Who was the presenter on GMTV Grampian? Kirsteen O'Sullivan (ex-GMTV Northern Ireland newsreader) was the host for GMTV Scotland (Central). She also did an in-vision weather forecast.
Looked great but wonder how long they will keep it like that for??
More to the point, I wonder how much longer GMTV will bother having regional news inserts
at all
?
A few years ago when GMTV scrapped taking all the sub-regional variants of ITVplc regions, in favour of pan-regional only, I wondered if it was the beginning of a trend that would ultimately end with no regions during GMTV at all?
I can't imagine that the various regions themselves really appreciate having to have staff in that early in the morning, considering that it's only to produce three poxy little bulletins that are only - what - 2-3mins long or something, and then not do another bulletin until after 11am. They'd probably rather not have any staff in the building until at least, say, 8:30am or something.
Given that the general Ofcom trend has seemingly been to gradually relieve "channel 3" of its regional news obligations, I'm fairly sure that the GMTV inserts will be the next casualty.
And, of course, the "proper" broadcasters for NI and most of Scotland (i.e. UTV and STV) have
already
been relieved their GMTV obligations. Obviously the only reason that GMTV have had to substitute them with equivalent inserts from a random other news-provider is because they've still got all the ITVplc-area inserts, and couldn't very well have Scottish and Irish viewers seeing just a holding caption during those timeslots.
I'm convinced that regional bits within GMTV will be on-the-way-out, in the fairly near future.
Does anyone have any captures of what STV or UTV's GMTV bulletins look like? Do they look like GMTV News?
You can see the latest GMTV News NI bulletin at www.macmillanmedia.co.uk (go to the bottom of the page).
Just had a quick look round umpteen pages of that site. Plenty of info
about
the GMTV NI (& Scotland) bulletins, but I see no obvious link to actually
watch
them?
When I click on the "Broadcast Centre" link, I get a "the webpage cannot be found" type of page.
Does anyone have any captures of what STV or UTV's GMTV bulletins look like? Do they look like GMTV News?
You can see the latest GMTV News NI bulletin at www.macmillanmedia.co.uk (go to the bottom of the page).
Just had a quick look round umpteen pages of that site. Plenty of info
about
the GMTV NI (& Scotland) bulletins, but I see no obvious link to actually
watch
them?
When I click on the "Broadcast Centre" link, I get a "the webpage cannot be found" type of page.
So you missed that huge video player at the bottom of the screen ?
I can't imagine that the various regions themselves really appreciate having to have staff in that early in the morning, considering that it's only to produce three poxy little bulletins that are only - what - 2-3mins long or something, and then not do another bulletin until after 11am. They'd probably rather not have any staff in the building until at least, say, 8:30am or something.
GMTV do pay the production companies (ITV or Macmillian) for the service.
I think your estimate of 2 and a half hours preparing for a bigish bulletin like the 1100 is far too low. The items in the breakfast slots will go towards the 1100
