc that ended the Cold War.

Lane Kirkland was the second President of the AFL-CIO during the 1980's and the 1990's.

Similar to his own precursor George Meany, he had strong anti-communism; his strong support of the Polish-rooted Solidarity movement led to the collapse of the Eastern Bloc.

Not confined to being a politician, Ronald Reagan is also an actor, doubling as an individual who was involved in the US military during the Second World War.

While in the US military during WWII, Ronald Reagan assisted David Conover in launching Marilyn Monroe's career.

Having been discovered during World War II by David Conover (assisted by Ronald Reagan), Marilyn Monroe was also known as Norma Jeane Mortenson/Norma Jeane Baker/Norma Jeane Dougherty.

Nikita Khrushchev uses policies leading to the Soviet Union's brief liberalization.

In the late-1950's, Nikita Khrushchev visited the United States.

California is one of the places that Nikita Khrushchev travelled to during his 13-day visit to the United States, in which he met Hollywood stars, including Marilyn Monroe.

Similarly, both Nikita Khrushchev and Mikhail Gorbachev are individuals having Sergeyevich as their middle name, but also individuals who change the Eastern Bloc.

Likewise, Marilyn Monroe's spirit also brings Western pop culture/capitalism to this Eastern Bloc after Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher and Helmut Kohl ended the Cold War.

For Gennadi Gerasimov, he revolutionized public diplomacy in the Eastern Bloc by using Western pop culture references, breaking with tradition.

During WWII, Ronald Reagan assisted David Conover in launching Marilyn Monroe's career; as US President, he worked to end the Cold War with Mikhail Gorbachev.

Plus, Nikita Khrushchev, who oversaw the Soviet Union's brief liberalization, met Marilyn Monroe.

Irena Neumann, whose first husband Henry T. Weinstein produced the last ever film for the iconic and world-famous sex icon Marilyn Monroe, married Solidarity supporter Lane Kirkland in 1973.

Mikhail Gorbachev is the first winner of the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award (which is named after his friend) for his efforts to end the Cold War and pursuing glasnost and perestroika.

Lech Walesa is the 11th recipient of the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award for bringing democracy to the Eastern Bloc, which coincides with the namesake's centennial.

In 1998, Margaret Thatcher is the sixth winner of the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award, named after her friend and ally, for her strong anti-communism.

Khreshchatyk Street, based in central Kyiv, once housed a radio and television studio during the Soviet period from the early-1950's to the early-1990's, when public television moved to the Pencil.

During its post-Soviet era, the Pencil housed public television in the Ukraine (with Khreshchatyk as its secondary hub).

March 9, 1996, which was the birthday of Taras Shevenchenko and the day after International Women's Day, was when a fire broke out at a radio and television studio at Khreshchatyk.

In late-2021, even before the break-out of the Russo-Ukrainian war in February 2022, Suspilne revived and modernized Khreshchatyk by introducing a modern newsroom-as-set trend.

This newsroom-as-set trend being developed for Suspilne at Khreshchatyk Street (influenced by global broadcasters like CNN) is called NewsHouse 2.0.

Housing the main television studio for NewsHouse 2.0 for Suspilne at Khreshchatyk is a glass cube.

Designing NewsHouse 2.0 for Suspilne at Khreshchatyk was a design team led by Slava Balbek.

With NewsHouse 2.0, Suspilne became the Ukraine's main source for accurate and unbiased news and information during the Russo-Ukrainian war.

NewsHouse 2.0, developed for Suspilne, serves as a collaboration between partners, like BBC Media Action and DW Akademie with funding from the European Union.

Televisa began using the newsroom-as-set trend designed by BDI in the mid-noughties.

Based on CNN (and in turn, BCTV), Televisa's own newsroom-as-set trend was part of the newly-built expansion of its Chapultepec headquarters.

However, this newsroom-as-set trend was not new for Televisa, as it was already used, shortly after the April 1997 death of Emilio Azcarraga Milmo until 1998, for 24 Horas with Jacobo Zabludovsky.

Plus, Televisa's local stations, like XEWT and XHBC, use the newsroom-as-set trend.

Rival TV Azteca used the newsroom-as-set trend for some Hechos editions from the late-1990's to the noughties.

ECO, which is television's first all-news service in both Latin America and the Hispanic world, used a multi-monitor control room set similar to CNN Headline News.

