mmm GMTV is yellow, NEW ITV news is yellow. ITV1 is yellow I think the brand is already there!
Yes but GMTV News is a green/blue colour
Off topic, and perhaps related to the ITV takeover, earlier on Xtra Factor they shown clips of what contestants have been up to and John & Edward appeared on GMTV. But rather than just listing it 'GMTV' as programmes usually would it was 'GMTV, ITV1' so that pretty much confirms ITV are now treating it as a show rather than a separate channel.
Or a researcher simply didn't understand that GMTV is a franchise rather than a programme? Seems more likely in my opinion.
I think they provide newsgathering facilities (access to ITN's hired satellite trucks - which I think are provided by the SISLink arm of SISLive mostly) and some news material (rushes etc.) - but AIUI the actual production journalism (the people who organise the coverage, write it, etc.) are still GMTV not ITN, and the GMTV reporters are GMTV, rather than ITN, employees?
(Effectively ITN operate as a news agency supplier to ITN, rather than as a sub-contracted news programme provider - as they do for ITV1 and C4, and previously did for Five)
I've never really understood the relationship between ITN and GMTV. There are regularly items on video news agency feeds that are specifically 'NO GMTV' I assume these are ITN domestic pictures
mmm GMTV is yellow, NEW ITV news is yellow. ITV1 is yellow I think the brand is already there!
Yes but GMTV News is a green/blue colour
Off topic, and perhaps related to the ITV takeover, earlier on Xtra Factor they shown clips of what contestants have been up to and John & Edward appeared on GMTV. But rather than just listing it 'GMTV' as programmes usually would it was 'GMTV, ITV1' so that pretty much confirms ITV are now treating it as a show rather than a separate channel.
Or a researcher simply didn't understand that GMTV is a franchise rather than a programme? Seems more likely in my opinion.
Considering the same happened on TV Burp ('GMTV with Lorraine, ITV1') then the researchers are either inept, or is it a coincidence shows suddenly say that in the week that ITV take over GMTV?
I think they provide newsgathering facilities (access to ITN's hired satellite trucks - which I think are provided by the SISLink arm of SISLive mostly) and some news material (rushes etc.) - but AIUI the actual production journalism (the people who organise the coverage, write it, etc.) are still GMTV not ITN, and the GMTV reporters are GMTV, rather than ITN, employees?
(Effectively ITN operate as a news agency supplier to ITN, rather than as a sub-contracted news programme provider - as they do for ITV1 and C4, and previously did for Five)
This is correct. In other words, ITN is more of a facilities provider than a supplier of news, copy, reporters and feeds.
Considering the same happened on TV Burp ('GMTV with Lorraine, ITV1') then the researchers are either inept, or is it a coincidence shows suddenly say that in the week that ITV take over GMTV?
I'd imagine that was just a mistake by a researcher. I noticed two similar mistakes with clip captions on
'Russell Howard's Good News Extra'
on BBC Three last night:
BBC News
24
, BBC News
BBC Breakfast
News
, BBC1
The average bod in the street wouldn't notice the error!
Though, she's been there and done that, back in 93, when Lorraine was hastily moved back onto the main show after Fiona Armstrong and her F-Factor quit...
Last week, ITV announced it had taken control of the 25% of GMTV it did not already own, which could lead to some big changes. "I'm keeping well out of it!" Phillips says of the takeover.
Good.
These quotes made me lol:
Quote:
Phillips returns to television on Tuesday 8 December, presenting a three-part series on Christmas for ITV1. "It's not going to set the world alight," she says,
Quote:
"I'd really like to do an ITV consumer show. Watchdog is very middle-class. It talks about BMWs and things like that."
Quote:
She is currently suing one magazine for suggesting she may have to sell her house in order to pay the bills.
As of this week, GMTV suddenly seems to be giving slightly more time to serious news. Who'd have thought it???!
No coincidence of course that ITV bosses have just begin their editorial review of output. It's a shame that it takes the threat of closure for GMTV to do the serious stuff.
BBC News
