If anyone wants to see Ben Shephard looking knackered then tune in to GMTV right now.
He must either have had a late night after the X Factor or a sleepless night wondering why he'd agreed to take part in such a lot of celebrity drivel!!!
If anyone wants to see Ben Shephard looking knackered then tune in to GMTV right now.
He must either have had a late night after the X Factor or a sleepless night wondering why he'd agreed to take part in such a lot of celebrity drivel!!!
God, he looks rough. Poor Ben.
Maybe he's doing Xtra Factor 'cause he likes it, gets paid well?
we get an ITV 1 feed because UTV doesn't start until after GMTV at 9.25am
Actually no. It's a UTV feed switched to ITV1.
What happened a while back was UTV opted into GMTVs time and GMTV werent happy so when the opportunity for it to be franchised out came round, UTV didn't get it and it went to ITN (who were using UTV facilities at the time), then when ITN moved out into it's Gt Victoria Street building, AFAIK they opted in at the transmitter, hence picture roll that happened quite a bit.
Then in 2005, McMillan got the contract for the local news, which comes from it's purpose built centre off the Dublin Road. They send their signal to UTV via microwave which then goes off to transmission.
Was it not a massive breaking news story of some kind? Something to do with the peace process perhaps? If I remember rightly UTV opted in because they felt they had a massive story, not thinking about the fact that they didn't actually own the airtime.
This morning's GMTV ended silently, with a dedication to Jeremy King (IIRC) who had obviously recently passed away, and then the silence continued to the end "See you tomorrow..." graphic. Anyone know anything about Jeremy King?
He was a well regarded producer who committed suicide.