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Madeleine Coverage

ONE YEAR ON (May 2007)

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GM
GMc
StevieB posted:
Not sure if it's been mentioned but theres an ITV News Special today at 5pm with the latest on this story.


I take it the News Special isn't being broadcast on UTV?
GI
gilsta
ITV News Special featured family members keeping up to date with events in Portugal, by watching BBC News 24. Sky will be pleased.

Edit: GMc, it is, they cut into Heartbeat.
MA
markstewart
What a joke. ITV can ship out the news specials for this and yet a bombed Glasgow airport doesn't get a whiff...pathetic.
MA
markstewart
UTV just as bad. Not exactly going to be that interesting to Irish viewers is it.
GM
GMc
markstewart posted:
What a joke. ITV can ship out the news specials for this and yet a bombed Glasgow airport doesn't get a whiff...pathetic.


That happened at the weekend, when there would have been much less resources. But, I agree they still should have at least had a News Report in the afternoon...
GI
gilsta
markstewart posted:
UTV just as bad. Not exactly going to be that interesting to Irish viewers is it.


There are posters in shops etc here just as there are in England, its a story that has really caught the publics imagination (or the press have told the public to care about). If becoming a suspect gets this much attention imagine the trial.
JR
jrothwell97
What next?

Will ITV be breaking into programmes every time Kate McCann breaks wind!? It's absurd!
TV
tvarksouthwest
I actually thought it was reasonable for ITV to have a news report at the end of Jeremy Kyle this morning, and was rather surprised the BBC did not have any special coverage.

But if ITV are now breaking into Heartbeat they are behaving like the worst kind of tabloid, something I thought broadcast news wasn't supposed to do.
GM
GMc
jrothwell97 posted:
What next?

Will ITV be breaking into programmes every time Kate McCann breaks wind!? It's absurd!


How is it absurd. This shows that ITV/ITN are still capable of pulling out all the stops to bring viewers up to date with a big news story.
:-(
A former member
I dont see what the big fuss is, shes been made a formal suspect, which from what ive gathered is not the exact same as in the UK eyes of suspect, and that she has not been charged yet.

Its not juts Daily Obsess, the whole media is obsessed. To me this is just another story, as a fan of news and current affairs, this story has been interesting looking at how the media go into overdrive, but overall i really dont care if they are charged, or not.
GI
gilsta
UTV still with the news special, are they contracted to show anything ITN put on ITV1? To not show UTV Life makes no sense, they mustve been near ready to go on air.
NE
Newsroom
Absolutely crackers!!!!

Like someone else has said - TERRORISM HITS GLASGOW - Not a peep outside of normal programming.

Kate McCann made a suspect - ONE HOUR NEWS SPECIAL.

Mannion is losing his mind!

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