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ITV criticized - Southern Scotland "unsatisfactory" news

(February 2013)

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RI
Richard
Pete posted:
All would be recorded in advance from Gateshead and the Tyne Tees South opt would share content with ITV Calendar.


Tyne Tees still have two studios don't they? So surely they could manage a bit better than currently by using both to produce the three shows.


The minute you start doing that though you increase overheads as you need more presenters and more crew to man two galleries. Recording a 5 min news round up at 5:30pm isn't that much of a problem to me.


Yes, but under these new proposals, a 20 Tyne Tees news or a 30 minute Lookaround will need to be recorded. But I think the costs of extra presenters and gallery would, as you say, push the costs up, especially, when the costs are rising anyway.
ST
Standby
Border England would be fully incorporated into ITV Tyne Tees (matching the BBC) but with 3 opt outs for Border, Tyne Tees North & Tyne Tees South (better than the BBC). All would be recorded in advance from Gateshead and the Tyne Tees South opt would share content with ITV Calendar.

Tyne Tees is no longer split for advertising, so it wouldn't be easy to bring back a south opt.
BU
buster
Yes, Tyne Tees South physically doesn't exist anymore (the capacity was used to launch some extra +1 regions) so bringing it back would be quite costly on that front as well as the programming side.

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