ITV Granada

Westcountry always gets ITV West if there is a problem. This is probably the 'least worst' solution since Meridian (the only other adjacent region) covers the South East and would be of little relevance to Devon/Cornwall/Dorset/Somerset viewers.

I don't recall any occasions when Calendar has failed, but I suspect Tyne Tees would historically have been used, with the YTTV connection and the large overlap in the North Yorkshire area.

I guess this assumes that whatever the problem at Leeds was only affected the news block and the transmission centre was still operational.

I remember a couple of years ago, they did one morning Central News East bulletin live from Terry Lloyd House (a problem with the CNE B'ham studio I would guess?).

So I suppose if necessary Central could do a makeshift pan-regional bulletin from Chilwell, should Gas Street completely fail for whatever reason? They could use the CNE sport presentation area, since that has autocue and the correct backgroud motif.

I cant understand why they dont just have a newsroom set and Steve and Sam could present the programme from there every night. It worked for Calendar and looked good.

Also in the final few months of Central South they kept getting Central East weather forecast by mistake.

There was a theory that the problem in Brum was more of a lack of a presenter rather than a studio failure, and somebody was available at TL House. I would expect that the programme was still working into the normal gallery.

Didn't the whole of CITV end up going via the Central West satellite truck due to a failure of some sort (power?) on one occasion?

Border has five neighbours: STV Central, Tyne Tees, Granada, Yorkshire and UTV.

Was mentioned earlier that Channel would fall back to Meridian - who would UTV fall back to?

Either London, or STV I'd imagine?

Or the blue "I T V" apology caption - if UTV had a technical problem in the main studio they can use pres, as they have done relatively recently. If the whole building is down then the transmitters will go to the apology caption in the absence of any incoming signal.

I thought it odd that a London opt out would be used considering UTV are trying to be nice and individual from the other corporate regions. Are STV similarly as proud?

TTTV on a number of occasions failed over to the other NE News broadcast (Pontop to Bilsdale or vice-versa). Of course with the two coming from the same building now that ain't gonna happen. In years gone by they'd use pres to broadcast news as well if all else failed (conversely there was also one occasion in 1993 when a block of afternoon continuity announcements were presented in-vision by Andy Kluz in Middlesbrough from a plain blue studio).

I do recall one instance in 1995 where YTV (Emley Moor) took the Bilsdale (Network North) feed -- which consisted of mostly news from North Yorkshire so they kind of got away with it.

In 2007, I remember watching the North edition of North East Tonight, where at the end of the programme the female presenter has said "we were unable to bring South viewers of the region their edition of North East Tonight", this has happened a couple of times, but I don't recall it ever happening the other way around. It must be easier now they have two studios, so they don't need to rely on Border/Yorkshire unless their is a evacuation.