In my day the regional news opts were controlled from the GMTV/GMB gallery - the gallery 'panel' controlled a 2by1 switch at each local news inject point so it wasn't actually that easy for a local news inject point to insert itself into the incoming GMTV/GMB feed without physical cross patching etc. I suspect not much has changed. So if there's no-one in the gallery ... Chiswick never had panel.
In my day the regional news opts were controlled from the GMTV/GMB gallery - the gallery 'panel' controlled a 2by1 switch at each local news inject point so it wasn't actually that easy for a local news inject point to insert itself into the incoming GMTV/GMB feed without physical cross patching etc. I suspect not much has changed. So if there's no-one in the gallery ... Chiswick never had panel.
It would seem odd if Chiswick couldn't just do it how they do it the rest of the day. Or even in these days when the seperate breakfast license is mostly irrelevant, is it still a significant reconfiguration of the network every morning?
It's amazing that this Lorraine programme has got on air really - what you're watching is being played out live from ITN! Apparently the tape got there with only minutes to go and transmission were only able to see and hear it within 60 seconds of the programme's on air time.
In my day the regional news opts were controlled from the GMTV/GMB gallery - the gallery 'panel' controlled a 2by1 switch at each local news inject point so it wasn't actually that easy for a local news inject point to insert itself into the incoming GMTV/GMB feed without physical cross patching etc. I suspect not much has changed. So if there's no-one in the gallery ... Chiswick never had panel.
So does that mean that during ITV Breakfast the network reverts to how it used to be, each region gets a feed from the South Bank which it opts into (controlled from London) rather than being a contribution into Chiswick/Leeds?
It's amazing that this Lorraine programme has got on air really - what you're watching is being played out live from ITN! Apparently the tape got there with only minutes to go and transmission were only able to see and hear it within 60 seconds of the programme's on air time.
Isn't the This Morning studio in a completely separate building? Surprised there isn't a contingency plan to use that in this kind of scenario.
Not sure how seperate it is, probably not enough to be not evacuated too in such a circumstance. Also with fires there's the likelyhood of power being cut. Even if the studio stayed powered, would the rest the the buildings infrastructure such as the MCR the outgoing lines pass through?
Besides, it takes a while to get a studio up and running alone being in a position to do a show. With a minute or two notice it's not gonna happen