During the Carlos Menem presidency, newsroom-as-set trends were introduced to Argentina in a more modern and professional manner.

For example, Telenoche (Artear) used a studio set, which featured a multi-monitor control room as its primary backdrop, designed to have a working newsroom feel.

In Chile, from 1990 to 2002, 24 Horas (TVN) utilized a small-sized newsroom-as-set trend.

Also in Chile, Teletrece (UCTV) used the newsroom-as-set trend from the 1990's to the noughties.

However, the newsroom-as-set trend was not new for Teletrece (UCTV), as it was already used for its secondary editions (afternoons/late-nights) during the 1980's.

QAP broke from tradition by using a newsroom-as-set trend, the first of its kind in Colombia.

Based on one for CNN (and in turn, BCTV), the newsroom-as-set trend for QAP conveyed urgency and transparency that other newscasts in Colombia have not.

Since QAP, this newsroom-as-set trend has been used by Colombia's private television services, such as RCN, Caracol and CityTV, the latter being based on the original Toronto version.

Meanwhile, in Peru, Red Global used the Canal De Noticias NBC set, but through chroma key, and in 1997, a physical newsroom-as-set trend was used.

From the early-1990's to 2017, Uruguay's Canal 4 used the newsroom-as-set trend known as the Centro Monte Carlo de Noticias, translated into English as the Monte Carlo News Centre.

The Centro Monte Carlo De Noticias was based on one for CNN, and in turn, BCTV.

Also in Uruguay, Teledoce utilized newsroom-as-set trends, including the one being based upon CNN International from the late-1990's to the mid-2010's.

TROS Aktua (formerly Aktua-TV) used a newsroom-as-set trend, which was one of the first to do so in Europe, upon its debut in 1974 until 1985.

VTM used newsroom-as-set trends, including one designed by BDI from 1996 to the mid-noughties. 

Until 1984, both Tagesschau (ARD) and Heute (ZDF) held a national duopoly on the German television news landscape.

Sat.1 and RTL, both being the first national private television channels in Germany, countered this news formula of both ARD and ZDF with their dynamic, American-style news aesthetics.

For Sat.1, its own launch on January 1, 1984 (New Year's Day 1984) resulted in the introeduction of the newsroom-as-set trend to the DACH region.

ORF and SF DRS followed in the Sat.1 footsteps by adopting this trend, first in 1984 and then in 1985.

ProSieben used the physical newsroom-as-set trend, which was based on WSVN (and in turn, CNN and BCTV), for three years since 1996.

N24 (now Welt) has used the physical newsroom-as-set trend since the mid-noughties

In August 1986, Aktuellt (SVT) began to use the newsroom as a backdrop, but on a temporary basis.

The newsroom-as-set trend for Aktuellt (SVT) became a permanent one with the launch of ABC, which served as a regional newscast covering Stockholm and Uppsala.

For Aktuellt (SVT), the permanent newsroom-as-set trend setup lasted until September 2001.

Nyhetshuset was a testing ground for the newsroom-as-set trend for Aktuellt (SVT).

During its first 17 years, TV4 (Sweden) had used the CNN-style newsroom-as-set trend.

Storangsbotten, located in Stockholm, housed a television studio, which doubled as a testing ground for the CNN-style newsroom-as-set trend for TV4 from September 1990 to May 1996.

On the other hand, MTV3 (Finland) used the physical CNN-style newsroom-as-set trend, which lasted from 1990 to the late-2010's.

The use of this newsroom-as-set trend for MTV3 (which was similar to one for CNN) started with the imminent launch of its 7 p.m. newscast in 1990.

Pollolaakso, located in Ilmala in Helsinki, near its railway station, served as the testing ground for the CNN-style newsroom-as-set trend for MTV3.

MTV3's newsroom-as-set trend was modernized in 2001 for its 20th year since its 1981 launch.

Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB), during 1977, broke from tradition by using the American-style multi-monitor control room news set, the first of its kind in Asia.

For TVB, its 1977 news studio design was based on Fred Harpman's futurist, high-tech and cinematic NewsCentre design for NBC, and in turn, the open area for Today (NBC) under Dave Garroway.

NBC modelled Fred Harpman's NewsCentre, the elements of which were adapted from his own nerve centre designs in Search/Probe and Fantastic Voyage and for the 1977 TVB news set.

