Good Morning Britain

It didn't go through the regional companies TX suites.


However it went via their regional centres as that's where the news studios were. Presumably at opt out time there was a switch between the feed from London and the local studio.

I think it's been established in previous threads that the distribution was always a bit different during Breakfast, with a macro-regional set up rather than regional. The splat was thought to be putting that back to normal.

It's also different at the weekends, where there were no regional opts and it was thought (in GMTV days) to work more like TV-am.

So the news studio gallery would put itself direct to TX, bringing in the feed from TLS as an outside source effectively?

There used to be a video on YouTube from The Disney Club from 1995, and you could see the "splat" at the end of the ad break at 9:25. The Disney Club being quite notable as it's a show that spanned the 9:25 switchover (I think the only one that ever did?), I presume partly because it's a show that pre-dated GMTV?

No idea, either that or the studio output and the network feed were on either side of a switch and they just crashed it

Remember though: that splat looks worse off tape

Bit of a crime style remix of the GMB tune on the Bodyguard whodunnit section this morning before 7!

Ofcom has ruled against GMB for not giving Herefordshire County Council a right to reply in January when Piers deliberately chose not to read their statement about not housing a war vet.

The director should have insisted it was read out, and I'm surprised Susanna didn't step in. In America those statements are referred to as a Must Do, and for good reason.

In response, Piers has ridiculed the perfectly reasoned Ofcom ruling.

Point of order, the producer or editor should have insisted - not the director.

(Whilst a director may be aware of the editorial need to do something, it's far more the responsibility of the editor or producer to ensure it happens)

The editorial need was already apparent. Piers failed to do something already scripted and the programme moved on, which I would have thought came down to the director, but I'm willing to concede I may be wrong.

No - definitely the producer's or editor's job to ensure something legally or editorially required actually happens.

A Director can try to make it happen, and do their best to, but in the 'pecking order' the talent must to listen to the editor or producer for legal and compliance reasons, far more than they do a director (who is lower down the food chain).

If Piers can't be effectively produced that gives ITV a very real issue. Piers may once have been an editor. He isn't now.

What was the desk in the sofa are a Today?