ITV1 Nightscreen

Hey,

I was watching ITV1 Nightscreen the other day and was wondering why do ITV1 use this 'cheap' filler rather than relaying the ITV News Channel (Like BBC1 do with News 24).

Is it due to a licensing issue or do ITV1 consider Nightscreen a higher priority over news (or maybe just doesn't want to be seen as copying BBC1)?

Just wondered...
Thanks

The ITV News Channel isn't live at that hour of the morning.

OOOo0h.Did not no that. Is it recorded from "ITN Broom cupboard2? Or rec. from other studio?

On weekdays the NC usually runs a looped repeat of the 10.30 ITV1 bulletin between 1am and 5.30am.

Between midnight and 1am the 11.30pm bulletin is looped.

Wasn't there a day when TV ran all through the night on Scottish?

Seems pretty pointless having a news channel which doesn't stream for 24 hours (live)

But anyway thanks for letting me know, I was wondering why!
Thanks

Well I should imagine if a major story occurs they would break in with live rolling coverage, but to be honest how many people at 3am have a huge desire to watch ITV News?

lol, with what i've heard about it, not much.

...or at anytime of the day for that matter

I think the question should be why SHOULD they opt out for the News Channel? Good to see ITV staying loyal to Nightscreen, even if they won't improve the music.

Why is this "good"?

It's good that for all their faults, ITV at least recognise there's no point in showing programmes through all the night hours "because they can"; overnight advertising is never sold and programmes would almost certainly overrun, as they did pre-Nightscreen. Those who want the news channel can get it by changing channels.