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A former member
HTV have just announced their yearly statement!
Read it online here
http://www.htvwales.com/publicstatement/
or download it as a pdf here
http://www.htvwales.com/publicstatement/HTV%20Annual%20Statement%202003-4.pdf
Do any other regions produce something similar?
Read it online here
http://www.htvwales.com/publicstatement/
or download it as a pdf here
http://www.htvwales.com/publicstatement/HTV%20Annual%20Statement%202003-4.pdf
Do any other regions produce something similar?
DV
Looking at that first link...
http://www.htvwales.com/publicstatement/images/wales/xjonathanlucy.jpg
Doesn't that look like the ITV News backdrop?
http://www.htvwales.com/publicstatement/images/wales/xjonathanlucy.jpg
Doesn't that look like the ITV News backdrop?
:-(
Well wasnt it the case that HTV were working in conjunction with ITV News to create a corporate look?
I think it got as far as HTV West before everyone else gave up on it!
It may rear it's head again within the next 12 months though
A former member
Lee Stanley posted:
Looking at that first link...
http://www.htvwales.com/publicstatement/images/wales/xjonathanlucy.jpg
Doesn't that look like the ITV News backdrop?
http://www.htvwales.com/publicstatement/images/wales/xjonathanlucy.jpg
Doesn't that look like the ITV News backdrop?
Well wasnt it the case that HTV were working in conjunction with ITV News to create a corporate look?
I think it got as far as HTV West before everyone else gave up on it!
It may rear it's head again within the next 12 months though
TV
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38670000/jpg/_38670419_big_cat5_map300.jpg
DAY 25
This is just a saga now.
It seems even *I* was optimistic in believing it was a labrador, since experts returning the DNA test on the whippet [deceased] believe he may have been.. a badger
After the worldwide coverage, police marksmen guarding Carmarthenshire, and helicopters. Badger. Wales Today said that DNA tests failed to find any trace of big cat hair in the whippet, just another dog and a badger.
The Assembly were more or less laughing at the whole thing, and the police say that next time a more "proportionate" amount of money and resources will be spent on a response to a "big cat sighting".
Some still believe it was a big cat as there are loads of things out in the countryside, and a badger couldn't have killed the dog.. Hmm.
And Jamie was lying again about that really being Cardiff Bay behind him. Tut tut.
DAY 25
This is just a saga now.
It seems even *I* was optimistic in believing it was a labrador, since experts returning the DNA test on the whippet [deceased] believe he may have been.. a badger
After the worldwide coverage, police marksmen guarding Carmarthenshire, and helicopters. Badger. Wales Today said that DNA tests failed to find any trace of big cat hair in the whippet, just another dog and a badger.
The Assembly were more or less laughing at the whole thing, and the police say that next time a more "proportionate" amount of money and resources will be spent on a response to a "big cat sighting".
Some still believe it was a big cat as there are loads of things out in the countryside, and a badger couldn't have killed the dog.. Hmm.
And Jamie was lying again about that really being Cardiff Bay behind him. Tut tut.
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ohwhatanight
Founding member
Are HTV the only itv company to allow a PDF download of their annual statement?
TV
New newsreader? Hmm... *thinks*
You got a description with that? I don't remember a new newsreader to be honest.
Ruth did the weather yesterday, and Justina's on GMTV/morning today [hooray!
No bloody Andrew Jones]. He's down to 3 days a week now, with Sally doing the other two. Justina's probably for a bit of a change today. I guess she's returning to work after the baby [whatever the outcome]. She, James and Emma share it almost equally I'd say, when the 3 of them are there. Charlie hardly gets a look in!
You got a description with that? I don't remember a new newsreader to be honest.
Ruth did the weather yesterday, and Justina's on GMTV/morning today [hooray!
No bloody Andrew Jones]. He's down to 3 days a week now, with Sally doing the other two. Justina's probably for a bit of a change today. I guess she's returning to work after the baby [whatever the outcome]. She, James and Emma share it almost equally I'd say, when the 3 of them are there. Charlie hardly gets a look in!
