Loving Daybreak - I think it a a refreshing and moren change after 17 years of the same from GMTV. Love the studio, love the presenters (not sure how long Kate is going to hang around - she needs to do more as currently she is Richard Arnold's replacement). I noticed this morning they seemed to be doing a lot more "lives" - hope this doesn't happen again as I like to see the reporters/editors etc. talking about the story on the sofa.
Loving Daybreak - I think it a a refreshing and moren change after 17 years of the same from GMTV. Love the studio, love the presenters (not sure how long Kate is going to hang around - she needs to do more as currently she is Richard Arnold's replacement). I noticed this morning they seemed to be doing a lot more "lives" - hope this doesn't happen again as I like to see the reporters/editors etc. talking about the story on the sofa.
Come next year they'll relaunch and do GMTV again (under the Daybreak banner), because it was formula that worked.
Come next year they'll relaunch and do GMTV again (under the Daybreak banner), because it was formula that worked.
Except that it wasn't working - it was being trounced by Breakfast.
Lets be honset GMTV dumped there idea and went back to TVAM format,
No one has been able to change the format and make it work ( its been changed once 0-)
I recorded Daybreak this morning to check it out... and noticed that, here in Northern Ireland, there were local ads.
Well, I spotted one anyway.
It was an ad for Lidl, fronted by Colin Murray and had a graphic referring to the prices applying in NI only.
Did this happen during GMTV?
I wonder who is transmitting the ads for Northern Ireland...
Macmillan Media (who produced the Northern Ireland News)?
UTV (I think the Macmillian output is routed via UTV)?
Technicolour?
Do the titles of BBC Breakfast connect with the audience?
They do their job, they fill a few seconds, introduce and name the programme... what more do you want?
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I don't think the Daybreak titles are great by any means - they're much too metropolitan in my opinion. I would have preferred something gentler and more inspirational like the Breakfast Time titles, which depicted a variety of job roles and ambiguous locations, compared to Daybreak's legion of office workers and blatantly south eastern settings.
Do you think it's 'blatently south east'? to be honest apart from the end shot the only bit that is recognisably 'south east' is the one of Parliament Hill and a very obscure one at that.
The stings can hardly be accused of being South East-centric... there's a tram in one (and not a Croydon tram)!
Except for the pacing (they go on forever!), I can't really see much difference between the titles for Breakfast Time and Daybreak in terms of concept
I recorded Daybreak this morning to check it out... and noticed that, here in Northern Ireland, there were local ads.
Well, I spotted one anyway.
It was an ad for Lidl, fronted by Colin Murray and had a graphic referring to the prices applying in NI only.
Did this happen during GMTV?
I wonder who is transmitting the ads for Northern Ireland...
Macmillan Media (who produced the Northern Ireland News)?
UTV (I think the Macmillian output is routed via UTV)?
Technicolour?
Didn't they always have different ads?
The commercials have been regionalised (albeit 'macro' regions) since TVam's days. They wouldn't have been done by the news provider the playout provider (was TVam, then LNN, now Technicolor) would play them out
I can't believe it. I jump on a plane and this thread goes into meltdown! I miss all of the fun. Who the hell let ginofish loose on here again?
Anyway, to bring it back to Daybreak, could anybody (Gavin? House? Pete?) offer a summary of the programme? Good points, bad points, etc. I can't see it as I'm back home and it sounds as though a whole kettle of fish has been opened.
I recorded Daybreak this morning to check it out... and noticed that, here in Northern Ireland, there were local ads.
Well, I spotted one anyway.
It was an ad for Lidl, fronted by Colin Murray and had a graphic referring to the prices applying in NI only.
Did this happen during GMTV?
I wonder who is transmitting the ads for Northern Ireland...
Macmillan Media (who produced the Northern Ireland News)?
UTV (I think the Macmillian output is routed via UTV)?
Technicolour?
Didn't they always have different ads?
The commercials have been regionalised (albeit 'macro' regions) since TVam's days. They wouldn't have been done by the news provider the playout provider (was TVam, then LNN, now Technicolor) would play them out
I'm sure you are right... I could count the hours I've watched commercial breakfast telly on one hand.
Also noticed that the UTV dog appeared over Lorraine at 08:40 ... very naughty, it shouldn't be seen until 09:25.
Until last week, you could (intentionally) see Norn Irn ads topped to tailed with ITV1-branded break bumpers and trails. And it looked smooth and professional until you got to 9.24:59 and a silent ident before Kyle...
I wonder now, given the breakfast hours are operated by a subsidiary of ITV, they are more willing to turn a blind eye to any mischief - deliberate or not - from Havoc House, rather than attempt to pull at OFCOM's (replace heart for another inconsequential organ)-strings and get them engaged in a STV-like battle of lawsuits.
Not that I'd ever imagine anything as severe as UTV crashing into pre-9.25am territory again - that would require too much effort on the part of the Havoc House lot, really.