When he used to go out, which he doens't any more. Everything else is pre-recd and Gerry Meets can be recorded at night with rehearsals during the day. Even then most of the Kelly technical staff were working UTV Live so it was a straight switch and kelly rehearsals took place on the thur and fri.
Even with the two studios, the gallery can switch studios almost instantly so rehearsing from the other studio can run close to transmission.
I don't know why they're making a big fuss on it, they re-built their OB set up a while back to the cost of more than this and it didn't get a mention
I never realised until now that UTV Live came from Studio 2 so I have a few questions.
1) I take it Studio 1 is much bigger than Studio 2 if it was able to house the audience seating as well?
2) Since when did Insight have a set? Or do they mean it will have for the new series?
3) Will the Studio 1 makeover be a BBC News jobby where they'll create one set which can be adapted and used for all three programmes: UTV Live, Insight and this new programme they refer to?
3) Will the Studio 1 makeover be a BBC News jobby where they'll create one set which can be adapted and used for all three programmes: UTV Live, Insight and this new programme they refer to?
I'm intrigued now!
It'll certainly not be a "BBC News jobby" if they're only spending £250K.
3) Will the Studio 1 makeover be a BBC News jobby where they'll create one set which can be adapted and used for all three programmes: UTV Live, Insight and this new programme they refer to?
I'm intrigued now!
It'll certainly not be a "BBC News jobby" if they're only spending £250K.
StevieB:
"1) I take it Studio 1 is much bigger than Studio 2 if it was able to house the audience seating as well?"
Yes, Studio 1 is the larger studio, the original studio at Havelock House. Studio 2 was opened c.1964. Up until around 1993, the main news came from Studio 1 and Kelly came from Studio 2 (in the era where most of the audience sat in a double-decker layout of seats on two levels), and they then swapped around.
"2) Since when did Insight have a set? Or do they mean it will have for the new series?"
Insight has had occasional sets for whenever it's been studio-based, in 2001 it was a set with lots of wooden panels that doubled up as UTV's 2001 Election studio. Before that, Insight's predecessor Counterpoint tended to be studio-based, using a corner of the Six Tonight studio, and from 1993 to c.1995, it came from the UTV Live set using the "video cubes" and panels covering up the other parts of the studio.
What is it with Aidan Browne anyway? Surely someone with his experience would have got passed the stiff-as-a-board, "rabbit in the headlights" stage? He looks terrified in those pics.
Hmm, 10 years of continuity at Havelock House and the only thing that has changed is an announcer shaving off a moustache.
Well, maybe, maybe not.
I'm sure I've heard a new voice over some of their trails recently.
You have. It's the same voice on the UTV Internet/UTV Talk ads I think. An almost English sounding male voice.
It's most likely a freelancer as they're not allowed to have UTV presenters voice commercial trails, they can get away with voicers for a furniture company but when it comes to a companies own commercial service that is advertised in the ad breaks that's a big no no