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NW
nwtv2003
Jez posted:
Brekkie Boy posted:
Stupid time for the morning bulletin - it be better around 11.25am in the middle of This Morning. 11.10am is just too random!

And looks like Nick is off anyhow! I think if they cut back to one Nick and Katie could still do as many bulletins just alternating considering the time they each have off!


Well 10.55am was just as random - with short bulletins they dont need to start on the hour or half past the hour like the main bulletins do. People who watch This Morning will still watch it regardless of whether its 10.55am, 11.10am or 11.30am.


True, but you have to remember that when This Morning was broadcast in 1988 and as part of the then new ITV Daytime schedule, there was also a News at 9.55am, which replaced the Regional News only bulletins at 9.25am at that point. Though when ITV introduced hour long talk shows at 9.25am, the 9.55am ITN was dropped. I guess like the 9.25am handover the 10.55am News is just one of those things that have been kept.
JE
Jez Founding member
Brekkie Boy posted:
The weather always seems to take priority. Even when bulletins are axed, the weather forecast remains, for example at 3pm every afternoon.


They also still have the regional forecasts late at the weekend - were there once late night weekend regional bulletins?


There have never been any late night regional bulletins at weekends as far back as I remember. I suggest the reason they have a weather forcast late night weekends is because its easy enough to record a weather bulletin, but if there were to be a news bulletin at the time there would be a lot of extra work for the regional news teams at weekends.
JE
Jez Founding member
nwtv2003 posted:
Jez posted:
Brekkie Boy posted:
Stupid time for the morning bulletin - it be better around 11.25am in the middle of This Morning. 11.10am is just too random!

And looks like Nick is off anyhow! I think if they cut back to one Nick and Katie could still do as many bulletins just alternating considering the time they each have off!


Well 10.55am was just as random - with short bulletins they dont need to start on the hour or half past the hour like the main bulletins do. People who watch This Morning will still watch it regardless of whether its 10.55am, 11.10am or 11.30am.


True, but you have to remember that when This Morning was broadcast in 1988 and as part of the then new ITV Daytime schedule, there was also a News at 9.55am, which replaced the Regional News only bulletins at 9.25am at that point. Though when ITV introduced hour long talk shows at 9.25am, the 9.55am ITN was dropped. I guess like the 9.25am handover the 10.55am News is just one of those things that have been kept.


As far as I remember there were regional bulletins at 9.55am and 11.55am in those days (a short ITN bulletin was broadcast first). The lunchtime news was shown after the ITV Lunchtime news at about 1.10pm and there was also the mid afternoon bulletin. They have definately cut back on the amount of regional news over the years.

I remember the 9.25am bulletin in the days before the new look daytime schedule, in those days school programmes were on ITV and the regional news was just before this - on HTV Wales it was usually the continuity annoucer who did this bulletin.
EJ
EJNutz
Before the launch of daytime TV proper ( when we had schools programmes in the morning and Crown Court and Good Afternoon in the afternoon) all we had was First Report with Leonard Parkin at 1pm followed by regional news at 1.20pm.

The next news was at 5.50 with Gordon Honeycombe and Ivor Mills followed by a 30 minute local magazine. I think some regions had a 60 minute programme. So compared to 20/30 years ago the News on ITV is a lot more in both national and regional terms.
JE
Jez Founding member
jonty09 posted:
Before the launch of daytime TV proper ( when we had schools programmes in the morning and Crown Court and Good Afternoon in the afternoon) all we had was First Report with Leonard Parkin at 1pm followed by regional news at 1.20pm.

The next news was at 5.50 with Gordon Honeycombe and Ivor Mills followed by a 30 minute local magazine. I think some regions had a 60 minute programme. So compared to 20/30 years ago the News on ITV is a lot more in both national and regional terms.


Well compaired to 10-15 years ago it seems a lot less!
PR
Primetime
Slighty off topic but
Does anyone have any studio caps of the news revamp before 2004 ?
BE
Ben Founding member
Jez posted:
Brekkie Boy posted:
The weather always seems to take priority. Even when bulletins are axed, the weather forecast remains, for example at 3pm every afternoon.


They also still have the regional forecasts late at the weekend - were there once late night weekend regional bulletins?


There have never been any late night regional bulletins at weekends as far back as I remember. I suggest the reason they have a weather forcast late night weekends is because its easy enough to record a weather bulletin, but if there were to be a news bulletin at the time there would be a lot of extra work for the regional news teams at weekends.


And of course the whole reason for late night weather at weekends is the extra money from sponsorship.
MC
mccanmat
Also am I right in saying that before 24 hour ITV, each regional used to do the weather forecast by the CA just before closedown?
DB
dbl
mccanmat posted:
Also am I right in saying that before 24 hour ITV, each regional used to do the weather forecast by the CA just before closedown?

*cough*
http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/itvlondon/thamescontinuity2-new.html#closedowns
MI
mizzb
jonty09 posted:
Before the launch of daytime TV proper ( when we had schools programmes in the morning and Crown Court and Good Afternoon in the afternoon) all we had was First Report with Leonard Parkin at 1pm followed by regional news at 1.20pm.

The next news was at 5.50 with Gordon Honeycombe and Ivor Mills followed by a 30 minute local magazine. I think some regions had a 60 minute programme. So compared to 20/30 years ago the News on ITV is a lot more in both national and regional terms.


true but telly schedules were vast empty plains back then so we accepted it.
Compared to 2005 ITV news is now a skeleton service and it looks like it is heading one way unless some body tells ITV to stop short changing its viewers.


Smile

I remember First report , Robert Kee was great as a newsreader .
LO
Londoner
Broadcast reports that Andrea Catherwood has left ITV News
Quote:
ITV News presenter Andrea Catherwood is to step down from presenting bulletins, after being signed up to present the broadcaster's new Sunday morning politics show with political commentator Andrew Rawnsley.

Catherwood, who presented ITV Weekend News, will no longer work for ITV News, following the deal to go and work on the new ITV Productions produced show, which starts this autumn. An ITV insider admitted she had broadcast her last bulletin for the network.
BR
Brekkie
Londoner posted:
Broadcast reports that Andrea Catherwood has left ITV News
Quote:
ITV News presenter Andrea Catherwood is to step down from presenting bulletins, after being signed up to present the broadcaster's new Sunday morning politics show with political commentator Andrew Rawnsley.

Catherwood, who presented ITV Weekend News, will no longer work for ITV News, following the deal to go and work on the new ITV Productions produced show, which starts this autumn. An ITV insider admitted she had broadcast her last bulletin for the network.



No surprise really - she's been squeezed out by the arrival of Nina Hossain.

Shame though - I've always felt she was pretty good!

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