A New Angle For ‘NBC Nightly News’…Studio 3B Changes
A New Angle For ‘NBC Nightly News’…Studio 3B Changes
We’ve had some questions on this lately, so here’s what I know about the changes on ‘Nightly News’.
In the top photo, we see the location of the news desk as it has been for a few years now…at the top end of Studio 3B. The red box in the top photo shows the studio door to help you get your bearings.
Last week, the desk and set was moved to the other end of the rectangular studio. Now, instead of being on an end wall, the desk has it’s back to the long wall and is in the back corner where the old ‘Rock Center’ set was. The bottom photo was taken from just in front of the studio door and the red box shows approximately where the desk is now. On the left In this photo, you can see where the desk was (covered).
From what I’ve heard and saw last night in the Ben Affleck piece, the midway point between the old desk location and the new location is now being used as an interview space. Enjoy and share! – Bobby Ellerbee
That makes sense! Now we just need to find out what was going on in 3A last week that forced MSNBC to originate everything from 3K or outside NYC. The only change I’ve noticed since they returned to 3A this week is that they don’t seem to be using the little “nook” set (to the right rear of the main desk position as viewed from the newsroom end of the studio) that had been used for Martin Bashir and more recently for Alex Wagner.
What are those white boxes up in the lighting grid? Are they lighting diffusers? Like china balls?