Rediffusion Television (Hong Kong), during 1980, broke from tradition by utilizing the American-style newsroom-as-set trend, the first of its kind in Asia, like TVB during 1977.

During 1980, RTV used the ABC News elements under Roone Arledge, like a masthead.

In the mid-1980's era, NHK General TV began using the newsroom-as-set trend for News Centre 9, the first of its kind in Japan, which lasted until its demise in the late-1980's.

This newsroom-as-set trend for NHK's NC9 program was styled after American networks.

During this period, Taro Kimura, born in the United States, and Midori Miyazaki, who formerly did the weather forecasts for this program, anchored NC9 from the newsroom.

Meanwhile, in 1985, All-Nippon News Network (ANN) began using the newsroom-as-set trend, which was based on one for CNN (and in turn, BCTV).

The Ark Broadcasting Centre, to which ANN moved in 1985, was the testing ground for this innovative newsroom-as-set trend within Japan's commercial television sector.

Even with its move to Roppongi Hills, ANN still used the CNN-style newsroom-as-set trend.

Whereas NHK was a pioneer in using the newsroom-as-set trend for News Centre 9, TV Asahi's News Station did the same, but within the commercial television sector.

News Station's launch stemmed from Japan Cable Television, which TV Asahi partly owned, striking a deal with CNN, back in the early-1980's.

JCTV's deal with CNN led to the latter's official introduction to Japan in 1984.

In 1998, a year after its relocation to Odaiba in March 1997, Fuji News Network (FNN) started to use a CNN-style newsroom-as-set trend, lasting until 2013.

Kenzo Tange's ultra-modern building was the permanent home for the FNN newsroom-as-set trend.

Meanwhile, Nippon News Network (NNN) used the CNN-style newsroom-as-set trend, not simply for Plus 1 in its last years, but also for its Real Time program in its first years.

NHK Japan-World opened its headquarters in New York in spring 2021, utilizing the newsroom-as-set trend that Provost Design had created.

December 1, 1980 was when colour television was introduced to South Korea, with full-time national colour services launching on January 1, 1981.

Using NTSC colour, South Korea's television industry had made many improvements.

In the early-to-mid-1980's era, KBS' television services pioneered Western-like aesthetics, including the newsroom-as-set trend and the working newsroom feel, the first of any kind in South Korea.

July 1984 was when KBS adopted its CNN-style newsroom-as-set trend for its flagship 9 p.m. newscast that lasted until the turn of the 21st century.

The brief interruption of the KBS newsroom-as-set trend was from January 1997 to May 1998.

Meanwhile, MBC adopted the newsroom-as-set rend, based on one for the CBS Evening News, which BDI designed in 1996; it lasted during the first half of the noughties.

SBS also used the CNN-style newsroom-as-set trend (with a rotating news desk) for its main newscast from the mid-noughties to the early-2010's.

However, this newsroom-as-set trend was not new for SBS, as it was already used for its main 8 p.m. newscast upon its debut in the early-1990's, like KBS.

With Taiwan's martial law being lifted, TTV began using the newsroom-as-set trend in 1989.

Just as Rediffusion (Hong Kong) was the first television channel in East Asia and the Chinese world to utilize the newsroom-as-set trend, TTV was the first in Taiwan to do so.

During its first 3 decades, from the mid-1960's to December 31, 1993, MediaCorp's precursors utilized isolated and enclosed news sets, either using a skyline or a plain backdrop.

However, spurred by Singapore Cable Vision (SCV), the first of its channels being NewsVision (whose schedule comprised CNN International), television news in Singapore made some changes.

For instance, Channel 5 began using CNN-like newsroom studio set.

NDTV, which is the first independent news broadcaster in India, has endured its dynamic, modern and Western-style news aesthetic since its inception in the late-1980's.

Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy, both educated in the UK, are the former masterminds behind NDTV.

Doordarshan, having endured a monopoly on Indian television, offered both domestic and global news coverage, with NDTV as a private television production house.

The World This Week was the first program produced for NDTV.

For its debut, The World This Week used a studio set design, which was made on a physical level with monitor banks, in contrast to Doordarshan's staid design.

Due to the success of its first program called The World This Week, NDTV joined with Doordarshan to present the television coverage of the 1989 Indian general election.

