IS
The BBC tried a serious news programme at breakfast too - the second incarnation of Breakfast Time, and that didn't last either
RD
My memories of Powerhouse was in a rather large building with people in the background, possibly in a cafeteria? I'm presuming this was in a significant Political building? I'm not sure it had the same theme tune as that however?
Indeed it's 6:25 on this ITN Christmas Tape. (Warning there's strong language elsewhere in the video)
Also, Powerhouse had rather a funky theme tune:
My memories of Powerhouse was in a rather large building with people in the background, possibly in a cafeteria? I'm presuming this was in a significant Political building? I'm not sure it had the same theme tune as that however?
Indeed it's 6:25 on this ITN Christmas Tape. (Warning there's strong language elsewhere in the video)
JU
thejules
Fast moving hard hitting news covering serious political and international stories could work.
Like the 20 minute World News sections on the C4 Daily
Don't like the fluffy human interest drivel on GMB & Breakfast
Like the 20 minute World News sections on the C4 Daily
Don't like the fluffy human interest drivel on GMB & Breakfast
DO
As people keep saying (and you keep ignoring), there's no audience for such a programme. There's hardly an audience for the fluffy human interest drivel. Radio has the breakfast market tied up as it's more convenient, and easier to consume while getting ready for / travelling to work.
Fast moving hard hitting news covering serious political and international stories could work.
Like the 20 minute World News sections on the C4 Daily
Don't like the fluffy human interest drivel on GMB & Breakfast
Like the 20 minute World News sections on the C4 Daily
Don't like the fluffy human interest drivel on GMB & Breakfast
As people keep saying (and you keep ignoring), there's no audience for such a programme. There's hardly an audience for the fluffy human interest drivel. Radio has the breakfast market tied up as it's more convenient, and easier to consume while getting ready for / travelling to work.
MA
My memories of Powerhouse was in a rather large building with people in the background, possibly in a cafeteria? I'm presuming this was in a significant Political building?
It looked to me like the hideously expensive atrium restaurant area inside the 4 Millbank broadcast building ?
http://www.4millbank.co.uk/images/features_r4_c6_s1.jpg
Also, Powerhouse had rather a funky theme tune:
My memories of Powerhouse was in a rather large building with people in the background, possibly in a cafeteria? I'm presuming this was in a significant Political building?
It looked to me like the hideously expensive atrium restaurant area inside the 4 Millbank broadcast building ?
http://www.4millbank.co.uk/images/features_r4_c6_s1.jpg
JU
thejules
So do any insiders have any views on whether Channel 4 might launch a new breakfast strand any day soon?
SK
"Insiders" are not people from whom you get "views" (at least they shouldn't be), they are the people from whom you get information... if they're indiscreet or if you're lucky.
Since no such plans are being talked about anywhere but here - and only then because they exist purely in your own over-active imagination - I suggest this discussion be brought to a close... and while you're at it, mods, please take a massive great scythe to the Bradby and "Bring back ITN" threads!
This is why people in the industry scoff when I tell them I sometimes post on TVF; they shouldn't, as it CAN be a wonderful resource and discussion venue.
But as things stand, it's been hijacked by the insistence of ONE MEMBER on expounding on their own opinion at absurd length (notice I didn't say the opinion was absurd - just its constant repetition). When you're at a dinner party, and the topic-of-conversation has moved on, but you insist on saying exactly the same thing a dozen more times about a subject that was last mentioned an hour ago, you should - at first - expect to be told to pipe down - and then, if you persist - asked to leave.
The mind boggles as to why that hasn't happened here, but I'm done posting any original contributions (including any inside information I might be permitted to share) until or unless it does. I'm hopeful others will follow my example.
Since no such plans are being talked about anywhere but here - and only then because they exist purely in your own over-active imagination - I suggest this discussion be brought to a close... and while you're at it, mods, please take a massive great scythe to the Bradby and "Bring back ITN" threads!
This is why people in the industry scoff when I tell them I sometimes post on TVF; they shouldn't, as it CAN be a wonderful resource and discussion venue.
But as things stand, it's been hijacked by the insistence of ONE MEMBER on expounding on their own opinion at absurd length (notice I didn't say the opinion was absurd - just its constant repetition). When you're at a dinner party, and the topic-of-conversation has moved on, but you insist on saying exactly the same thing a dozen more times about a subject that was last mentioned an hour ago, you should - at first - expect to be told to pipe down - and then, if you persist - asked to leave.
The mind boggles as to why that hasn't happened here, but I'm done posting any original contributions (including any inside information I might be permitted to share) until or unless it does. I'm hopeful others will follow my example.
NG
My memories of Powerhouse was in a rather large building with people in the background, possibly in a cafeteria? I'm presuming this was in a significant Political building?
It looked to me like the hideously expensive atrium restaurant area inside the 4 Millbank broadcast building ?
http://www.4millbank.co.uk/images/features_r4_c6_s1.jpg
Yep - Powerhouse came from The Atrium at No. 4 Millbank, which is the building that most UK broadcasters are based in in Westminster (BBC, ITN, Sky I think etc.)
noggin
Founding member
Also, Powerhouse had rather a funky theme tune:
My memories of Powerhouse was in a rather large building with people in the background, possibly in a cafeteria? I'm presuming this was in a significant Political building?
It looked to me like the hideously expensive atrium restaurant area inside the 4 Millbank broadcast building ?
http://www.4millbank.co.uk/images/features_r4_c6_s1.jpg
Yep - Powerhouse came from The Atrium at No. 4 Millbank, which is the building that most UK broadcasters are based in in Westminster (BBC, ITN, Sky I think etc.)
NG
Yep - and it continued for pretty much the entire incarnation of Breakfast News as well.
It wasn't until "Breakfast" arrived that things started really relaxing, and even then it took a while.
noggin
Founding member
The BBC tried a serious news programme at breakfast too - the second incarnation of Breakfast Time, and that didn't last either
It wasn't until "Breakfast" arrived that things started really relaxing, and even then it took a while.
JA
I seem to remember reading part of the reason the Channel 4 Daily was axed was because Channel 4 were about to start selling their own advertising and they felt it wouldn't be able to pay for itself, so they replaced it with something more populist. I could be wrong though!
And on that note, the first ever Channel 4-sold ad break (and last ITV regional-sold one for that matter) was during a special new year edition of the Big Breakfast- and they actually made a point of it, putting out a spoof ad break, consisting of spoof badly made 70s cinema adverts, followed by Chris and Gaby acting concerned for the channel's future. Starts at around 4:10 into this video:
And on that note, the first ever Channel 4-sold ad break (and last ITV regional-sold one for that matter) was during a special new year edition of the Big Breakfast- and they actually made a point of it, putting out a spoof ad break, consisting of spoof badly made 70s cinema adverts, followed by Chris and Gaby acting concerned for the channel's future. Starts at around 4:10 into this video:
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