Even more fundamental mistake, mixing frivilous and light news with the top stories of the day. I'm glad you felt it warrented inclusion in the headlines at both 6.30 and 6.45.
Brilliant idea in the 'coming up' at 6.45 dont mention what is actually coming up.
This evenings 6:30 News just proves how crap ITV news is, when it has to have a blast at the BBC as its main story (even though they did a better job at presenting the BBC news than the BBC did this evening) . The BBC had a Major News story from Ireland on a Bus crash, as its second Item, where did the same story rank on the 6:30 ITV news, NO WHERE!!!!!!!! The Sun has more News in it these days.
There was also a clip of Sir Trev in the ITV newsroom near the end promoted what was coming up on the ITV News at 10:30. Has this happened before?
I don't recall it - maybe its a new addition (what with it being the beginnig of a new week and all). does this means we'll see a lot of James Mates in the newsroom promoting the 10:30 now?
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What are ITV playing at?
Their standards are now shamelessly tabloid. How can they possibly legimatelty report on a commercial company's adverts? Those that shock/offend and/or are banned by regulators are sometimes briefly spoken about, but this fits none of these criteria.
I don't see why because its a commercial, ITV News immediately becomes more tacky. It is an issue which is annoying the viewers of ITV and channel 4, and ITN is investigating it, which is more than some channels are offering tonight...
I noticed the dig at the BBC during Chris Choi's report. Nice of him to take pleasure at news 24 only showing 'recorded programming since midnight', when in fact the ITV news channel does this EVERY night and indeed even showed a bulletin from Saturday night! Only the back half hours are recorded, and the BBC is providing a fantastic service with such reduced resources. Now, I wonder what we would see if ITN staff went on strike - probably all of the news channels output would be recorded!
The crazy frog is a complete non-news story (even for the 'and finally' at the end). The report included nothing new, such as providing information on how to unsubscribe if your child has subscribed, or the fact that you sign up to being charged for texts being sent to your phone etc. Im sure that Jamster are very happy that their advert managed to make its way into the newsr. Surely if the point of the report was to analyse its impact, the subscription number should have been blanked out so as not to properly advertise the tone?
I noticed the dig at the BBC during Chris Choi's report. Nice of him to take pleasure at news 24 only showing 'recorded programming since midnight', when in fact the ITV news channel does this EVERY night and indeed even showed a bulletin from Saturday night! Only the back half hours are recorded, and the BBC is providing a fantastic service with such reduced resources. Now, I wonder what we would see if ITN staff went on strike - probably all of the news channels output would be recorded!
Oh god, can the anti-ITV feeling in this place get any worse?!
Now a report about the BBC strike becomes a way to slag off ITV News based on Chris Choi reporting the facts!
What did you expect him to say? "News 24 went to recorded programming at Midnight, but that isn't very notable as we do that every night anyway. A skeleton service was provided throughout the day, that would probably have been better than if we went on strike"
I expect this sort of immature stuff on DigitalSpy (where some posters have said that ITV News should "get their own channel in order first before reporting on the BBC, that Celebrity Love Island....") but not on here!
I noticed the dig at the BBC during Chris Choi's report. Nice of him to take pleasure at news 24 only showing 'recorded programming since midnight', when in fact the ITV news channel does this EVERY night and indeed even showed a bulletin from Saturday night! Only the back half hours are recorded, and the BBC is providing a fantastic service with such reduced resources. Now, I wonder what we would see if ITN staff went on strike - probably all of the news channels output would be recorded!
Oh god, can the anti-ITV feeling in this place get any worse?!
Now a report about the BBC strike becomes a way to slag off ITV News based on Chris Choi reporting the facts!
What did you expect him to say? "News 24 went to recorded programming at Midnight, but that isn't very notable as we do that every night anyway. A skeleton service was provided throughout the day, that would probably have been better than if we went on strike"
I expect this sort of immature stuff on DigitalSpy (where some posters have said that ITV News should "get their own channel in order first before reporting on the BBC, that Celebrity Love Island....") but not on here!
