When is Owen Thomas's late night bulletin done for the first time live, you know the one he starts with "Hello Again". Is it from 11pm, 11.30pm or 12am?
With the lack of name captions, live continuity announcer or loud voiceover, he said said "Good Morning I'm Owen Thomas" on the Morning News yesterday morning. Last week people probably wouldn't have known Rachel McTavish's name
When is Owen Thomas's late night bulletin done for the first time live, you know the one he starts with "Hello Again". Is it from 11pm, 11.30pm or 12am?
11.30pm
It's a bit like the Morning News really - live for 30 minutes, then repeated twice in the next hour
I guess he can't record a whole hour from 11, because of the late start after the ITV1 news.
Also, the 11pm-11.30pm slot is filled on Mondays with a Tonight repeat and PMQs on Wednesdays.
For the same reason you get the Greenwich Mean Time - extended and mixed with groovy bustin' beats at all sorts of times throughout the day on many many channels across the world - on the BBC. It's a musical symbol extravaganza
The NC has potential but as long as it keeps sticking presenters in broom cupboards at important times of the day, it will not build substantially on it's audience. It has some of the best presenters and reporters around and their talent should be taken advantage of, so to speak.
It's a simple matter of viewing figures I'm afraid - ITV1 news programmes get audiences in the millions (ITV Evening News typically gets around 4.8-5.3 million viewers), whilst ITV News Channel audiences are of course much, much smaller, often numbering in the tens of thousands.
So naturally ITV is going to provide the ITV1 programmes with time and facilities at the expense of the News Channel. Sadly there currently just isn't the budget available to provide a 'full-on' version of the News Channel all of the time.
ITN could really do with more than just a fixed camera in the Westminster office.
They're doing the usual PMQs post-mortem, but the three political correspondents (Libby Weiner, Tyne Tees' man and "Carlton's" Peter Hayes) have to be in three locations in Westminster (College Green, Millbank and the palace of Westminster)