For one reason, the television coverage of the 1989 Indian general election was the first of its kind to be offered on a live basis.

Plus, the live television coverage of the 1989 Indian general election was co-produced by NDTV, which marked the first time a private news broadcaster did election broadcasts.

In addition, this televised coverage of the 1989 Indian general election, co-produced by NDTV, featured national hotlines, polling analysts and technical innovations, like dynamic visuals.

Besides, the bullpen was used as a studio feature for the television coverage of the 1989 Indian general election, co-produced by NDTV.

Unusually, the bullpen was at the back of the studio for NDTV's 1989 Indian general election telecast.

Television news in South Asia underwent its modernization, spurred by NDTV, the 1990's satellite TV boom and India's economic reforms.

CNN's Gulf War coverage, for instance

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RCTI, the first privately-owned television channel in Indonesia, has endured its dynamic, modern and American-style news aesthetic since its 1989 inception.

Some of the American-style news elements for the RCTI channel include a news set, which featured a multi-monitor control room backdrop, plus live reports, dynamic graphics and modern music.

The 1993 RCTI news studio, with a multi-monitor control room backdrop, was the first in Indonesia to utilize a working newsroom feel.

Kebon Jeruk was the permanent home for a working newsroom feel, which RCTI pioneered.

Pete Langlois, who was the news director at KCRA-TV, a local NBC station in the United States, had shaped RCTI's American-style strategy since its 1989 inception.

NBC modelled Fred Harpman's NewsCentre, the elements of which were adapted from his own nerve centre designs in Search/Probe and Fantastic Voyage and for RCTI's 1993 news studio.

Incidentally, NBC had good relations with KCRA-TV (from which Pete Langlois came to Indonesia to shape RCTI's US-style strategy).

Therefore, Fred Harpman's NewsCentre design, which NBC (and WNBC-TV) had commissioned, was adapted for the innovative 1993 news set with a multi-monitor backdrop for RCTI.

SCTV, with its 2008 relocation to the new, high-tech and multi-story SCTV Tower in the Senayan City complex, was Indonesia's first TV channel to use the newsroom as a studio feature.

Liputan 6, starting in 2008, used the newsroom having an immersive space at the SCTV Tower.

For SCTV, its newsroom-as-set trend doubled down on RCTI's innovative news studio design that Pete Langlois conceived in 1993, due to its 2008 move to the SCTV Tower.

The newsroom as a studio centrepiece for SCTV, which, in turn, was based on the Walter Cronkite-era CBS Evening News set, lasted from a new look in mid-August 2008 to the mid-2010's.

RCTI and SCTV, both privately-owned services that forged a joint agreement from 1990 to 1996, have introduced both the newsroom-as-set trend and the working newsroom feel to Indonesia.

NET. (Indonesia) used a newsroom-as-set trend, doubling down on SCTV's newsroom feature at the SCTV Tower in 2008, plus RCTI's control room news set that Pete Langlois conceived in 1993.

Designed in 2013 by BDI, the newsroom set for NET. was based on CNN (and in turn, BCTV).

Whereas SCTV had the newsroom set (without the multi-monitor control room), NET. bridged the gap between RCTI (1993 multi-monitor control room studio) and SCTV (2008 newsroom studio).

iTV, which was the first television service to be operated independently on the UHF band in Thailand, broke from tradition by adopting the CNN-style newsroom-as-set trend upon its 1996 launch.

Led by former US ambassadors Ronald Lauder and Mark Palmer, CME has been a pioneer in bringing Western-influenced (Western European and American) media principles to the Eastern Bloc.

For CME, it facilitates the Eastern Bloc's television modernization by mixing Western-style television presentation (specifically American and Hollywood) with local Eastern content.

Plus, CME exports Western management and marketing strategies to the Eastern Bloc.

Since 2020, CME has been run by the PFF Group, a multinational investment group founded by Czech businessman Petr Kellner, breaking from its American ties.

During the Cold War, television in Eastern Europe was staid.

With the television channels held by CME, television in Eastern Europe was modernized by adopting newsroom-as-set trends based on CNN.

As glasnost and perestroika loosened strict controls on media, Eduard Sagalaev changed the television landscape in the Eastern Bloc with Vzglyad, the 12th Floor, 7 Days and TSN.

