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General day to day goings-ons (August 2004)

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Time Warp
Jez, you mst be jumping in your chair now; Lucy was introduced to "News at Ten"! Very Happy
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fanboy
jdtech posted:
Or they paid her enough money...

You weren't lying when you said you didn't like Nina.
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Joshua
Unusual ending to the news tonight ...Just after felicity read the sport she was saying keep up to date witht Katrina on the ITV News channel and just before she said Im back later..Bye we just heard the end part of the titles(not all of them) no anamation onscreen and it went off .
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Jonathan
fanboy posted:
jdtech posted:
Or they paid her enough money...

You weren't lying when you said you didn't like Nina.


jdtech, what an insensitive thing to say. The poor girl's had an ordeal, the least she'd be interested in doing is going into work for a bonus.. It's called being professional.
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SCBNI
Here on UTV, our introduction to the 11:15 ITV News just said "You're watching UTV, it's just gone 17 minutes past 10"!!
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Londoner
This weekend's ITV coverage of the post-Katrina situation has been a bit of a let-down after Friday's tour de force, with some very strong ITV1 bulletins.

They have well and truly been left behind by the BBC, Sky and C4 this past couple of days.

And as for the News Channel, they're usually quite good at punching above their weight and masking the huge gap in budgets between them and Sky/N24, it's times like this that that it's painfully obvious, with no lives (or practically none, anyway, save a few phonos) from the States at all outside the ITV1 bulletins, let alone any presenters on location. On the other hand, it's been interesting to see all the MSNBC and NBC stuff they've been showing.

It will be interesting to see what tomorrow brings, especially with it being the start of the new season, etc.
LO
Londoner
And now Alastair Stewart is back in London, for today's Lunchtime News.

Maybe he was on holiday in the States, and headed for the ITN Washington bureau when the Katrina story got really major?
LO
Londoner
Mark Austin is also back in London - he's a guest in the studio on This Morning.
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ohwhatanight Founding member
Londoner posted:
Mark Austin is also back in London - he's a guest in the studio on This Morning.


I quite like the way that This Morning can have a fluffy item next to a serious story like this and they let it run and run. Mark Austin was very relaxed and gave some interesting facts and stories about the hurricane disaster. Also in the advert break there was the promotion for the ITV News at 6.30.
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richard h
just seen an extended promotion for the 6:30 with mark and mary did anyone manage to capture it in the ad break of dial a mum
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Jonathan
Not your everyday pair up on the News Channel. Mark Austin and Lucy Alexander. Sorry, I just thought it was strange to see. They must be saving Mary (who would normally do this slot) for the Evening News.
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ohwhatanight Founding member
me_for_nina posted:
Not your everyday pair up on the News Channel. Mark Austin and Lucy Alexander. Sorry, I just thought it was strange to see. They must be saving Mary (who would normally do this slot) for the Evening News.


I can't believe the amount of fuss that ITV are making over a news presenter returning from maternity leave!

It seems they want to reveal her at 18:30 rather than doing the 15:00 hour on the ITV News Channel.

PS Mark Austin has been busy today. He is getting really involved in the hurrican story. There is supposed to be a very harrowing report on tonight's evening news.

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