ITV News

Its because the main studio has a filter of changing the picture to a tint of blue, and removes green, as the white parts of the set arnt as blue/ white in real life as you see on TV. Watch the ITV NC and their breakfiller, when Lawrence Mcginty is shown in the studio, the can see the colour is very grey. Very clever isnt it.

Er, not sure about that. I think it's just different lighting!

"SIR TREV AND THE BLONDE" is the Sunday Mirror's front page headline

Will he be forced to go, a la Blunkett??????


(said in jest before anyone jumps on it - as if we actually care what he does in his own time. Same for Blunkett actually).

How old is Sir Trevor anyway? He must be near retiring age.

Didn't another elderly ITN anchor (Sandy Gall) get caught up in a scandal a few years ago as well, resulting in his wife throwing him out and dumping his suitcases on the street??? It's good to see that these old fellas still have it!!!!!

65, he will probably retire at the end of next year. His likely successor will be probably be Mark Austin, although I wouldn't mind seeing Alastair Stewart back, but I don't think that would happen. Katie Derham and Nick Owen would be quite good candidates too.

And it is still nice to see Frank Bough at it as well, even in his 60's, a decade ago!

Nice to see Carrie Frais back on the News Channel today.

The TOTH at 4pm was a bit of a shambles though...

I found this image

http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/itv4_copy1.jpg

That looks like the newswall is being used, as its busy and has a big headline. I also like the image behind the four main squares, as apposed to just another layer of blue squares being used now. This is how they should be using it, and not with 2 presenters sitting down with just blue squares behind!

I remember that photo from the relaunch in February. It's from the rehearsals for the new set.

I just thought, if ITV News cant go w/s because of the regions, then cant they just produce it in w/s, and then the regions can transmit in either w/s or 4:3 of whatever their capabilites are. So for example, Meridian should have widescreen capabilites, so they broadcast their 16:9 ITV News feed in 16:9, but for a region like Wales, they can broadcast their 16:9 feed in 4:3 from London, if ITV Wales News cant go widescreen. Does that make sense? Its saves regions that still cant go widescreen being cropped.

But that assumes regions without a true widescreen capability have access to an aspect ratio converter. If they did, then they would indeed have the ability to transmit in 16:9 - or at least a pseudo-widescreen. Also, I'm not sure there are many broadcasters or channels that transmit a true 16:9 widescreen picture on one platform with the same picture being cropped to 4:3 on another. Most places that outlet a 16:9 image transmit a letterboxed 14:9 one on, say, analogue terrestrial. Making a 16:9 picture 'safe' to 4:3 would seriously compromise framing, I would have thought.

I think the bigger problem is the production infrastructure at ITN. It is increasingly reliant on desktop editing - and coping with aspect ratio changes in this environment is unlikely to be easy. Whilst the Quantel craft editing system is perfectly capable of this, the Omnibus browse and cut editing system isn't AIUI.

Whilst most systems should ensure everything on the server is in one aspect ratio - wrong shape pictures will always gets through and need to be fixed...