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And, speak of the devil, there Gemma was, live in the South studio. Fred thanked her graciously for coming and she said she'd come to see us again on Monday.

She wasn't as chatty as Martin, though to be honest I was rather shocked at the time at the awful lighting during the weather forecast. It made her arse look shiny, her hair look greasy and her skin look lumpy and pale. Her hand turned white whenever she lifted it up to point at the map.

So just to confirm, how many sub-regional MT's are there? It used to be three, I take it that it still is - but do they all come from the new facility?

Yes, there are still three and yes, they do all come from the new facility.

Yes - still three editions.

In the space of two years Meridian have gone from having two decent regional news studios and newsrooms - in Newbury and New Hythe - as well as a decent network production studio operation, as well as a newsroom and decent sized studio for local news in Northam.

First they shut the Newbury studio and moved the operation to a second studio at Northam.

Now they have closed the other two existing operations (Northam and New Hythe) and built three sub-regional studios and galleries at Whiteley.

From rumours - I hear that there are very few edit suites and picture editors at the new operation, with journo based editing in the regional newsrooms (There are small newsroom operations at Maidstone and Newbury?) as well as the main Whiteley newsroom.

It can hardly be said that either the quality of the news coverage or studio production has taken a major leap forward - though the new astons are nice I suppose... (And think how much money ITV is saving - now is it going to go on better programmes or larger profits for share-holders - probably both in truth)

Fred was on UK Today this afternoon:
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...though his name was misspelt:
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What's with the image on the plasma? Is that what you see all the time or does it ever say Meridian News/Tonight?

Yes it is on every Meridian News

Itv News got So Raman's name on UK Today called him Sol but i think more have heard of Fred then So.

Sorry, but I fail to see the spelling error:
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It's Dinenage

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