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It changed a lot. As one of the few regular viewers, the step change was jarring.
We'd gone from Carol Barnes in a cupboard at ITN, an unseen continuity announcer (usually Bill Bingham) at Channel Four, and a presenter at Business Daily (a quick 'hit' version of the half hourly live lunchtime financial programme) who were the only live content during the show. Everything else was either pre-recorded the day before transmission (arts slot Box Office and the consumer show Streewise) or special quick versions of Countdown and cartoon archive fillers.
Come the relaunch, pretty much everything that had been pre-records were now live from desks within the same studio - memory wants me to type the studio at the top of the Trocadero in Piccadilly Circus - and instead of linked by Bill Bingham at Channel Four, was now linked in vision by the newsreader of that day.
Usually, it was Dermot Murgnerhan, who was already a known face on the previous incarnation of Channel Four Daily doing the Business Daily updates.
Changing tack slightly, I wonder if we could discuss The Channel Four Daily?
It's always been one of those programmes shrouded in mystery - probably very few people watched it at the time and even fewer recorded it to VHS. As a result, there is very little in the way of footage online.
I know that it launched with Carol Barnes at the helm in 1989 and that it was effectively in segments linked together at ITN. I'd quite like to know more about the relaunch that happened in April 1990. It is alluded to on Wikipedia but there isn't much in the way of detail. Apart from dropping a few segments, how did it change exactly? Did the presenters change? Did it move to a more traditional, fluid breakfast news programme rather than random segments linked together. Was it still presented from ITN? And what happened to it in the years between 1990 and its demise in September 1992? Did it stay relatively stable in terms of production or were further changes made?
Would love to know more about it if anyone can remember.
It's always been one of those programmes shrouded in mystery - probably very few people watched it at the time and even fewer recorded it to VHS. As a result, there is very little in the way of footage online.
I know that it launched with Carol Barnes at the helm in 1989 and that it was effectively in segments linked together at ITN. I'd quite like to know more about the relaunch that happened in April 1990. It is alluded to on Wikipedia but there isn't much in the way of detail. Apart from dropping a few segments, how did it change exactly? Did the presenters change? Did it move to a more traditional, fluid breakfast news programme rather than random segments linked together. Was it still presented from ITN? And what happened to it in the years between 1990 and its demise in September 1992? Did it stay relatively stable in terms of production or were further changes made?
Would love to know more about it if anyone can remember.
It changed a lot. As one of the few regular viewers, the step change was jarring.
We'd gone from Carol Barnes in a cupboard at ITN, an unseen continuity announcer (usually Bill Bingham) at Channel Four, and a presenter at Business Daily (a quick 'hit' version of the half hourly live lunchtime financial programme) who were the only live content during the show. Everything else was either pre-recorded the day before transmission (arts slot Box Office and the consumer show Streewise) or special quick versions of Countdown and cartoon archive fillers.
Come the relaunch, pretty much everything that had been pre-records were now live from desks within the same studio - memory wants me to type the studio at the top of the Trocadero in Piccadilly Circus - and instead of linked by Bill Bingham at Channel Four, was now linked in vision by the newsreader of that day.
Usually, it was Dermot Murgnerhan, who was already a known face on the previous incarnation of Channel Four Daily doing the Business Daily updates.