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Good Morning Britain - the launch

(April 2014)

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STV Today
Cando posted:
The two reviewers on the Richard bacon show were totally right when they told Helen Warner that it was a frantic mess of a show. People who want actual news aren't going to watch a programme who treats Robbie Williams getting a woman pregnant as news.


Exactly... anyone that want actual news is going to tune into Breakfast or Sunrise. Good Morning Britain isn't going for the Newsnight audience - they're going along the lines of we'll tell you want you want to know as opposed to what you need to know. I don't care for the tabloids but you can't deny that they know their audience very well and Good Morning Britain has judged the kind of things that would make the front pages of The Sun and presented them to their viewers.

We can all get very excited about how its not got enough 'hard news' but there's already outlets for that - Good Morning Britain is at least trying something a bit different. There's things they need to lose and over time the programme will evolve to lose the crap that is obvious isn't working (I hope!) Let's just be excited that this is genuinely the first attempt at changing the dynamic of a morning show on ITV in many years. It might not work - but let's give it more than a week.

I like Andi Peters but let's lose the wheel of cash - especially when the prizes are so underwhelming to create any buzz. And stop linking to Lorraine - by all means preview but I don't think a direct link is of any benefit especially when it just goes straight to an ad break anyway.


Completely agree with that - the hard news followers won't be attracted to GMB - fluff and some news seems ITV breakfast's bag and it does offer something different.

I tend to move between STV and BBC One in the mornings anyway.

All in all much to like yet room for improvement - Charlotte could be used more and I have to say I did like Susanna's technique when interviewing Gove yesterday.

Don't have any link but I also see Lorraine Kelly has included a comment about all the excitement over 'the Ferrari' in her Sun column today.
NG
noggin Founding member
UTV revamped their Daybreak studio for GMB ( noticed it hadn't been posted).
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It looks like there is no station DOG then - is there still an itv DOG shown the rest of the time in Northern Ireland? The last time I checked, the DOG changed from itv to UTV at 9:25.


Presumably between 0600 and 0925 the station is ITV (as they own the ITV Breakfast franchise) - and UTV's inserts are commissioned by ITV plc for ITV Breakfast and are part of ITV Breakfast, not separate UTV broadcasts.
HB
HarryB
I had thought that the news summaries for Lorraine was done by Susanna from when I watched on Monday. But all done by the newsreader alternating around.

Susanna on Monday & Friday
Charlotte on Tuesday
Ben on Wednesday
Sean on Thursday
BR
Brekkie
I don't really get why they keep the 9am summary. Would probably be better IMO for GMB to run a few minutes longer and have a news summary at 8.30 and then cut to Lorraine around 8.35/8.40, which then runs without news.
IS
Inspector Sands
Presumably between 0600 and 0925 the station is ITV (as they own the ITV Breakfast franchise) - and UTV's inserts are commissioned by ITV plc for ITV Breakfast and are part of ITV Breakfast, not separate UTV broadcasts.

I thought that the breakfast local news in Northern Ireland was taken away from UTV and done by someone else?
JO
Jon
Presumably between 0600 and 0925 the station is ITV (as they own the ITV Breakfast franchise) - and UTV's inserts are commissioned by ITV plc for ITV Breakfast and are part of ITV Breakfast, not separate UTV broadcasts.

I thought that the breakfast local news in Northern Ireland was taken away from UTV and done by someone else?

And in Scotland, the contracts returned to STV and UTV about the same time they started to patch up their other problems.
GM
Gary McEwan
Jon posted:
Presumably between 0600 and 0925 the station is ITV (as they own the ITV Breakfast franchise) - and UTV's inserts are commissioned by ITV plc for ITV Breakfast and are part of ITV Breakfast, not separate UTV broadcasts.

I thought that the breakfast local news in Northern Ireland was taken away from UTV and done by someone else?

And in Scotland, the contracts returned to STV and UTV about the same time they started to patch up their other problems.


Macmillan Media had both the UTV and STV contracts for several years. MacMillan did UTV for a couple of years before getting STV...
Last edited by Gary McEwan on 3 May 2014 7:09pm
AN
Andrew Founding member
Reuters did the Northern Ireland news from way back in 1994ish though, from when GMTV and UTV had that spat in its first few months on air.
CF
CatsFast101
Macmillian took over UTV doing. Northern Ireland local news not long into GMTV's run, they then took over from STV a while after I thinking it was more like 2005ish rather than the 90's like UTV. Both STV & UTV regained the contracts when itv breakfast launched after itv acquired GMTV.
DK
DanielK
A believable quote, IMO, from Wikipedia...

Quote:
In January 1995, GMTV contracted the service out to Reuters, who then provided the GMTV national news service. The service was produced by ITN from March 2000. Macmillan Media, a company founded by former ITN and BBC correspondent Michael Macmillan, won the contract to provide news bulletins in 2005.

Macmillan Media took over from STV as the regional breakfast news provider in the Central Scotland and Northern Scotland regions in 2007.[1]

The Daybreak Northern Ireland service by Macmillan Media ended on Friday 21 December 2012, with UTV resuming production of the breakfast news opt-outs from January 2013 onwards.
:-(
A former member
It was because UTV opted one morning.

From UTV live news wiki page
Quote:
Between 1995 and January 2013, UTV Live bulletins were not transmitted during GMTV and Daybreak (ITV Breakfast);[1] The breakfast service was previously produced by Reuters, ITN, and subsequently Macmillan Media, following a dispute in 1994 when UTV opted out of GMTV to provide extra coverage of the Combined Loyalist ceasefire
SC
scottishtv Founding member
I recall it was discussed in this thread. UTV were effectively broadcasting illegally, and GMTV took a very dim view.

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