Some Scottish MSP's are praising Julie for the way she moderated the debate and saying that fellow broadcasters can learn from her. That's probably the only time I will agree with the SNP mind you...
I assume News at Ten was on location too, though done as an OB rather than in any studio.
Re: graphics - agree, not a fan of the BBC's effort so far. Not seen much of ITV to be fair so can't comment. It's bloody UKIP though and the idiots voting for them not only messing up the long established five year old debating structure with their popularity but now also messing up the decades old colour scheme for elections.
I know nobody will be watching it but I'm finding The Agenda quite fresh and on point tonight. Question Time just seems a bit dated and 'same old same old' this week after the leaders debate.
Regarding the use of the ITV branding tonight, I think it shows how things have changed in the last five years with regards to how ITV has gained confidence in its brand. I was at MediaCityUK last weekend and the branding of The Studios was particularly impressive and a lot bigger than it looks on screen.
How big an operation do ITV have at MediaCity - obviously they've got Corrie and Granada Reports, but is there much beyond that. I know a few ITV shows are filmed there (like Countdown) but I'm assuming they lease studio space rather than have studios of their own.
Iirc ITV share their block with Salford University. I think they have 4 floors on that block.
I know nobody will be watching it but I'm finding The Agenda quite fresh and on point tonight. Question Time just seems a bit dated and 'same old same old' this week after the leaders debate.
It's a 6minute Newsnight panel stretched to 40 minutes
Regarding the use of the ITV branding tonight, I think it shows how things have changed in the last five years with regards to how ITV has gained confidence in its brand. I was at MediaCityUK last weekend and the branding of The Studios was particularly impressive and a lot bigger than it looks on screen.
How big an operation do ITV have at MediaCity - obviously they've got Corrie and Granada Reports, but is there much beyond that. I know a few ITV shows are filmed there (like Countdown) but I'm assuming they lease studio space rather than have studios of their own.
There's a few floors in an office block, as well as ITV Granada and ITV Studios Manchester various corporate functions are there I believe, ones which were previously at Granada. Isn't CITV based there as well?
As said Corrie isn't there it's over the bridge, I'm surprised none of the helicopter shots didn't zoom out from the Corrie set to do some line about 'real life drama taking place tonight' or something.
Sky News lost the feed of the debate at about 8:30 for about five seconds. Did any other outlet lose the feed?
On the return the sound was much "fuller" for want of a better description, and I suspect it's a clean feed as I haven't seen any graphics at all on this for the last 15 minutes or so.
Yes, there was a switching error in Salford, which meant the feed being made available to other broadcasters included ITV captions (despite being advertised as clean). This was corrected at around 2030, hence the short outage. Not ideal …