:-(
A former member
When I watch the HTV morning bulletins, I think "God, I could do that, and I would smile a bit more"
Maybe one day
Maybe one day
WH
Whataday
Founding member
From the Western Mail:
HTV weather and news presenter Ruth Wignall returned to work last night five weeks after losing her first child. Today she speaks to Jenny Rees about the most traumatic experience of her life KNOWING that her unborn child was a girl made it all the harder to lose her.
Ruth Wignall and her husband Jonathan found out by accident that the baby they had lost four and a half months into the pregnancy would perhaps one day have worn pigtails with ribbons.
The HTV weather and news presenter said that knowing the sex made it all the more real and upsetting.
Ruth, 27, had the added trauma of going through labour. "I didn't see anything because I didn't want to know, but we accidentally found out it was a girl.
"Up to that point it hadn't been very real, but I'm glad I didn't see anything because in a way I would always have had that picture in my head, whereas now I will always have the image of a little girl with pigtails."
Ruth found out she was pregnant when she returned from honeymoon last summer, but on a routine checkup five weeks ago she discovered she had lost her baby.
Last night was her first shift back at work, something she has been dreading, but she knows it will help her get her life back to normal.
"Once you've got the "Hi, how are you?" out of the way it's not so bad, but there have been times when I'm in floods of tears. I've had people in supermarkets asking me about it, which is a bit upsetting, but it's nice to know people are thinking about me.
"Personally I don't want to spend the rest of my life pining for this. You pick yourself up and carry on."
But carrying on means coming to terms with what has happened.
"We were all so excited and looking forward to everything, that's why it came as such a big shock. I took it for granted that everything was going to be fantastic in May when the baby was due, and having that taken away is hard. That's a bitter pill to swallow.
"I don't know what's worse, not to have it, or have it taken away from you. Half of me just wants to get back and pick up where I left off, but the other half says things will never be quite the same again.
"I get very choked when I talk to
people sometimes and it's hard to act as if everything is OK, but you've got to be strong. There are so many things going on in the world and people have their own traumas - on the grand scheme of things this is nothing.
"I'm not losing something I had, because in a way I never had it. I'm trying to have a practical look on it and keep positive.
" But some days I get up in the morning and get really angry and upset by the whole unfairness and begrudge everyone a bit of happiness. I see people pushing prams or adverts for nappies on TV and that is hard."
Known best as the bubbly presenter on HTV's The Ferret, Grass Roots, and most recently the weather and news, Ruth has been doing her best to keep smiling, but it has taken its toll. "A friend was a couple of weeks further along than me in her preg-nancy and she and I have been friends for years, but I can't phone her at the moment. It's terrible, but part of me thinks why did it have to happen to me? How come she is OK? I'm the one who drew the short straw and it seems so unfair.
"But I think if you let yourself go down that route you just end up destroying your whole life." Ruth and Jonathan waited until the 12-week stage before telling most people they were expecting their first child.
"Most people breathe a sigh of relief then, you don't think for one minute there will be a problem. All the literature tells you that after 12 weeks everything will be fine. Nowhere in the books does it say how to cope if the worst should happen, and of course it did.
"When you are pregnant there is a huge support network of doctors and midwives, and all of a sudden you're not pregnant and that support network goes. "
Ruth has been quite philosophical about her miscarriage, but says that searching for reasons can make things worse.
"We were only just married and I looked for reasons to explain why it happened - maybe we had too much too soon, maybe someone was telling us to slow down and get used to being just the two of us. But the more you look for reasons you just get yourself tied up."
Ruth says she will always be nervous about falling pregnant again, but this experience - the worst of her life - has made her all the more determined to try again.
"Whether it's overnight or takes years and years, Jonathan and I realised it's right for us and what we both wanted."
For now, though, the couple are coping day by day, but as the baby was due in May, until then they will always be thinking about what should have been.
"I feel angry that this little person didn't even have a chance.
"We've just bought a house in Gower and one of the spare rooms was earmarked for the nursery, but I've shut the door on that room for now - perhaps the timing just wasn't meant to be."
