No Anglia News on GMTV

Just a small note of interest for anyone thats umm interested.

Watching GMTV at 6.35 today and there was no Anglia News at all. We were treated to the 2 minute looping rendition of the GMTV theme with a nice big logo. I don't know whether the Anglia news team got in time or whether there was any techy hitches but all was fine for the 7:05 bulletin.

There was no local news on HTV West either at that time. I love that music, far better than the current remix!

GMTV didn't opt out (some if not all of) the regions..... we were most certainly there and doing the bulletin - it's just nobody saw it!

No doubt the viewership didn't dip then.

Same thing happened here at ITV WALES. The theme tune and logo came on our screens until it went back to the Newshour.
I love that theme tune, it seems to be a more jazzier version of the 1993 theme.
Anyone capture it?

That's interesting - I thought the regions opted themselves out? Although I guess that the difference between "GMTV" and whatever the former LNN playout operation is known as now is more or less semantics these days.

Did anyone manage to capture it?

I do hope it was capturefied by someone. I do like the GMTV theme even if the original titles used to scare me.

I don't think any of the ITV PLC Regions opt-out these days do they? I think all of the transmitters are fed directly from the North or South Playout centres, with the individual studio feeds fed to either of these playout centres to be cut in circuit. This may not be the case for all sub-regions (though it is for Meridian and Anglia I believe) - but GMTV don't have news subregions (i.e. there is a single Anglia bulletin for East and West in GMTV rather than two bulletins for the two sub regions)

It was nowt special. Just a giant GMTV logo with the 2 minute theme looping. Best thing to do is make your own GMTV logo and zoom it then go to MHP Private Parts as I seem to recall there is the 2 minute looping version of their theme and also an extended 4 minute version which just sounds a bit more "newsy"