New
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Moscow Bureau opens
The
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ has opened a new Bureau in Moscow.
With
new, state of the art technology, the bureau is the largest international
broadcast operation in Russia and brings together for the first
time journalists and production staff from each of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s different
news operations.
The
bureau, which began operating this week, is the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s largest news
operation in the world, outside of the UK.
Almost
100 staff from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ newsgathering, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ monitoring and the World Service's
Russian, Central Asian and Caucasian services will work in the joint
newsroom.
The
new bureau has additional broadcasting facilities, with seven radio
studios and a television studio as well as indoor and outdoor live
broadcast points.
The
radio studios will be able to accommodate three guests at a time
and up to four studios can broadcast to the UK simultaneously.
And
it will make use of cutting edge fibre optic cables, with a permanent
signal to transmit material back to Television Centre in London.
Kevin
Bishop, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Moscow Bureau Editor, said: "I'm delighted the
new ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Moscow Bureau has now opened.
"We
aim to provide an integrated ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ bureau, to share specialist knowledge
and expertise, and make best use of our resources and technology."
Elizabeth
Robson, Head of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Russian Service, said: "The new Moscow
Bureau gives World Service journalists the chance to use sophisticated
modern equipment to satisfy the demand for high quality content
about Russia across a range of outlets in dozens of languages."
Peter
Robertson, Managing Editor, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Monitoring, said: "Working
alongside the World Service and Newsgathering will really sharpen
our news focus and, in turn, we can provide our colleagues with
a wide-range of information and sources not previously easily accessible."
All the
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s digital services are now available on ,
the new free-to-view digital terrestrial television service, as well
as on satellite and cable.
Freeview
offers the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s eight television channels as well as 11 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ radio
networks.
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