Telecinco creates the "most advanced news set in Spain": 210 m2 of screens, Spidercam, AI...

Carlos Franganillo will begin the new stage of the News on the night of Monday, January 15 Telecinco from a new set with a great effort in advanced broadcast technology chosen by the engineering team of Mediaset to establish "a new audiovisual approach to the informative story", thus forming what has not hesitated to be called the "most advanced set of all the channels in the country".

The new Telecinco News will revolve around a central axis that is the backbone of the entire informative story: the Facts. In each of the editions, the philosophy will be to reflect the reality of what is happening in the most plural way possible, so that it is the viewers who, with all the data, can forge their own opinion. It will be committed to offering a contrasted and explanatory narration. A "calm, analytical and contextualized" story that serves as a reference for viewers, with whom it is intended to generate a bond of trust based on the reliability and veracity of their news. In this sense, the Advanced technological tools on set they will not constitute an end, but A medium to tell stories more effectively, capture viewers' attention, broaden their perspectives, and help them contextualize and understand the facts better.

Various multidisciplinary teams from the areas of engineering, technical, production, scenography and lighting of Mediaset Spain have been traveling and gathering information for months in countries such as France, United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Croatia, United States and Canada to soak up the Innovations that incorporate the most cutting-edge television studios in the world and implement them to the new sets of Informativos Telecinco. The result of this work has been the coordinated integration of a series of technological elements that will always be at the service of information.

In the same way, following the model extended in RTVE in recent years, Telecinco, "when current events require it", will react with immediacy and will go outside to report live news wherever it occurs. In events of special relevance, national or international; in historical events and in each electoral appointment that is on the horizon, Informativos Telecinco will be in situ, offering extensive and elaborate coverage that will provide extra informative value to viewers.

210 square meters of screen with solutions Alfalite

The LED screens of the new Mediaset set, with a project to integrate Average Data, offer a 175° viewing angle and add up to a total of 210 square meters. "For the first time on a set", Informativos Telecinco will feature three 2.5 x 1.5m vertical hanging screens, which incorporate a motorized lifting mechanism to raise and lower them from the ceiling to the ground according to the needs of the story. Being in Vertical format, these screens also allow the projection without any distortion of images recorded with mobile phones, published on social networks, etc., which generate so much content today, and so much is modifying the aspect ratio with which audiovisual content is consumed.

Another of the central elements of the Informativos Telecinco set is a Huge 31 linear meter immersive curved screen. This screen has the ability to process up to three 8K video signals or 12 4K video signals up to 12-bit and over 50 million pixels, which supports the recreation of Augmented reality, extended reality and virtual reality, and allows the projection in high definition of images, graphics and infographics.

At the same time, the work of Mediaset Spain's Scenography department has been aimed at integrating technological elements, cameras and furniture into the physical space of the set in the most efficient way: the large curved screen, the three motorised vertical screens, the Four sets through which the presenters move and the presenters' table, whose design to achieve the effect of being held in suspension has been very complex.

All the scenery is made in the Corporate Blue Rangewith Translucent materials to give the feeling of lightness, depth and luminosity and is supported by Scenographic digital LEDs that allow you to play with different textures and movements. The floor is made of a new high-gloss and resistant material that provides a striking "mirror effect".

Refurbished cameras, Spidercam system, PTZs and LED lighting

Telecinco's new news set is committed to combining different cameras to combine efficiency in production and spectacularity. According to the engineering team, it will be the first studio globally to combine a visual solution composed of a Mobile camera on a 15-meter curved rail integrated into the ground, with a Four-Wire Crossover Suspended Mini Camera (Spidercam) of the type used in football stadiums, "an element never before used on a set in Spain".

This dual-camera solution will offer viewers immersive and dynamic live perspectives that create a unique and impactful effect and also provides the possibility to integrate the image into virtual reality and augmented reality effects. The Presenter Still Shots, on the other hand, will be offered by Four robotic fixed cameras "state-of-the-art" arranged in Mobile pedestals.

Mediaset España has also confirmed that the light of the new set of Informativos Telecinco is based on State-of-the-art LEDs with which different lighting will be applied to the editions that are broadcast during the day and night, with the aim of providing specific environments for each one and giving them their own personality.

AI, tuning, header and graphic line

The Telecinco News set will be "the first in Spain" to integrate Artificial Intelligence Software that use predictive algorithms to identify the presenter's location, modeling them as a three-dimensional mesh to automatically track their position on their bodies, so that the production team can maintain the frame regardless of the presenter's movement. In this way, Telecinco is committed to automation processes based on AI, becoming "the Europe's leading company in acquiring one of these advanced Artificial Intelligence programs applied to broadcasting, recently launched on the market".

On the other hand, the Telecinco News Tune it is renewed. Mediaset España has commissioned the author of the original piece to create a new re-edited and modernised version of this tune, but which maintains the notes and the emblematic rhythm of the one that has been sounding in the headlines and summaries all these years. In addition, the logo of Informativos Telecinco, its signs and its graphic line and its headers, which will be different depending on the edition, have also undergone a major renovation.

The edition of Telecinco News from 9:00 p.m. (Monday to Friday), offered from this renovated set, will be presented by Carlos Franganillo, the channel's big signing from RTVE. At the helm of Informativos Telecinco at 3:00 p.m. (Monday-Friday) will be Ángeles Blanco with Isabel Jiménez. In addition, Ángeles Blanco will be in charge of being on set at 9:00 p.m. when Carlos Franganillo is off set. David Cantero, José Ribagorda and Leticia Iglesias will present Informativos Telecinco Fin de Semana, while the morning edition will feature Laila Jiménez and Arancha Morales.

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