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(February 2003)

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Lynda Bryans is from UTV Live

She and her husband Mike Nesbitt also used to do a Sunday morning religious programme on ITV
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A former member
To report on the news of Tony Blair having chest pains, during Heartbeat they went to a news update with Katie Derham, but since Katie has finished at ITV News, she has no more ITV1 or NC shifts left and Andrea Catherwood has the next bulletin, so why is Katie still there, two hours after her shift ended? How long does she hang around for?
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Square Eyes Founding member
Tim195 posted:
To report on the news of Tony Blair having chest pains, during Heartbeat they went to a news update with Katie Derham, but since Katie has finished at ITV News, she has no more ITV1 or NC shifts left and Andrea Catherwood has the next bulletin, so why is Katie still there, two hours after her shift ended? How long does she hang around for?

I missed this, did they interrupt Heartbeat or go to the news bulletin in the first break ?

Andrea is on the ITVNC this hour, so she couldn't have done it.
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Square Eyes posted:
Tim195 posted:
To report on the news of Tony Blair having chest pains, during Heartbeat they went to a news update with Katie Derham, but since Katie has finished at ITV News, she has no more ITV1 or NC shifts left and Andrea Catherwood has the next bulletin, so why is Katie still there, two hours after her shift ended? How long does she hang around for?

I missed this, did they interrupt Heartbeat or go to the news bulletin in the first break ?

Andrea is on the ITVNC this hour, so she couldn't have done it.


They went to Katie Derham during the first break, but I mean why is Katie still there two hours after she has finished?
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Andrew Founding member
They seem to be going through a lot of presenters today. I wonder why they got both Katie and Felicity in just to do one bulletin and no shifts on the News Channel, and then Andrea has appeared but only for a few hours.
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Lee M
Tim195 posted:
Square Eyes posted:
Tim195 posted:
To report on the news of Tony Blair having chest pains, during Heartbeat they went to a news update with Katie Derham, but since Katie has finished at ITV News, she has no more ITV1 or NC shifts left and Andrea Catherwood has the next bulletin, so why is Katie still there, two hours after her shift ended? How long does she hang around for?

I missed this, did they interrupt Heartbeat or go to the news bulletin in the first break ?

Andrea is on the ITVNC this hour, so she couldn't have done it.


They went to Katie Derham during the first break, but I mean why is Katie still there two hours after she has finished?


Presume she did it because it wasn't worth interrupting ITV NC's coverage to allow ITV1 to opt-in briefly, so the CSO set was used instead. Perhaps she was still in to prepare something for the Evening News tommorow or something.

BBC1 slipped in a news report just before Monarch of the Glen, replacing the junction that would have been their otherwise.
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Andrew posted:
They seem to be going through a lot of presenters today. I wonder why they got both Katie and Felicity in just to do one bulletin and no shifts on the News Channel, and then Andrea has appeared but only for a few hours.


Yes, I was thinking that. Usually Katie & Felicity both do shifts on the NC, I thought the only ITV1 anchor that didn’t was Trevor McDonald. I just don’t see what kept Katie there when Andrea was the ITV1 newsreader on that shift.
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Because during Heartbeat Andrea Catherwood is on the ITV News Channel and thus is unable to do an ITV one update, and as Katie's bulletin is at 6 then she is probably kept until 9.
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Andrew Founding member
And now Rachel McTavish has appeared!

So today we've got Katie Derham and Felicity Barr doing just 20 mins on air, Andrea Catherwood doing an hour and then 5 mins later on, Rachel McTavish, John Draper, Heather McCarthy, Jonathan Morrell and Steve Scott on the News Channel, all in one day!
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ohwhatanight Founding member
Has anyone noticed that the audio on the ITV news Summary on ITV1 and also throughout on the ITV News Channel has been of very poor quality?

It appears as if they have got a dodgy microphone on the presenters and is causing interference!

PS The 9pm rugby coverage which was promoted on ITV1 news bulletins was eventually broadcast at 10pm due to the Tony Blair 'palputations' saga.
For some reason ITV News Channel were showing the rugby coverage in 14 x 9 but not like the weather where they move the picture up the screen to allow the news ticker to flow without clashing with any weather graphics!
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Andrew Founding member
ohwhatanight posted:
PS The 9pm rugby coverage which was promoted on ITV1 news bulletins was eventually broadcast at 10pm due to the Tony Blair 'palputations' saga.
For some reason ITV News Channel were showing the rugby coverage in 14 x 9 but not like the weather where they move the picture up the screen to allow the news ticker to flow without clashing with any weather graphics!
Although they were advertising it as being on at 10pm throughout the day on the News Channel, it was originally so they could provide the live David Blaine coverage, but this was then dropped in favour of Blair's Health.
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Andrew Founding member
What have been the regular presenting patterns on the ITV News since the launch of this current look....

On the Lunchtime News it originally started off as John Suchet and Julia Somerville, then it became John Suchet and Kirsty Young, can anyone put a date to that change? then didn't it become John Suchet on his own then? and now it's Nicholas Owen on his own, when did he start doing this?

On the Evening News it was originally Trevor McDonald, then when it went double headed wasn't Dermot Murnaghan and Kirsty Young originally? then Katie Derham and then Mary Nightingale or was it the other way round?

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