Daybreak - the launch onwards

Found this on youtube of daybreak 7sunrise style

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHUl2NokU4g&feature=related

That would NEVER work. Not with the music put in that video.

Yuck, if Daybreak were to have pop music as open/close and in and out of breaks it just looks and sounds cheap and tacky. Changing the music isn't going to solve Daybreaks problems.

It's good to see that they're lifting the screens earlier now (around 08:00)

Studio doesn't feel as boxed-in

they changed the program around today, after the news at 6:08 they had the story about the moscow bombing then in the mix was after the regional opt

I've just been on YouTube and watched the highlights of the first Daybreak on YouTube, and on that they showed the weather with all the live cameras which I believe was ditched after a day. Anywho, I understand it's expensive to get all the trucks out and set the cameras up to link with London. But that's made me think, do they really have to do that? Why can't they use the regional news backdrops? I'm sure they're live cameras? And instead stream that to London because surely they have direct link from London to the regions? Or set a camera up at the regional newroom with a view, and stream it over fibre?

I'm only asking out of curiousity because it was something they tried but immediately stopped, and it was a good idea, but there was far too much time spent going through them.

I think that it was only every planned to show the regional feeds on the launch day so that you could watch daybreak (i.e. the day breaking) happen live. I don't think they ditched it - it was just a launch thing.

The BBC used to use weather cameras in the early 00s - and they were the cameras also used for the regional backdrops in many regional studios. However they fell out of favour more recently - I'm not sure how much they really add to a forecast? Most people can look out of the window to see what things are like where they are - and probably don't have much interest in what the weather is doing elsewhere?

Hmm. Maybe. But it's hardly a launchy thing. If they had 'launch parties' or something, then maybe...

True what you say about looking out the window though, and it took too much time to go through. I couldn't give a monkeys what the weather was like in Ilkley Moor and Port Isaac. I was just curious as to what had happened to the item Many thanks

They're not live pictures. Most regions have 2 or 3 different recorded versions for daylight, dusk and evening.

Granada and London have live cameras in the background, but the likes of South West and I think Tyne Tees & Border have a pre-recorded loop.

I guess if they were that bothered, these days they could set up a few HD webcams in various locations which wouldn't be too complicated.

Fantastic quip spotted on Daybreak this morning that went along the lines of somebody texted in to "complain" that the studio clock was an hour behind, to which one could only assume the numpty was watching on ITV1+1.

Some people just shouldn't have access to TV.