Would anyone like to share just how they got the show on air from Millbank? Was it simply a matter of taking all the tapes inc titles, music etc and making a run for it in a cab or is it all backed up to Millbank year round automatically? Also how difficult would it be to switch the lines at ITV from going live to Grays Inn to Millbank? It just seemed to seamless in that amount of time, would be interesting to know how it was done.
Making sure that there's a copy of your titles and graphics ready at your standby studio isn't exactly difficult (although remembering to update them when you rebrand can be!)... and that's a minor issue, they could go to air with no titles on a plain set if need be
As I mentioned before I don't know how they'd have got the video content for the programme there. It would have been on the server at GIR and so unless that is mirrored at Millbank they would need to have dubbed it off to tape and taken it with them
Scripts etc would probably be easy as the ITN part of Millbank would use the same computer system (
ENPS) as the main newsroom, assuming that the server or the back up server for that was powered.
Getting a line from Millbank to ITV's playout centre in Chiswick shouldn't be that difficult either - it's just a point of asking BT to switch an outgoing line from Millbank studios to ITV via the BT Tower. ITV will take programmes to air from BT lines all the time. As i mentioned on the thread about the fault at the same time on Living, I suppose it could be possible that the BBC helped out by using their direct lines from their part of Millbank
"Welcome to the ITV News *horn*, oops apologies there..
