Sky Studio Design

Sky News

Technology Innovations

• Introduced LED lighting (ETC Source 4 S2 Daylight, Arri S30/S60/L7, Lightpanel Gemini)

  • Remote Studio Operations

  • Glass Box (initial design by Dave Evans)

  • Tardis studio move - Studio 6 (mixed VR & Real) Studio 22 (self-op), Galleries 21 & 22

  • Millbank various including major Refurb 2020 (Pandemic install single-handed)

  • Tardis Control Systen (2016-2023)

    • Live simultaneous control of 7 studios across 4 sites on 2 continents
    • Remote control but also local- control handed-over or overridable
    • largest ETC Eos Network in world (by geography)
    • Entirely macro and magic-sheet driven
    • Develioped and entirely Programmed by RB

Studio 21 - The Glass Box Flagship

Studio 6 - Real and Virtual Reality

Studio 22 - Self-Op

City Studios 2 & 3 - Shared-use space with CNBC-B

Millbank Main - Multi-use space

Sky Sport Racing

Sky Sports News

• Overall Supervisory & Support 2018-2023
• Competely replaced the original 1st generation LED Lights with new fixtures in 2018 with a complex series of overnight changes and reprogramming entirely without distrupting output.
• In 2020, during the height of Covid lockdowns and with heavy restrictions on movements between studios, completely redesigned the camera track overhead routes and new lighting poseitions; then (mostlya) single-handly derigged and rerigged all the existing lights - plus a set of additonal ones

Sky Studios Cafe

• A Fixed installation of trussing and lights in a public space (in-house coffee shop), originally intended for use for just one hour a week and so very lightly provisioned; this rapidly ended-up being used by up to 3 different productions a day - unil the novelty wore-off!

Sky Poker

Conversion of old Studio C (previously the Channel 5 News Studio) into a fixed studio. Used for a few years before they moved up north. Was when it opened the only studio Sky had that was still operating in SD (Standard Defintiion)

And also - design & support for >10 general-purpose studios.

• On arrival, he found there were at least 4 different and incompatible varieties of lighting control in use, with each studio having its unique setup, and the majority of operation was done manually with faders.

Within just a couple of years, this had been drastically simplified and unified into a single family (ETC Eos), with standardised show file structures, and the infrastructure migrated towards a standard methodolgy with local constraints. Over time, all operators were successfully encouraged to see the benefits of consistent and repeatable cue-based operation, along with the gradual introduction of new techonolgy such as LED and moving-lights to all users, all whilst raising the general standards of lighting faces - something critical as the cameras move evolved from SD to HD and then UHD within 10 years, whilst at the same time many of the lights in use were 20-30 years old (and still working perfectly and totally suitable for use with UHD when used sympathetically!)

Long term lobbying by Richard eventually led to the Refurbishment and Upgrading of all the original ETC consoles and Sensor dimmer racks

Gallery