ITV London Tonight

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Aaron 6 March 2004 5:18pm

NBC posted:

Sorry ALTOWERS but the London FRANCHISE area is a far bigger place than just the Capital. This whole London Thing is why anyone is the suberbs of London is totally forgotten. How about a Home Counties TV.

It has been a problem for a long time. As others have said, no-one out of central London gets a look in for more than a mention.

I'm near Luton, and used to only get London TV, and it always makes you feel alienated, the nearest they get if you are very lucky, is Watford.

The Anglia West programme covers down as far as Harlow, Hoddesdon and Stansted, and and is quite news filled a lot of the time. At others though it can be empty, with stories drafted in from borderline areas of Norfolk. I assume the East programme covers the Southend area just as well.

DA

DAS Founding member 6 March 2004 5:24pm

Aaron posted:

I assume the East programme covers the Southend area just as well.

In my opinion, much much better.

BR

Barney Rubble 6 March 2004 10:27pm

Ben posted:

noggin posted:

James Hatts posted:

Anna Maria was at LWT News for a couple of years before the launch of LNN

I can just about remember Christopher Peacock and Liz Wickham from TVS though!

Yep - though I'm sure Anna Maria did a stint at TVS, presenting the Maidstone Coast to Coast, prior to moving to LWT (I think Liz Wickham replaced her as Mike Debens main co-presenter?)

Yep she certainly did and also did a bit of in-vision continuity too in the mid 80s for TVS, I think TV Ark has a clip of her.

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Anna Maria also did a stint as announcer / newsreader at Grampian Tv in Aberdeen. Ah those were the days!!

NG

noggin Founding member 6 March 2004 10:50pm

jordo posted:

The end music to London Tonight is brilliant, and does anyother regions use that end music or just London?

Do you really think so? I was just thinking how bad the junctions on London now sound. At 1830 you get a London headline rumble, London closing music, and that cuts straight into an identical National headline sequence. It sounds dreadful - you hear the same music about 3 times in as many minutes.

I think the BBC regional and national arrangements sound much better - they are different enough to sound good together, yet still feel part of a bigger family.

TE

TELEVISION 7 March 2004 9:14am

noggin posted:

jordo posted:

The end music to London Tonight is brilliant, and does anyother regions use that end music or just London?

Do you really think so? I was just thinking how bad the junctions on London now sound. At 1830 you get a London headline rumble, London closing music, and that cuts straight into an identical National headline sequence. It sounds dreadful - you hear the same music about 3 times in as many minutes.

I think the BBC regional and national arrangements sound much better - they are different enough to sound good together, yet still feel part of a bigger family.

I don't think any other regions use it. The merger has ruined all the music in the regions. London Tonight had brilliant music before the corporate theme, as did other regions, at least the studios still have some individuality.

LO

Londoner 7 March 2004 11:36am

The Week is coming from the old London Tonight studio. Is ITN going to take over this programme in due course?

LO

Londoner 7 March 2004 12:00pm

The programme carried a "London News Network production for LWT" endcap

LO

Londoner 7 March 2004 1:25pm

Lloyd Bracey is doing the lunchtime London Today!

EDIT - and though he got cut off in mid-sentence at the end, he said he will be back with London Tonight later.

TE

TELEVISION 7 March 2004 2:22pm

I never realised that Alastair Stewart had such a strong London accent. I was watching London Tonight the other night and he was laughing (quite loudly) and I just realised he sounds a bit like Ken Livingston.

LO

Londoner 7 March 2004 5:46pm

Lloyd's just said that Jonathan Wills and Katie Derham are presenting the main programme tomorrow, which makes sense as it was mentioned in the ITV News thread that John Nicolson will be doing 'Live with...' tomorrow on the News Channel.

SR

Sir Richard Rotcod 7 March 2004 9:47pm

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LU

Luke 8 March 2004 12:50pm

Lucy Alexander is back - doing the lunchtime summary.

(December 2003)