Welcome to The Pres Desk, your new destination for fast, visual news covering the world of television presentation.
While plenty of outlets cover celebrity gossip, programme plots, and streaming ratings, this site is built purely for the craft of on-air broadcast design. We cover the elements that define a channel’s identity: idents, channel packaging, continuity announcements, newsroom sets, and on-screen graphics.
What We Cover
Broadcast design moves fast, and The Pres Desk reports on the changes as they appear on screen:
- New Idents & Rebrands: First-look visual coverage of new on-air identities, channel rebrands, seasonal packages, and promotional graphics across major networks.
- Sets & News Studios: Updates on physical studio builds, newsroom redesigns, video walls, and on-screen graphics straps.
- Continuity & Live Junctions: Notable voiceovers, handover junctions, special announcements, and unexpected technical breakdown captions.
- Channel Launches & Carriage: Straightforward updates on new channel rollouts, closures, Freeview multiplex shifts, and satellite updates.
Connected to TV Live
The Pres Desk acts as the dedicated, live-updating news arm alongside the deep broadcast history preserved at TV Live. While the main archive documents television presentation heritage from decades past, The Pres Desk tracks the looks and sounds debuting right now.
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