Initially based in London, MBC has been a pioneer in bringing Western-style (Western European and American) media principles to the Arab world.

MBC facilitates the modernization of television in the Arab world by mixing Western-style television presentation (specifically American and Hollywood) with local Arab content, similar to CME.

Plus, like CME, MBC exports Western management and marketing strategies to the Arab world.

Waleed bin Ibrahim Al Ibrahim, an American-educated Saudi businessman, ran MBC as the television service of his ARAvision group.

London, known for its liberal and independent media environment, was MBC's first base.

Both CME and MBC are pioneers in bringing Western media principles to the two emerging markets in Eurasia, turning them into pluralistic, commercially-driven media economies.

Sam Barnett, who worked at MBC Group from 2002 to 2025 (14 as its CEO), also works at CME.

For Sam Barnett, he bridges both the CME and MBC companies, which, from their early period in the 1990's, facilitated television's modernization in both the Eastern Bloc and the Arab world.

Just before CNN's innovative coverage of the first Gulf War, television channels across the Arab world have used isolated and enclosed news studio sets.

Spurred by CNN's Gulf War coverage, private Arabic TV channels use CNN-like newsroom studios.

London, which served as the primary base for MBC until 2002, was a testing ground for Western-made broadcast technology, infrastructure and expertise previously unused in the Arab world.

Dubai Media City was MBC's second base from 2002 to 2022, with Saudi Arabia as its third base.

For most of its run at Dubai Media City, MBC used the CNN-style newsroom-as-set trend.

Al-Arabiya, which is MBC's sister channel, also used the similar CNN-style newsroom-as-set trend as MBC from its launch around the Iraqi War until 2020.

Clickspring Design renovated MBC's CNN-style newsroom-as-set trend at Dubai Media City in 2017, which blended Islamic-inspired design elements with modern technology.

Meanwhile, Clickspring Design made Al-Arabiya's studio in 2020.

This newsroom-as-set trend was not new for MBC, however, as it was already being used, while at its London studios, starting in the mid-1990's.

Besides, Al-Jazeera, in its original Arabic iteration, used newsroom-as-set trends for news updates; its main studio was isolated.

During the mid-2010's, Al-Jazeera's original version began using the newsroom as its main backdrop at Studio 5; Veech x Veech designed this one for Al-Jazeera's original version.

For its 25th anniversary, in 2021, Al-Jazeera's Studio 5 was renovated by Clickspring Design.

In its English-language version, Al-Jazeera has consistently used the newsroom-as-set trend from its primary Doha headquarters since its launch.

BBC Arabic Television used the newsroom-as-set trend physically from 2008 to 2013.

Sky News Arabia, like its original British version, has used the newsroom-as-set trend for most of the 2010's decade, which BDA designed.

The Abu Dhabi Media Centre, based at twofour54, was a testing ground for Sky News Arabia.

Dubai Media Inc. had its own Dubai News Centre at Dubai Media City, which BDI designed.

For the Dubai News Centre at Dubai Media City, it is one of the most sophisticated newsrooms in the Middle East, based on one for CNN.

Abu Dhabi TV used a newsroom-as-set trend being designed by British-based Shaun Moore Design during the mid-noughties.

Meanwhile, in Lebanon, Future News and Murr Television (MTV) used CNN-style newsroom-as-set trends, both starting 2008 and 2009.

For Future News, its newsroom-as-set trend, designed by Ali Wazani, was introduced in 2008.

Shigeru Takato designed the newsroom-as-set trend for Murr Television (MTV) in 2009.

On December 14, 2017, VTC broke from tradition by introducing a real and physical newsroom-as-set trend, which was the first of its kind in Vietnam.

Many Vietnamese television services, like VTV, have utilized traditional and enclosed news sets, either physical or virtual, for years.

This physical VTC newsroom set, inspired by global news broadcasters, like CNN and the BBC, lasted from December 2017 until its digital TV services ended in mid-January 2025.

Whether on ABC Sports, ABC News, CNN, ESPN or many other TV channels all over the world, the innovations by Roone Arledge take news and sports to a cinematic level.

Ever since its 1974 inception, NBC's NewsCentre philosophy (as being emphasized by Fred Harpman's cinematic design) has led to copycats, similar to WBBM-TV's studio with a bullpen backdrop.

In addition, since its 1974 inception, the NewsCentre (for NBC) has also divided North America's local television news scene into two camps.

