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"Goodbye Granadaland" to air Sat 15th June (May 2013)

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SI
simon1970
dosxuk posted:
gottago posted:
dosxuk posted:
Studio A - Anglia House main studio - second largest of their facilities, used for virtually everything over the years. Was home to Trisha for several years, and is now the home of the two news studios (after being split)
How come they have two news studios? Surely only one is in use?


They moved News back to Anglia House when they disposed of the Magdelen Street site, and at that time they were still running fully split East / West bulletins, hence the studio was split in two. Don't know if both studios are still usable, or if one has been dismantled or just mothballed.


I had heard a lot of adverts were shot at the Anglia Studios, like Waitrose, can anyone confirm?
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bluecortina
dosxuk posted:
noggin posted:
dosxuk posted:

Anglia also had a sizeable OB fleet in the 80s / 90s, including at one point the only purpose built and permanent graphics truck, which was regularly used by other franchises to support their own OBs.


By the mid-90s they had merged with Thames's OB operation (and possibly YTVs?) I think to form "Global" which by the mid-00s had been bought by Visions. I think this was tied in, possibly, with the "Three on Four" ITV operation which provided Channel Four racing facilities, though I may be wrong.


All correct - the normal racing trucks were a scanner ex-Thames, VT truck ex-Yorkshire and Anglia's old capgen & links trucks. Global built a new scanner specifically for the racing in the mid 90s, which continued to do the same job until last year under Visions. All the other trucks carried on until the early 00s when Visions replaced them, although some equipment still has asset tags from their originating companies.


The dedicated graphics truck would regularly turn up at Kent House and be plumbed into LWT's C4 presentation suite (which was not in use in mid-week) to overlay graphics on the incoming feed.

I know that may seem a bit odd. I suspect the feed + graphics was then on passed to C4 for subsequent transmission. I know this for a fact, because I used to help 'plumb up' the graphics truck into KH's internal infrastructure. All a long time ago. A guy from Thames would also come over as the truck's liaison engineer.
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Inspector Sands
Seems an odd way of doing things, surely the point of having it in a truck is so it can go to the racecourse?
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bluecortina
Inspector Sands posted:
Seems an odd way of doing things, surely the point of having it in a truck is so it can go to the racecourse?


I agree with you, but it happened quite a lot. One day I will chat to the ex-Thames engineer at a 'do' and ask him to remind me why it was sometimes done that way. The only thing I can think of at the moment is maybe there was racing coverage at two events on the same day and only one graphics truck?
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dosxuk
bluecortina posted:
Inspector Sands posted:
Seems an odd way of doing things, surely the point of having it in a truck is so it can go to the racecourse?


I agree with you, but it happened quite a lot. One day I will chat to the ex-Thames engineer at a 'do' and ask him to remind me why it was sometimes done that way. The only thing I can think of at the moment is maybe there was racing coverage at two events on the same day and only one graphics truck?


In the Highflyer days this was always done with a main site and a second site which would have VT / Graphics done by the main site (which limited replay options significantly). The second site would often just be a small van taking the RaceTech feed with a single handheld for the course reporter, although there would sometimes be a tracking vehicle added (especially often at Doncaster).

The Graphics truck in those days also carried the tape library, and was often required at Highflyer's production base for updating the library and to work on packages for playout at the weekend.
NG
noggin Founding member
Inspector Sands posted:
Seems an odd way of doing things, surely the point of having it in a truck is so it can go to the racecourse?


I can see the sense in having it whereever your "hub" is. In some cases this might be a racecourse, in others it might be a studio centre. Probably a lot easier than rebuilding your graphics library on a hired in Cap Gen (assuming it was a standard platform - and it might not have been), or having graphics kit at each site contributing?
MU
Multi
Ikea...uhh!
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kernow
So I'm assuming that these original plans fell through then?

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/first-images-of-new-family-neighbourhood-684474
BR
Brekkie
ITV will be airing a documentary on the 15th June called "Goodbye Granadaland" - even though of course the official message is that ITV are far from saying goodbye to Granadaland!
WE
Westy2
Brekkie posted:
ITV will be airing a documentary on the 15th June called "Goodbye Granadaland" - even though of course the official message is that ITV are far from saying goodbye to Granadaland!


Assume regional, not networked, so does anyone have the current transponder details to get Granada on SKY outside the region?
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Andrew Founding member
When was the last time ITV in England ran a regional documentary?

Of course it's networked, it's a light doc hosted by Peter Kay apparently.
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kernow
Andrew posted:
When was the last time ITV in England ran a regional documentary?

Of course it's networked, it's a light doc hosted by Peter Kay apparently.

I actually seem to remember a regional programme being shown on Yorkshire (I think) quite recently (I think it was last year and shown after News at Ten), related to a news event, but can't remember what it was for though.

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