Granada Reports

I remember that starting about 5 1/2 years ago, on Century FM, just before I moved to The Netherlands. So its been there (possibly on and off) for a long time now!!!

Yeah I would say longer, been doing it since Scott and Glen switched to Century

Does anyone know if the trails they do at 5.30pm and 5.55pm are live or pre-recorded? I've always assumed they're pre-recorded and its possible they've just broadcast an outtake instead of the proper one (catch it on +1). Tony was in stitches at the Blackpool fracking story and Lucy almost went too.

I've always thought these things were live. In fact, there's a YouTube clip floating around somewhere of a trail which went wrong, where the presenters are looking at the camera, waiting for the cue, but they don't get it, so they just stare at the camera, waiting. At the end of the time for the trail, one of the presenters begin to, presumably, say 'Can I ask why we're appearing on the live monitor?' Or something to that effect.

Special titles tonight for the OB of the City presentation and parade - and far less excruciating to watch with Lucy Meacock paired with someone other than Tony Morris.

Roger Johnson also not as bad as I'd been led to believe on BBC North West.

They did the same last year for the Manchester United parade. The sports presenter did really well co-hosting the programme, would be interesting to see if that would translate to a regular edition. Lucy couldn't have made it more obvious she's a City fan .

She's not. She's a Liverpool fan. But all Liverpool fans will be happy to see United end the season trophy-less.

Saying that I think most other fans would be happy to see United trophy-less for a year and to see a smug smile wiped off Fergie's face (as seen on Sky Sports on Sunday - just before 6 and then every hour on SSN). I know I was ecstatic about city winning, and my team went down.

So what is Granada's weather department planning. Fred is not revealing anything until Friday. Could be the return of the roof-top shed, considering how wet this summer has been?

An excellent Granada Reports tonight, breaking from the standard format and focussing entirely on the Hillsborough story. Lucy Meacock presented from the vigil in Liverpool with Tony Morris also presenting from the studio in Manchester. Special titles and graphics were used to introduce various reports and the programme closed with 'You'll Never Walk Alone' over a moving montage of the photographs of the 96 who died.

They really pull out all the stops for stories like this - hopefully no further cutbacks to news will be made in the near future. The special programme has been uploaded to the Granada website.

I didn't watch but their extended specials are usually brilliant. That is why I really hope ITV backtrack on their plans to integrate the regional news into the national news. Some of the other regions might not be great but Granada Reports is brilliant when it wants to be (and also won a BAFTA a few years back) so it would be a shame for it to be relegated to an 'in other news' segment lasting about 15-20 minutes. That said, Granada Reports does seem to be one of the very few regional programmes ringfenced from any structural changes.

The only other changes on the other programmes includes the proposed reintroduction of a 30 minute Central News East programme, and a change in TT&B similar.