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Award Winning Granada News - Your Views

Lucy Meacock on ITV News (Pg 39) (December 2004)

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TA
tv addict
tv addict posted:
Small point but Granada are using a new reporter called Kate Giffard - only been on at weekends so far but she is a cracker!!!


And tonight on GR.
My evening has been brightened up already.
BP
Bob Paisley
tv addict posted:
Small point but Granada are using a new reporter called Kate Giffard - only been on at weekends so far but she is a cracker!!!


Define 'cracker'

She's a particularly talented and insightful reporter - with great journalistic skills?

Or she's aesthetically pleasing?
TA
tv addict
Bob Paisley posted:
tv addict posted:
Small point but Granada are using a new reporter called Kate Giffard - only been on at weekends so far but she is a cracker!!!


Define 'cracker'

She's a particularly talented and insightful reporter - with great journalistic skills?

Or she's aesthetically pleasing?


Actually BOTH.
And it's important that someone both looks good on camera AS WELL as being a good journalist.
TA
tv addict
Granada Reports had a stunt tonight where they are putting a bottle of Granada Reports air up for auction on EBay.
It's already reached 400-pounds!
DJ
DJ Dave
here is the link:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ITV-Granada-Studio-2-Air_W0QQitemZ4766132924QQcategoryZ90733QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
TA
tv addict
Plus when the item was on you got to see behind the scenes in Studio 2. Very interesting.
I had a look on Ebay this morning and it's now reached 450 pounds!
NW
nwtv2003
It's £556.00 now! And there's over a week to go.....Laughing

Good idea, but it would have been better if it was an actual piece of the set or one of the old set's or something, not a bottle with a dodgy picture on top. Though it was interesting when they dug out the old clips and it makes you realise what has been produced at Granada for almost 50 years now.
TA
tv addict
Granada Reports say the auction for the bottle of air is now the second most visited site on Ebay!!!
Looks like they've found at great marketing tool
TA
tv addict
And I've just looked on Ebay tonight and the Bottled Air is now over 900 pounds!!
Wonder what charity it will go to.
NW
nwtv2003
The ITV50 part of Granada Reports tonight was certainately worth a watch, as it had a look back of the titles/theme tunes to Granada Reports and Granada Tonight, including a 1970's version I haven't heard before. The first CGI titles from 1986 when Granada Reports relocated to the Albert Dock, and the original 1990 Granada Tonight titles, which according to Paul Crone were probably nicked from Dallas or Dynasty.

They also looked at Presenters and Reporters at their finest moments, such as Paul Crone in 1987, but the best had to be at the end, when they showed a clip of Granada Tonight from 1992 in the Lucy Meacock/John Huntley era when they tapped the keys into the keyboard to cross over to a Live link, which you could tell was very fake.

And Studio 2 Air appears to be reaching £1000, with Tony Morris almost destrorying it in the Studio.
TA
tv addict
nwtv2003 posted:
The ITV50 part of Granada Reports tonight was certainately worth a watch, as it had a look back of the titles/theme tunes to Granada Reports and Granada Tonight, including a 1970's version I haven't heard before. The first CGI titles from 1986 when Granada Reports relocated to the Albert Dock, and the original 1990 Granada Tonight titles, which according to Paul Crone were probably nicked from Dallas or Dynasty.

They also looked at Presenters and Reporters at their finest moments, such as Paul Crone in 1987, but the best had to be at the end, when they showed a clip of Granada Tonight from 1992 in the Lucy Meacock/John Huntley era when they tapped the keys into the keyboard to cross over to a Live link, which you could tell was very fake.


Did anybody manage to capture it?
BR
Brekkie
nwtv2003 posted:
They also looked at Presenters and Reporters at their finest moments, such as Paul Crone in 1987, but the best had to be at the end, when they showed a clip of Granada Tonight from 1992 in the Lucy Meacock/John Huntley era when they tapped the keys into the keyboard to cross over to a Live link, which you could tell was very fake.


Caught that briefly yesterday - it was so funny - though I'm sure none of us batted an eye-lid in the days they actually did it!

Still find the forced banter between Tony and Lucy excruciating to watch though!

Whatever happened to Tony Barnes (think that's right!). I remember him leaving then cropping up on something like Five News once or twice before completly disapearing!

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