I wouldnt bother Andrew, they arnt worth the usage of your keypad. Leave them if they want to be License Fee glory hunters, they're too thick to realise it.
I wouldnt bother Andrew, they arnt worth the usage of your keypad. Leave them if they want to be License Fee glory hunters, they're too thick to realise it.
Completely agree. And to the person in the "BBC Strike thread" who said (regarding Choi's ITV News report on the BBC strike)...
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Looks like the usual "lets take the opportunity to slag off the license-fee" to me...
What utter crap, considering ITV1 positively SUPPORT the license fee - do they want a strong BBC to go commercial - I think not!
are there any other sites apart from 'newschannel.org' (which is cr@p) and TV Room, dedicated to or covering ITV News??
I'm considering setting up a Flash/HTML based ITV News site and at one point I was working on an ITV News Channel 2004 section for TV Room, but I had to restore my PC and lost all the files!
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it was nice to see mark and nina hand over to trevor mcdonald in the itv newsroom for a taster of what was coming up at 10:30
I noticed the dig at the BBC during Chris Choi's report. Nice of him to take pleasure at news 24 only showing 'recorded programming since midnight', when in fact the ITV news channel does this EVERY night and indeed even showed a bulletin from Saturday night! Only the back half hours are recorded, and the BBC is providing a fantastic service with such reduced resources. Now, I wonder what we would see if ITN staff went on strike - probably all of the news channels output would be recorded!
Oh god, can the anti-ITV feeling in this place get any worse?!
Now a report about the BBC strike becomes a way to slag off ITV News based on Chris Choi reporting the facts!
What did you expect him to say? "News 24 went to recorded programming at Midnight, but that isn't very notable as we do that every night anyway. A skeleton service was provided throughout the day, that would probably have been better than if we went on strike"
I expect this sort of immature stuff on DigitalSpy (where some posters have said that ITV News should "get their own channel in order first before reporting on the BBC, that Celebrity Love Island....") but not on here!
I wouldnt bother Andrew, they arnt worth the usage of your keypad. Leave them if they want to be License Fee glory hunters, they're too thick to realise it.
Indeed.
Some points are true, such as ITV hardly covering the breaking news in Ireland when News 24 could manage it on skeleton staff, when ITV News use the tagline Breaking News for Britain, but for other points such as overnight recordings, it was sloppy that they used Saturday's bulletin, but it's still on it's feet.
I wish that ITV could turn it around over the weekend, but without funding for more presenters overnight and in the day, they won't get that far.
I'm not any ITV, I'd just like to see it improve, surely it's possible to make tweaks to improve it straight off, instead of majorly relaunching the channel.
For me, it would be simple things like replace the background with either the atrium view used for election night, or a newsroom view, it surely wouldn't be that hard to have camera's from you're own builing live all day.
Plus making the line up complete, making sure that the correct people are on air at the right times, and replacing one person when they're not on. At the moment, Andrew & Lucy and Alastair are the only ones that appear on a daily basis in the same slot for more than a few weeks.
Surely it isn't that complicated; Andrew & Lucy, Alastair, Lunchtime News, Leyla & Owen, Evening News Preview, Steve & Felicity, Evening News, Joyce (and someone), Lloyd (or someone, and someone).
And then you look at long term goals of improving the breaking news service, to be quick again (which is something that I feel that they've lacked on recently), and improving the depth that they give to breaking news and also all other news in general, then making weather live through the day, having sports presenters, going widescreen, improving the website (maybe have that run by and from ITN, I'm not sure how they do it at the moment), and possibly start up an interactive service, then you start to improve the channel through appearance and audience reaction, as at that point viewers would tune in to certain people (especially if you can get some great news readers either of past or present) at their certain slot.
Once again I'm not trying to slate them, I'd just like them to improve.