HTV weather and news presenter Ruth Wignall returned to work last night five weeks after losing her first child. Today she speaks to Jenny Rees about the most traumatic experience of her life KNOWING that her unborn child was a girl made it all the harder to lose her.
Ruth Wignall and her husband Jonathan found out by accident that the baby they had lost four and a half months into the pregnancy would perhaps one day have worn pigtails with ribbons.
The HTV weather and news presenter said that knowing the sex made it all the more real and upsetting.
Ruth, 27, had the added trauma of going through labour. "I didn't see anything because I didn't want to know, but we accidentally found out it was a girl.
"Up to that point it hadn't been very real, but I'm glad I didn't see anything because in a way I would always have had that picture in my head, whereas now I will always have the image of a little girl with pigtails."
Ruth found out she was pregnant when she returned from honeymoon last summer, but on a routine checkup five weeks ago she discovered she had lost her baby.
Last night was her first shift back at work, something she has been dreading, but she knows it will help her get her life back to normal.
"Once you've got the "Hi, how are you?" out of the way it's not so bad, but there have been times when I'm in floods of tears. I've had people in supermarkets asking me about it, which is a bit upsetting, but it's nice to know people are thinking about me.
"Personally I don't want to spend the rest of my life pining for this. You pick yourself up and carry on."
But carrying on means coming to terms with what has happened.
"We were all so excited and looking forward to everything, that's why it came as such a big shock. I took it for granted that everything was going to be fantastic in May when the baby was due, and having that taken away is hard. That's a bitter pill to swallow.
"I don't know what's worse, not to have it, or have it taken away from you. Half of me just wants to get back and pick up where I left off, but the other half says things will never be quite the same again.
"I get very choked when I talk to
people sometimes and it's hard to act as if everything is OK, but you've got to be strong. There are so many things going on in the world and people have their own traumas - on the grand scheme of things this is nothing.
"I'm not losing something I had, because in a way I never had it. I'm trying to have a practical look on it and keep positive.
" But some days I get up in the morning and get really angry and upset by the whole unfairness and begrudge everyone a bit of happiness. I see people pushing prams or adverts for nappies on TV and that is hard."
Known best as the bubbly presenter on HTV's The Ferret, Grass Roots, and most recently the weather and news, Ruth has been doing her best to keep smiling, but it has taken its toll. "A friend was a couple of weeks further along than me in her preg-nancy and she and I have been friends for years, but I can't phone her at the moment. It's terrible, but part of me thinks why did it have to happen to me? How come she is OK? I'm the one who drew the short straw and it seems so unfair.
"But I think if you let yourself go down that route you just end up destroying your whole life." Ruth and Jonathan waited until the 12-week stage before telling most people they were expecting their first child.
"Most people breathe a sigh of relief then, you don't think for one minute there will be a problem. All the literature tells you that after 12 weeks everything will be fine. Nowhere in the books does it say how to cope if the worst should happen, and of course it did.
"When you are pregnant there is a huge support network of doctors and midwives, and all of a sudden you're not pregnant and that support network goes. "
Ruth has been quite philosophical about her miscarriage, but says that searching for reasons can make things worse.
"We were only just married and I looked for reasons to explain why it happened - maybe we had too much too soon, maybe someone was telling us to slow down and get used to being just the two of us. But the more you look for reasons you just get yourself tied up."
Ruth says she will always be nervous about falling pregnant again, but this experience - the worst of her life - has made her all the more determined to try again.
"Whether it's overnight or takes years and years, Jonathan and I realised it's right for us and what we both wanted."
For now, though, the couple are coping day by day, but as the baby was due in May, until then they will always be thinking about what should have been.
"I feel angry that this little person didn't even have a chance.
"We've just bought a house in Gower and one of the spare rooms was earmarked for the nursery, but I've shut the door on that room for now - perhaps the timing just wasn't meant to be."
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ohwhatanight
Founding member
Best wishes to Ruth and Jonathan (hopefully not Hill!) for the future!