ITV Wales News & Wales Tonight

ITV Wales sets sights on S4C news - Media Guardian

- ITV Wales has launched a campaign to win the contract to supply S4C with news - replacing the BBC.

- in January ITV Wales will launch a new English-language current affairs programme, Wales This Week, in prime time, replacing Tonight with Trevor McDonald in Wales.

That will be good as Wales This week is a good series. Dont Ulster do the same and opt out of "Tonight" with their own current affairs series ?

Well now didn't HTV do this some years ago -- timeshifting Tonight until late in the evening?

Every time a regional programme is inserted into a peak-time network slot, the duty office get complaints about when they will see the programme they wanted to see and not some award winning programme about their region.
And can you guess who the schedulers listen to the most?

Well now I daresay it's not that different to anywhere else in the ITV group, but Wales had a breakdown so it wins.

Swansea Market features in the titles too.

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News breakdown slide -- ITV1 apology slide with anno -- Back in stretchy vision with out of breath Lucy [who never really recovered]
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Rather rude of Wales to keep flashing up odd frames of West's story about chewing gum on pavements while they were sorting out their aspect ratio problems this evening, I thought.

It was a fire alarm rather than a breakdown, so they all had to go and stand in the car park. My money's on a Sue Powell-Reed led terror attack.

Lucy got *very* giggly towards the end. We'll have words later, she's not gonna get National behaving like that.

Perhaps they popped in the bar after the fire drill on their way back up?

John

Hmm, I hope Chris Rogers hasn't been a bad influence during her stints in London.

*joke*

What do you mean - I haven't seen Chris Rogers present very often. Only on the News Channel anyway.

John

Well now I am wondering why we are able to hear their fire alarm in the first place.

If radio studios usually have a light which flashes for the fire alarm, to disguise the fact to the listener so the tape can be put on ready -- why is this not the same for news studios?

Or is it just HTV -- it has happened at least twice before in recent times.

Wales Tonight seems to have a new angle of Cardiff bay as their back drop it also looks live.