Up to 10 minutes of shared content is allowed in all regions except Granada and London.
Also Border, Channel and UTV.
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Lou Scannon
Many ITV regional news programmes had been predominantly pan-regional between 2009 and 2013. For example, most Central News bulletins were a single pan-midlands editions during that era. Only the first up-to-18-minutes (if you were lucky!) of the main 6pm weekday programme, and the entire 10:30pm weeknight bulletin, were still an East Midlands/West Midlands split. One of the two sub-regional variants would be pre-recorded "as live" shortly before broadcast.
The return of full sub-regionality in 2013 (with each and every bulletin throughout the day now being a full pre-record for one out of each pair of sub-regions) was achieved without any increase in budget or resources. Hence easing the burden by e.g. allowing up to 1/3 of the 6pm content to be shared generic copy across multiple regions, cutting the lunchtime bulletin back to a measly 3-4 minutes (barely worth bothering with!), no more mid-morning & mid-afternoon updates*, etc etc. (*Had they actually already disappeared even before the 2013 changes?)
Another cunning way of further reducing the total number of different news reports that need to be produced across England, is by sniffing out news stories from overlap areas (e.g. a Taunton story can legitimately be mentioned on both West Country sub-regions' editions).
Another cunning way of further reducing the total number of different news reports that need to be produced across England, is by sniffing out news stories from overlap areas (e.g. a Taunton story can legitimately be mentioned on both West Country sub-regions' editions).
Even the regions where all content has to come within the region can come from other ITV regions if there's a crossover. London has used copy from Anglia and Meridian or from other regions where there's a connection to the home region.
In the case of London, they heavily pad their bulletins with studio guests where they can't pad with Ashna Hurynag's reports, although she has been on their bulletin if the copy is produced within their region.
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Even the regions where all content has to come within the region can come from other ITV regions if there's a crossover. London has used copy from Anglia and Meridian or from other regions where there's a connection to the home region.
Indeed.
Neighbouring regions can have shared claims to certain localities (e.g. both Meridian (West and/or Thames Valley) and West Country (East) can claim Swindon).
Even non-neighbouring regions can have crossover stories (e.g. someone from Cumbria involved in something occurring in Lincolnshire, can be a Border/Calendar share).
Tanya Arnold with Look North Breakfast this morning
No surprise it’s one of those occasions where Leeds gets its own version, but surprising Tanya is doing it rather than Charlotte or Amanda.
Senior Broadcast Journalist on duty? Noticed a lot of "sport" presenters and reporters doing a lot of news over election periods, even Simon Clark from 'Ull was doing political reports this week.
Tanya regularly read the afternoon bulletin when it existed and has presented the main 6.30 programme on many occasions, so nothing unprecedented here.
Sports Journalists are journalists who specialise in Sport but are usually just as qualified to cover general news. In fact they are usually very versatile broadcasters, and particularly useful in an "all hands on deck" situation like an election, particularly on radio.
