It's the same with Calendar. Both editions come from Leeds usually with the weather forecaster appearing on both in a matter of minutes which I suppose is better compared to Look North's weather with their forecasters broadcasting to East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire via satellite from Leeds.
MERIDIAN television, the Southampton-based regional newsroom covering Hampshire and south Wiltshire, is set to be axed as part of a national shake-up of ITV's regional programmes.
Under the plans the region's three evening news broadcasts - Meridian South, Meridian South East and Thames Valley - will become one. The new regional programme would cover and area stretching from Kent to Dorset as well as parts of Essex and Berkshire.
ITV Meridian has been on air since 1993 and employs about 180 people.
It is not known how many jobs will go because of the changes but some job losses look inevitable.
ITV plans to reduce its regional newsrooms from 17 to nine.
MERIDIAN television, the Southampton-based regional newsroom covering Hampshire and south Wiltshire, is set to be axed as part of a national shake-up of ITV's regional programmes.
Under the plans the region's three evening news broadcasts - Meridian South, Meridian South East and Thames Valley - will become one. The new regional programme would cover and area stretching from Kent to Dorset as well as parts of Essex and Berkshire.
ITV Meridian has been on air since 1993 and employs about 180 people.
It is not known how many jobs will go because of the changes but some job losses look inevitable.
ITV plans to reduce its regional newsrooms from 17 to nine.
At this rate there will soon be two newsrooms. Granada will cover the whole of the north of england while Carlton will cover the south. I can hear the continuity announcement now:
"Your'e watching ITV1. Now the news for the North Of England live from Manchester in Granada Reports"
This is ridiculous
That might be optimistic... It could easily be :
"You're watching ITV1. Now the news for the North Of England live from a studio, next to the other one, in the basement of Grays Inn Road, in Granada Reports"
Actually, you're not far off the mark... the South edition of North East Tonight currently comes from a studio right next door to the one used for the North edition at the Tyne Tees studios in Gateshead!
Isn't that the same case for Meridian and TVT at Whitely?
Yep - Two Meridian Tonights and a Thames Valley Tonight all come from three studios in the same building.
Anglia News East and Anglia News West both come from studios in the same building in Norwich. (Anglia have never broadcast their west bulletin from "in region" - it has always been from Norwich.)
Since they closed Central's Nottingham operation, both remaining versions of Central News (East and West) come from Birmingham.
Central South was based in Abingdon, but this studio centre was shut when they merged one of the Meridian sub-regions with Central South.
Central used to have three studio centres (Nottingham, Birmingham and Abingdon)
Meridian used to have three studio centres (Southampton, New Hythe and Newbury)
ITV has been consolidating sites for a few years - as it is cheaper to operate two or three studios on one site, than on two. (Support costs drop, deploying staff is more cost effective etc.)
MERIDIAN television, the Southampton-based regional newsroom covering Hampshire and south Wiltshire, is set to be axed as part of a national shake-up of ITV's regional programmes.
Under the plans the region's three evening news broadcasts - Meridian South, Meridian South East and Thames Valley - will become one. The new regional programme would cover and area stretching from Kent to Dorset as well as parts of Essex and Berkshire.
ITV Meridian has been on air since 1993 and employs about 180 people.
It is not known how many jobs will go because of the changes but some job losses look inevitable.
ITV plans to reduce its regional newsrooms from 17 to nine.
Meridian totally axed? I was under the impression they were merging it into one programme.
You would think,in the interests of fair play,there would be a petition in favour of regional TV news cuts.
I,for one,cannot stand too many more " Not much has happened today but we're going to have a jolly good try at bringing you Armegeddon from the Sticks. "
Nothing stopping you setting one up. See how many signatures you get -- would be interesting to compare.
It's the same with Calendar. Both editions come from Leeds usually with the weather forecaster appearing on both in a matter of minutes which I suppose is better compared to Look North's weather with their forecasters broadcasting to East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire via satellite from Leeds.
The ITV regional weather forecasts are pre-recorded (albeit as-live); whereas the BBC regionals are still live AFAIK..
In 2005 CNW's studio was split in two, to house both CNE and CNW.
Calendar
did the same for the North/South split I believe.
In 2005 CNW's studio was split in two, to house both CNE and CNW.
Calendar
did the same for the North/South split I believe.
AIUI Anglia did the same when they first created Anglia News East and Anglia News West - they split an existing studio in two (could have been the old Anglia Lookaround studio - not sure) They then relocated to a different studio centre in Norwich (Anglia had two sites in the town for a while), before moving back again when the other site was sold off AIUI.
I was under the impression they were merging it into one programme.