As I predicted, Sky has handed the ITV News Channel a niche. People who don't want Eamonn Holmes talking crap throughout a sports bulletin, 'personality' news bulletins or any of that associated nonsense, and are bored of the BBC's bland presentation, will turn to ITV. I know I will be tomorrow morning.
It's just a pitty that the internal politics of ITV stops them from advertising ITV News Breakfast much on ITV1
What are these rules? On Friday nights, Live with John Nicolson is advertised at the end of the News at Ten Thirty.
Back to my earlier thoughts over a more structured prime-time schedule:
How about something like this:
19.00 Evening News Extra
More from the Evening news team, including interviews, phone-ins and analysis plus more on the top stories of the day.
20.00 ITV News
Felicity Barr presents the day’s top stories and latest developments.
21.00 ITV News Network
Joyce O’Haja presents the nightly programme bringing together the top stories from the ITV regions.
21.45 ITV News Sport Extra
Felicity Barr presents tonight’s sports bulletin.
22.00 World News at Ten
The top stories from around the World, with Joyce O’Haja.
Basically ENE is extended to an hour and includes a bit more, including a big interview, a link-up to some of the regional news rooms and a sports bulletin with Felicity.
At 8pm we're back to a regular news hour (an alternative to Sky's World News Tonight), then at 9pm an extended News Network, followed by a nightly sports bulletin at 9.45pm.
10pm is a difficult slot, as you have the main bulletin at 10.30pm and also have to compete with the BBC 10pm News. I think something different is required, that's why I went for World News - but to be honest I don't think ITV News have the resources for this. There strength is certainly with British, not World news.
Anyone have any better ideas?
Why do you want to give Joyce so much air time? She's just awful! The only time she seemed to be enjoying her job was on the 'and finally' programme where she was overexcited to be interviewing Sir Trevor McDonald.
Just using her as an example, as she's currently one of the ITV NCs prime time presenters.
What happened on tonight's news @ 10:30? When rejoining Mark from the regions, Yorkshire didn't have the usualy music just the drum beat. Then when the programme ended there was no music, just the plain drum beat then cut to weather.
What happened on tonight's news @ 10:30? When rejoining Mark from the regions, Yorkshire didn't have the usualy music just the drum beat. Then when the programme ended there was no music, just the plain drum beat then cut to weather.
Same here - must've been a network problem at ITN!
Talking about SKY News giving the other news channels a niche at doing something different - I was thinking about the difference leading upto the hour from xx:55 - xx+1:00 (for example 20:55 - 21:00)
SKY seem to go for an advert break at 20:55 - 20:58, have a 30 second mention of the top two stories, then at 20:58:30 have a one minute weather update, followed by(the already bland) top of the hour countdown studio swoop with the headlines beginning exactly on 21:00.
I wonder if there is a further advantage given to the BBC and ITV NC in SKY essentially missing out this 5 minute slot upto the hour - or whether ITV NC should adopt a similar system where the weather is a separate segment with it's own sponsorship outside the normal news hour?
ITV's version could be :-
20:56:00 - end of news hour and usual over-head shot with breaking news for britain text.
20:56:00 - 3 minute advert break
20:59:00 - 45 second weather update
20:59:45 - a 15 second ITV NC opening title sequence
21:00:00 - the infamous itn bongs and headlines?
Usually the advert break is taken at 20:57 for three minutes but by doing the above would,essentially, give ITV NC two 'extra' minutes of news than SKY used to provide in the same slot and then start the headlines actually on the hour. People WANT to see the news as soon as they turn on any news channel and exactly on the hour - it may only seem like a small advantage but people are more hungry and impatient and whilst flicking around if one channel has started before another they are more likely to stick with it!
What happened on tonight's news @ 10:30? When rejoining Mark from the regions, Yorkshire didn't have the usualy music just the drum beat. Then when the programme ended there was no music, just the plain drum beat then cut to weather.
I was watching via London and all they got was a very light bed that I've never heard before which went straight through the sting back to the News at 10.30 and on to the headlines, as if they couldn't turn it off. And the end they just played the bed very late for a few seconds and then put up an endcap.
Problems on BBC News 24 as well (totally unrelated), the music for the TOTH was out-of-sync and they played a version with the "BBC News 24" striped logo as the headline.
Looking back at posts from when the ITV News thread was first made, there are talks about a CSO. Can anyone tell me what that is?
It's chromakey. It stands for colour selection overlay I think, but i'm not sure. It's when they have blue but more commonly green screen backgrounds, like the 'theatre of news' which allows them to do all sorts of things, like during Wmbledon (my favourite 'chromakey moment') when they put Mark Austin into a tennis pitch, when he was just inside the studio. However, most of the ITV News involves chromakey, if you've ever seen shots of the studio without it turned on, it's very interesting.
