GMTV (1993 - 2010)

I can imagine the backdrop to be like the blue bbc news studio from a few years back (the one used in daytime) but with buildings looking like the city I can Imagine the desk to be semi circlish and there to be screens behind the presenters and then in another area a sofa .

I think Daybreak team will look more like this, than the one suggested a couple of pages back.

Senior/Chief Correspondent: Richard Gaisford
Deputy Chief Correspondent: Matt Arnold
International Affairs Correspondent: Jonathan Swain
USA Correspondent: Carla Eberhart
News Correspondent: Nick Dixon
Special Correspondent: John Stapleton
Political Editor: Sue Jameson
Political Correspondent: Cordelia Kretzschmar & Anne Alexander
Medical Editor: Dr Hillary Jones
Economics Editor: Mark Eddo
Sports Editor: Dan Lobb
Entertainment Editor: Richard Arnold
Hollywood Correspondent: Carla Romano
North: Elaine Wilcox
East: Rachel Harrison
South: Miranda Schunke
West: Marcella Whittingdale
Features: Michelle Morrison & Tiffany Royce

Does the Midlands not exist?

Surely if ITN take over news provision most of those roles will be made redundant.

Not on a compass, no!

Probably not, they'd still need the extra correspondents to fill the extra airtime.

I'd imagine that Daybreak will commission stories for themselves from their correspondents that won't appear in ITV News later, just like BBC Breakfast does - not everything they'll do will be news.

Plus of course a reporter who's out on location for a news story for the Daybreak probably wouldn't be expected to contribute to the 1:30 or later. Not only would they have been on duty for at least 8 hours (maybe more if they travelled overnight) but they could well be producing their story for the next morning

It's worth remembering that the London Tonight studio did originally have a 'soft area' and of course when it was used for After 5 the desk was moved out and replaced with essentially a chat show set-up and was used for bands

To mention (maybe pointless for most) but I notice that GMTV are still making an effort to update their website considering it will be useless come 6weeks time.

The 'What's on GMTV?' used to have a picture of John & Penny together, since Penny left I assumed for a short while they would change it to a word rather than image, instead (must have been Friday) they changed it to a picture of Kate

Working an 8 hour day - such slave drivers!

Many BBC Breakfast reports are shown throughout the day, both on the NC and in national/local bulletins if the story remains topical.

Not all reports have to be presented live!

What's that got to do with it? it's a quite normal shift to do, although the average reporter will do a lot longer hours than that.

If you look at a radio station, the staff from the breakfast shows will normally go off shift at midday or 1pm-ish


Some are - the more newsy ones - but outside of the half hourly bulletins there are many features that don't. Daybreak will almost certainly be commissioning items from their correspondents that ITV News just wouldn't want or won't be offered - a report for a magazine show is very different to one in a news bulletin. Just in the same way that the likes of Breakfast, Newsnight, Working Lunch or the regional programmes do on the BBC.


Of course, hence I said about producing their story for the next morning! A staff correspondent for something like GMTV or Breakfast might well be up early on location to do live inserts into the programme, then go off to film something else during the day for the next morning.

Going back to the original point, if ITN take over news provision of Daybreak the programme will still need a dedicated team of correspondents. ITN/ITV News will be producing stories for a programme 7 that airs hours earlier than their current first main programme at 1:30 (the mid morning bulletin and early morning news don't require much production).

Also it depends what ITN would take over, if it's just the news bulletins there's still another 30+ minutes an hour that needs filling with something

exactly. The list someone's drawn up on here is pointless. And why would Daybreak cover the 'East' and 'South' when ITV have long since got rid of correspondents in those areas?

ITV news would use some of their existing faces. Plus Kate Garraway (and Helen Fospero) will perhaps be classed as Correspondents at 'Daybreak' in the same way John Stapleton is.

A better Question would be will the morning news be kept?