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An idea to improve Channel 4's breakfast schedule

ITN Breakfast News (December 2008)

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Brekkie
That's what Wiki says, and planet24.co.uk now redirects to itv.com

IMDB has their last production as 2004 - "Can you Pull?", though I'm sure I've seen them do something else since then.
PT
Put The Telly On
I'm guessing Bob Geldof sold Planet 24 to Carlton then? (I bet thats old news but just to make sure)
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McMahon
Well, it might be a good vehicle for ITN to produce, and to pay alongside Channel 4. Or split the purchase of a breakfast show to one, or more, media outlets e.g. newspapers. Because it might just actually be a huge success [or a failure as you lot point out].
It would make me watch. Actual news, instead of the dross of GMTV, and for C4 to rival BBC Breakfast. And the ITV Morning News could 'advertise' it when the programme ends..."Switch over to Channel 4 for ITN Breakfast News" instead of "GMTV is next". GMTV has nothing to do with ITN apart from occasionally sharing material !
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itsrobert Founding member
McMahon posted:
Well, it might be a good vehicle for ITN to produce, and to pay alongside Channel 4. Or split the purchase of a breakfast show to one, or more, media outlets e.g. newspapers. Because it might just actually be a huge success [or a failure as you lot point out].
It would make me watch. Actual news, instead of the dross of GMTV, and for C4 to rival BBC Breakfast. And the ITV Morning News could 'advertise' it when the programme ends..."Switch over to Channel 4 for ITN Breakfast News" instead of "GMTV is next". GMTV has nothing to do with ITN apart from occasionally sharing material !


I think you're blurring the distinction between ITN/ITV/GMTV/Channel 4 there. ITN has no connection to anything really - ITV and Channel 4 are their clients. So the Morning News is ITV's and thus they are not going to promote a programme on Channel 4, regardless of whether ITN produce it or not. They promote GMTV at the end of the Morning News because they want to keep people tuned to their channel, not hand the viewers to the opposition.
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nwtv2003
itsrobert posted:
McMahon posted:
Well, it might be a good vehicle for ITN to produce, and to pay alongside Channel 4. Or split the purchase of a breakfast show to one, or more, media outlets e.g. newspapers. Because it might just actually be a huge success [or a failure as you lot point out].
It would make me watch. Actual news, instead of the dross of GMTV, and for C4 to rival BBC Breakfast. And the ITV Morning News could 'advertise' it when the programme ends..."Switch over to Channel 4 for ITN Breakfast News" instead of "GMTV is next". GMTV has nothing to do with ITN apart from occasionally sharing material !


I think you're blurring the distinction between ITN/ITV/GMTV/Channel 4 there. ITN has no connection to anything really - ITV and Channel 4 are their clients. So the Morning News is ITV's and thus they are not going to promote a programme on Channel 4, regardless of whether ITN produce it or not. They promote GMTV at the end of the Morning News because they want to keep people tuned to their channel, not hand the viewers to the opposition.


Indeed gone are the days when ITN would tell you to switch to Channel 4 for the next news bulletin from them, or when ITN would promote The Channel Four Daily rather than TV-am and Good Morning Britain. Don't forget ITV own 40% of ITN, so they have alot of input into what they produce.

ITN is now a Production company, not simply another ITV owned operation like it used to be.
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Inspector Sands
nok32uk posted:
I'm guessing Bob Geldof sold Planet 24 to Carlton then? (I bet thats old news but just to make sure)


It's very old news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/the_company_file/294195.stm
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Put The Telly On
Inspector Sands posted:
nok32uk posted:
I'm guessing Bob Geldof sold Planet 24 to Carlton then? (I bet thats old news but just to make sure)


It's very old news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/the_company_file/294195.stm


Well it's not quite 10 year old news Razz
ST
stevek2
you may have a problem with a live backdrop of the London Eye

you would be facing into the sun Confused

that was the problem with the One Show Pilot, the window was south-west facing so they had to blank off one side of the from the setting sun

most views whether a CGI backdrop from a camera or an actual window tend to be facing north for this reason

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