Central, Yorkshire, Granada, Border and Tyne Tees are broadcast from Leeds. They broadcasts the local ads, local programmes directly from Leeds but the rest of the time Leeds just sends the London feed to the regions.
Hi, I'm new on this forum. I know a guy who used to work at YTV as a freelance announcer. He told me that all ITV is fed from London, however Leeds acts as a back-up playout centre in case of line-failure. In the same way that Birmingham acts (or used to act as a back up to TV Centre for the Beeb). Also Leeds continues to feed YTV, Granada, Tyne Tees and Border with capacity to add in SMG stations or UTV if they ever sell-out to ITV plc. I asked him again where Central was fed from and he thought it was London.
Welcome, Bilsdale
Hope Orry answered your question above. Central was broadcast from Birmingham until last year, when it started being broadcast from Leeds along with the former GMG regions.
Fat Boy Man U fan & 'Mrs Frizzell' came on a few mins early, due to 'technical difficulties', but they managed to witter on until 7.02 !
When they returned from the opt out, Fiona started to interview someone, but here in the Central region, the screen went blank, interspersed with random still images, before the Central News presenter popped back on, then after a few seconds, she started reading the news again, even managing to get most of the weather, before rejoining London, who were none the wiser.
Checking the SKY feeds, it looks like another Leeds problem, as London (Sky 963) was ok, but other Leeds regions were experiencing problems too!(Blue screen on Granada, the same newsreader sitting in silence on YTV/TT land, but I think Border was OK (How come?))
Fat Boy Man U fan & 'Mrs Frizzell' came on a few mins early, due to 'technical difficulties', but they managed to witter on until 7.02 !
When they returned from the opt out, Fiona started to interview someone, but here in the Central region, the screen went blank, interspersed with random still images, before the Central News presenter popped back on, then after a few seconds, she started reading the news again, even managing to get most of the weather, before rejoining London, who were none the wiser.
Checking the SKY feeds, it looks like another Leeds problem, as London (Sky 963) was ok, but other Leeds regions were experiencing problems too!(Blue screen on Granada, the same newsreader sitting in silence on YTV/TT land, but I think Border was OK (How come?))
Why did they have to take our lovely Central feed off to Leeds, why couldn't they have just left it how it was in it's old nice, always functioning self.
Though maybe in a few years everybody will receive the feed from London with only regional opt outs coming from Leeds, we can only hope!
Leeds has been regularly falling apart like this since September 1993. Most of us in the North gave up any hope of them becoming a competent pres department many years ago. I thought we were at last shot of the curse of YTV when continuity moved to London but alas, it wasn't to be.
Still, it gives some entertainment every so often eh?
The irony is that YTV had been very professional up to that date....
My dream is that London needs to be closed for a couple of days some time in the future. Then the entire country will be able to relive the good old days of Channel 3 North East-era spectacular continuity, complete with entire program halves being shown at the wrong time and the rest of it (mwah hah hah).
Leeds has been regularly falling apart like this since September 1993. Most of us in the North gave up any hope of them becoming a competent pres department many years ago. I thought we were at last shot of the curse of YTV when continuity moved to London but alas, it wasn't to be.
Still, it gives some entertainment every so often eh?
The irony is that YTV had been very professional up to that date....
You'd have thought that they would have looked at the way Leeds and Birmingham handled things before ending it.
Even though it's strictly in the midlands I can't understand why they didn't choose Birmingham instead of Leeds, and simply have Leeds as a production site. And didn't Birmingham also have a system upgrade that could have dealt with everything.
When they returned from the opt out, Fiona started to interview someone, but here in the Central region, the screen went blank, interspersed with random still images, before the Central News presenter popped back on, then after a few seconds, she started reading the news again, even managing to get most of the weather, before rejoining London, who were none the wiser.
Checking the SKY feeds, it looks like another Leeds problem, as London (Sky 963) was ok, but other Leeds regions were experiencing problems too!(Blue screen on Granada, the same newsreader sitting in silence on YTV/TT land, but I think Border was OK (How come?))
I was told about this, but didn't see it myself (I'd hit the 'snooze' button, as per usual!). I am told that in Tyne Tees land we cut to Mark Warr in the news studio and him (or someone else) turning out the light, before cutting back to London).
> Even though it's strictly in the midlands I can't understand why they didn't choose Birmingham instead of Leeds, and simply have Leeds as a production site. And didn't Birmingham also have a system upgrade that could have dealt with everything.
Because Leeds has had an enormous amount of money poured into it over the years (one estimate I've read suggests that it actually has cost more than the projected costs of keeping Manchester, Newcastle and Carlisle open over the time), and Leeds is seen to have a lot of "experience" (hah!!) of running the continuity for multiple stations.
> Even though it's strictly in the midlands I can't understand why they didn't choose Birmingham instead of Leeds, and simply have Leeds as a production site. And didn't Birmingham also have a system upgrade that could have dealt with everything.
Because Leeds has had an enormous amount of money poured into it over the years (one estimate I've read suggests that it actually has cost more than the projected costs of keeping Manchester, Newcastle and Carlisle open over the time), and Leeds is seen to have a lot of "experience" (hah!!) of running the continuity for multiple stations.
although when you think about the differences between ytv and tttv sometimes (ie a couple of years ago - shared regional programming, synchronised schedule) - were almost as different as central west was from central south or east. central had completely seperate news (until recently), some peak time regional shows were sub-regional and of course seperate adverts.
admittedly sub-regional idents weren't *that* regular - but birmingham were pretty good at what they did. breakdowns and glitches were very very rare. a couple of years ago, before national continuity, when there was a fire alarm in gas st, the only way we (on this forum) were able to spot the fact something was up were the clean idents and central east appearing on west.
After attempting to update/reinvent the wheel (idents, presentation, etc), itv[1] seems to have forgotten the essential little things ("next... then... later...").