For one camp, local television outlets in the United States that retrofitted studio spaces with faux-wood panels, extra monitors and a chroma key backdrop represented the old guard.

Local CBS television stations, many featuring the newsroom/bullpen as a regular studio backdrop, also represented the old guard (w/wo chroma key), evoking the gritty newspaper feel of the East Coast.

Conversely, advanced and forward-thinking television stations used the NewsCentre model under Fred Harpman, Lee Hanna, Earl Ubell and Jim Kitchell (for NBC), representing the new guard.

This NewsCentre model (for NBC) evoked the cinematic NASA-like nerve centres and has served as a universal blueprint for modern broadcast news in America.

Using its innovative hybrid newsroom-control room set, BCTV fuses the old and the new guards of the local/regional television news industry across North America, influencing CNN.

For Ray Peters, BCTV's innovative hybrid newsroom-control room studio, which he co-conceived with Cameron Bell and Ernie Rose, paralelled the open area for Today (NBC) under Dave Garroway.

Incidentally, Today (NBC) is the television program of which BCTV's Ray Peters was an avid viewer.

WMAQ-TV's NewsCentre, in a poetic twist of television history, traces back to Dave Garroway's old stomping grounds: the Merchandise Mart.

Rival WBBM-TV pioneered the news studio with a regular bullpen backdrop.

Upon its June 1, 1980 launch, CNN used its BCTV-inspired hybrid newsroom-control room studio set design, which serves as the DNA for 24-hour television news.

BCTV, incidentally, juxtaposed CBS (bullpen, Robert Wussler, Daniel Schorr, Bernard Shaw and Sam Zelman) with NBC (NewsCentre, Mary Alice Williams and Jim Kitchell).

Newscasts lasting a quarter-hour acted as radio-style headline services in television's early era.

Doubling the broadcast length for television newscasts, however, required building out a massive (and expansive) network of foreign and domestic correspondents.

Responding to this situation, deeper and investigative film packages about major events debuted.

Besides, in television's early years, news gathering relied on physical film.

Yet, television newscasts beyond the quarter-hour time limit imported twice as much raw footage from around the world.

Likewise, local television stations resisted losing local programs and advertising slots that lasted for a quarter-hour.

Complex syndication agreements and staggered broadcast feeds, due to expanded TV newscasts, were negotiated/offered to appease stations; this ensured that they could protect their bottom lines.

Plus, in television's early years, news anchors acted as solo readers or narrators.

For extended TV newscasts, however, anchors were managing editors/traffic controllers who introduce remote field reporters, conduct interviews and sew a patchwork of live and taped segments.

During the post-war era, WNBT/WRCA-TV/WNBC-TV (and NBC) had innovations in television.

Some of the notable innovations being made by WNBT/WRCA-TV/WNBC-TV (and NBC) during the post-WWII era include Today and NewsCentre.

These innovations being created by WNBT/WRCA-TV/WNBC-TV (and NBC) during this post-World War II era have since expanded across the United States and around the world.

The Ikegami HL-33 is the first compact hand-held video camera made in colour for ENG and the first broadcast camera to use 1-inch Plumbicon tubes.

Introduced in 1972 (or 1973, sources vary), the Ikegami HL-33 gave birth to ENG.

Before ENG, film was the primary medium for recording and broadcasting news footage.

With ENG, news footage was done on a smooth and fast-paced basis, using portable, lightweight and mobile equipment like video cameras and microwave systems.

Sony's Portapak is an innovative video camera using a 1/2-inch reel-to-reel format.

Contrasting to bulky studio cameras requiring crews and transport, Sony's Portapak is the first portable system to allow one person to shoot and record video easily outside studios.

Furthermore, in contrast to film or telecine, the Portapak has video played back on location.

Having been introduced in the late-1960's, the Sony Portapak was the catalyst for ENG, doubling as a precursor to the Ikegami HL-33.

Whereas the Sony Portapak is a monochrome video camera being designed for non-broadcast use, the Ikegami HL-33 is a colour video camera being made for the ENG process.

Plus, Ikegami introduced both the TK-301 and the TK-301A colour cameras, both of which resulted in huge improvements over other cameras.

Ikegami also introduced the DNS-11, one of the first portable, tapeless and non-linear camcorders.