By Michael P. Hill
Even before the unprecedented delay to the 2020 Summer Olympics due to the coronavirus pandemic, NBC and HD Studio knew the set’s for Tokyo would take a different approach channeling a unique combination of environments while still incorporating a sense of global unity through sports that ended up taking on an even more fitting tone than usual.
“The day we got the call of ‘pencils down’ from NBC was coincidently the same day we delivered files to the fabricator,” said Bryan Higgason, HD Studio’s lead designer and founder, referring to when news began to circulate the Olympics wouldn’t take place in 2020 as planned.
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A new year means a new bureau for NBC News.
The NBCU News Group debuted its new state-of-the-art studios and Washington bureau Sunday with Meet the Press live from the network’s new D.C. headquarters in a different part of the District.
The new D.C. bureau spans six floors and 80,000 square feet with seven studios, and will be the home of programming across NBC News, MSNBC, and CNBC, in addition to NBC News Channel, Telemundo and Sky News’ Washington operations. WRC-TV NBC4, however, will continue to broadcast from the old bureau on Nebraska Ave.
“This is an outstanding new home for our Washington-based journalism and broadcasting,” NBCU News Group chairman
CNN’s annual celebration of people changing the world was reimagined for its latest installment, marking 14 years of the awards gala and broadcast.
“CNN Heroes” has called the American Museum of Natural History in New York home for many years, previously coming from the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles.
That setting, with the imposing blue whale model hanging overhead in the Hall of Ocean Life, provided a wide-open canvas for the event which would typically have hundreds of guests, a custom stage area and an LED display.
However, due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the event had to rethink many pieces of its broadcast for 2020. The latest edition relocated the broadcast to CNN’s headquarters at Hudson Yards, borrowing Studio 19X.