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LO
Londoner
I was under the impression that there will be no Five bulletins between New Year's Eve and 3 January
PR
producer
Sky News takes over the contract at 00:00 on 1/1/2005.
Until then, ITN is responsible. Between now and then, it will continue to provide short updates and that includes NY Eve.
There will be a final ITN update on 31st Jan but it will not be at midnight.
There will be no midnight update.
Sky will then be in control. They will not provide any output til 5:30 on Jan 3rd but will be on hand for newsflashes should any stories break.
MA
maximus
I see former ITN five news reporter Colin Campbell now does reports for the GMTV breakfast service.
WT
The World Today
martinDTanderson posted:
it will be whatever five want it to be. Sky News only produce the content, the music, logos etc are all down to five.


OH HOW VERY, VERY WRONG
FR
freddy
The World Today posted:
martinDTanderson posted:
it will be whatever five want it to be. Sky News only produce the content, the music, logos etc are all down to five.


OH HOW VERY, VERY WRONG

Errr.... No. How very, very correct actually. When ITN produced five News, they were responsible only for the content. As Martin says, the music, logos etc are down to the head honchos at five.
MD
mdtauk
five may however choose to adopt a Sky News branded style, if they wanted to capitalise on the reputation of Sky, but five have never adopted any form of ITN's branding in the past, so is it likely?
JC
Jack Carkdale
freddy posted:
The World Today posted:
martinDTanderson posted:
it will be whatever five want it to be. Sky News only produce the content, the music, logos etc are all down to five.


OH HOW VERY, VERY WRONG

Errr.... No. How very, very correct actually. When ITN produced five News, they were responsible only for the content. As Martin says, the music, logos etc are down to the head honchos at five.


Indeed.

Think about it, freddy...

It's IT N that provide the news for ITV1, but the on screen branding for the output is "IT V News" - the channel name, not the news provider's name. Thus proving that it is the channel/broadcaster (whatever) that decides on the "cosmetic" considerations (e.g. name, colour scheme, title sequence etc).

martinDTanderson posted:
five may however choose to adopt a Sky News branded style, if they wanted to capitalise on the reputation of Sky, but five have never adopted any form of ITN's branding in the past, so is it likely?


Indeed. So, freddy, if Five News does have a very "Sky" orientated look, it will be because Five want it that way, not because Sky have forced it upon Five.
MO
Moz
producer posted:
Sky News takes over the contract at 00:00 on 1/1/2005.
Until then, ITN is responsible. Between now and then, it will continue to provide short updates and that includes NY Eve.
There will be a final ITN update on 31st Jan but it will not be at midnight.
There will be no midnight update.
Sky will then be in control. They will not provide any output til 5:30 on Jan 3rd but will be on hand for newsflashes should any stories break.


How will five get away with not carrying *any* news for 2 whole days? Surely OfCom wouldn't allow that.
BE
benjy
Jack Carkdale posted:
freddy posted:
The World Today posted:
martinDTanderson posted:
it will be whatever five want it to be. Sky News only produce the content, the music, logos etc are all down to five.


OH HOW VERY, VERY WRONG

Errr.... No. How very, very correct actually. When ITN produced five News, they were responsible only for the content. As Martin says, the music, logos etc are down to the head honchos at five.


Indeed.

Think about it, freddy...

It's IT N that provide the news for ITV1, but the on screen branding for the output is "IT V News" - the channel name, not the news provider's name. Thus proving that it is the channel/broadcaster (whatever) that decides on the "cosmetic" considerations (e.g. name, colour scheme, title sequence etc).

martinDTanderson posted:
five may however choose to adopt a Sky News branded style, if they wanted to capitalise on the reputation of Sky, but five have never adopted any form of ITN's branding in the past, so is it likely?


Indeed. So, freddy, if Five News does have a very "Sky" orientated look, it will be because Five want it that way, not because Sky have forced it upon Five.


Wasn't Freddy the one who was agreeing with Martin? It was The World Today who seemed to have the wrong idea.
BR
Brekkie
Are the commercial channels required to have news bulletins this week then considering no full bulletin is on Five. I'd have expected them to go up till Thursday at least.
LO
Londoner
Brekkie Boy posted:
Are the commercial channels required to have news bulletins this week then considering no full bulletin is on Five. I'd have expected them to go up till Thursday at least.

They may have been given a special dispensation because of the change of news contractor.
LO
Londoner
Louisa Preston - formerly of Five News - was reporting for BBC London News at lunchtime.

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