Good Morning Britain - the launch

He probably records them on a week by week basis...

So what I am seeing from 6am is the output from TLS Studio 5, whilst after 9:25 it is ITV London?

He might do the days, Monday Tuesday etc then numbers 1-30 then they probably add them together to make it sound like one.

There was problem with graphics at 7am opening this morning. The presenter name tags (lower thirds) had some sort of lag while closing same type of lag when opening the Twitter, Facebook etc. Its resulted to it not showing.

Here's that break shot for anyone wanting to see it:

That would sound terrible, and is way too much work. Soon, probably this Friday, he'll record next weeks.

Don't know if this has been suggested before - but I'm sure most remember when ITV were piloting the integrated news hour back in 2011. Perhaps this would be a good format for the morning?

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/media/news/a340290/itv-to-pilot-integrated-6pm-news-hour.html#~oISEG60vquRd5e
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/sep/22/itn-pilots-revamped-itv1-news
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/sep/13/itv-6pm-news-new-format

Not suggesting that Good Morning Britain is cut - but a few years down the line - would a change in format (to make it more newsy) work?

I think the idea of the news hour was great - but I didn't like the idea of it clashing with BBC News at 6 - hence, I wonder if it would be good for breakfast television.

Perhaps they could do this sort of news hour from 6 - 7 like the GMTV and Daybreak MKII days... I personally think this has potential.

I'm not necessarily saying that ITV should definitely do this, but I am just suggesting.

Cue the angry TV Forumers...

Not that we've seen the format that they piloted but I very much doubt it would work.

A breakfast programme is very different to an evening news programme. It would probably work as well as the 6:30 bulletin at breakfast... It wouldn't.

The 'integrated' aspect of mixing regional and national news (which is the only thing we know about the evening pilot) is essentially what they do at breakfast anyway

Why wouldn't it work at breakfast? It may not but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't.

I knew someone would say that we essentially have it already! I disagree - we get a 3-4 minute summary of all the stories in our regions every 1/2 hour. That is not integrated very well. I think a more-regionalised breakfast show - with what is important to the viewers at its heart - would be really good. And I'll be the first to admit - regional news stories are consistently dull or insignificant - but some of those local stories really matter to people - they are the stories that affect people on a day-to-day level the most. I think the idea of this integrated news program is that it has a detailed, in-depth look at the important national stories, international stories, sport, weather, and an equally in-depth look at the regional stories - these reports would fill in every 15 minutes perhaps (with a bit of showbiz fluff - it is ITV!). I don't know exactly what ITV's plans were for this news hour - as you said - we have not seen the pilots. But I imagine it to be like how I described just there. And I think it would work.

*coughs* more like a 2 minute summary most of the time....

I was going to say that but thought the insiders would come after me...
You've said it now.

How do you think they do it for the speaking clock?

I don't know how it is done for Good Morning Britain, but I would question why they would be paying for a voice over artist to record every week for (potentially) years to come, when they could do the next ten years in one session. A professional voice over artist and a professional sound person can make it all match and seem seamless.