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Good Morning Britain - the launch

(April 2014)

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bazinga
[quote="DanielK" pid="922787"]
David posted:
DanielK posted:
STV decide to cut in over the pollen count at 6:56.


Did they play the bit with Benny Sheppard introducing the region by name or did they go straight in to the STV news?


Yes they did. GMB played the weather sting for the pollen report and then STV crashed in with the GMB sting with the helicopter shot of London (why not Glasgow?!).

David posted:
623058 posted:
OR GMB was running late.


Are you suggesting that all [STV] opts are automated and Good Morning Britain usually hit their junctions accurately to the exact second or are you suggesting that the person whose job it is to press the button at STV got fed up with waiting?[/quote
I think GMB was running a little late, STV got fed up of waiting and opted, then when they realised they had extra time at the end of the opt, they recapped the top story.


Either, they got fed up of waiting... Rolling Eyes
or, simply someone 'pressed the wrong button', and they happend to be ready.
Talking of regional news, the extended bulletins don't seem to be much longer than before here in the STV region, it seems very rushed, you can tell part of the story has been cut to fit the time (which is obvious in bulletins with a short time) but, they seem to market it as news,travel and weather. And tbh, there usually isn't any travel news at all, which viewers want to know about. Would it kill them to have a 3/4 minute bulletin twice an hour with a proper travel bulletin at least once an hour. Not adding 30 seconds onto the time, that's a joke. Surely, it must be burning money away staffing the regions at that time of the morning for a 2 minute bulletin. IMO.
Rant over Wink ....
DK
DanielK
Tbh, they should get rid of the dedicated regional slots and replace with ad breaks and let each region choose what ad break they want to replace with their opt, after all going into a break GMB never says "we'll be back after this break", you just get the bed continuing and the 'runaround' shot. The region could opt and run their sting, replace the ad break with news and then go back to the programme.
DA
David
DanielK posted:
Tbh, they should get rid of the dedicated regional slots and replace with ad breaks and let each region choose what ad break they want to replace with their opt, after all going into a break GMB never says "we'll be back after this break", you just get the bed continuing and the 'runaround' shot. The region could opt and run their sting, replace the ad break with news and then go back to the programme.


Think about what you just said. Stupid, isn't it?
DK
DanielK
David posted:
DanielK posted:
Tbh, they should get rid of the dedicated regional slots and replace with ad breaks and let each region choose what ad break they want to replace with their opt, after all going into a break GMB never says "we'll be back after this break", you just get the bed continuing and the 'runaround' shot. The region could opt and run their sting, replace the ad break with news and then go back to the programme.


Think about what you just said. Stupid, isn't it?

Not really, it is done successfully in the US (and Australia), if there is an ad break before the next local news and the region needed to put some travel news or something out quickly, they air in the ad break and replace the later local news with an ad break.
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Gary McEwan
But this isn't the US or Australia. Could you imagine the amount of effort each region would need to put it in to do this??
DK
DanielK
Gary McEwan posted:
But this isn't the US or Australia. Could you imagine the amount of effort each region would need to put it in to do this??

All they are doing is opting at a different time, or to be more precise, opting where that region finds it appropriate.
JO
Jon
DanielK posted:
Gary McEwan posted:
But this isn't the US or Australia. Could you imagine the amount of effort each region would need to put it in to do this??

All they are doing is opting at a different time, or to be more precise, opting where that region finds it appropriate.

1. ITV regions aren't that autonomous in any of other aspect of scheduling, so who'd be responsible for deciding?

2. What could possibly be that different between the regions that times would need to vary by such a small extent?
GM
Gary McEwan
Jon posted:
DanielK posted:
Gary McEwan posted:
But this isn't the US or Australia. Could you imagine the amount of effort each region would need to put it in to do this??

All they are doing is opting at a different time, or to be more precise, opting where that region finds it appropriate.

1. ITV regions aren't that autonomous in any of other aspect of scheduling, so who'd be responsible for deciding?

2. What could possibly be that different between the regions that times would need to vary by such a small extent?


What goes out on STV is exactly the same as on say Yorkshire, bar one or two local adverts that they do slip in which is rare these days...
DK
DanielK
Jon posted:
DanielK posted:
Gary McEwan posted:
But this isn't the US or Australia. Could you imagine the amount of effort each region would need to put it in to do this??

All they are doing is opting at a different time, or to be more precise, opting where that region finds it appropriate.

1. ITV regions aren't that autonomous in any of other aspect of scheduling, so who'd be responsible for deciding?

2. What could possibly be that different between the regions that times would need to vary by such a small extent?


1. It would be the duty presenter or producers call, or if someone more senior is in at the time.

2. If a break was at say, 7.15 but there is no local news until 7:27 and 'Region X' has some breaking travel news at 7:15, they can relay it (and the rest of their bulletin) at that time, and then output an ad break at 7:27.
MA
Macalolo
DanielK posted:
Jon posted:
DanielK posted:
Gary McEwan posted:
But this isn't the US or Australia. Could you imagine the amount of effort each region would need to put it in to do this??

All they are doing is opting at a different time, or to be more precise, opting where that region finds it appropriate.

1. ITV regions aren't that autonomous in any of other aspect of scheduling, so who'd be responsible for deciding?

2. What could possibly be that different between the regions that times would need to vary by such a small extent?


1. It would be the duty presenter or producers call, or if someone more senior is in at the time.

2. If a break was at say, 7.15 but there is no local news until 7:27 and 'Region X' has some breaking travel news at 7:15, they can relay it (and the rest of their bulletin) at that time, and then output an ad break at 7:27.


There'd be no consistency, nobody would know when the local news is
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JO
Jon
DanielK posted:
1. It would be the duty presenter or producers call, or if someone more senior is in at the time.

I'm sure that would be more trouble than it's worth.
DanielK posted:
2. If a break was at say, 7.15 but there is no local news until 7:27 and 'Region X' has some breaking travel news at 7:15, they can relay it (and the rest of their bulletin) at that time, and then output an ad break at 7:27.

But that would just mean the people expecting the local news at 7:27 will not only miss it, but they'll also miss that breaking news.
BA
bilky asko
Whataday posted:
anoilyrag posted:
Whataday posted:
anoilyrag posted:
Stage 2 national campaign begins tonight


'Stage 2 late' I'd call it.


Don't give up the day job


Sorry but it's absolutely true.


I think he's taking exception to the awful pun more than anything else.

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