UTV Presentation Thread

Ah well

It was Paul Reid from 8pm

I say let's have cameras and dickey bows. And perhaps a shirt underneath...

Julian on duty again tonight at Havoc House - and he still refers to "ITN"!

Audra is on continuity/newsreading duty again today. Wonder if she is back to replace Lynda Fulford?

Hmm...could be! Lynda hasn't been around for a good few weeks and Audra has been back off and on now for a few weeks as well. Give me Audra any day!!

Just noticed on u.tv that the "UTV People" section of the website has disappeared, and any links to the individual pages from sites such as Wikipedia are broken. Hmmm...

And so, now that most of NI has gone back to work today, it's back to no live continuity during the day on UTV. Even though Robin Taylor is at Havoc House doing in-vision weather today with no evident reason why he can't double-up as a duty announcer, there's nothing but what appear to be pre-recorded ECPs with the voice of Gillian Porter to guide viewers through the afternoon.

Defies logic, really, but that's UTV for you.

More logic defiance on UTV tonight.

Julian Simmons did IVC into Emmerdale earlier, and it looks like it was done live, and without plugging the Watch 2 Win question, while Gillian Porter is doing ECPs, which may or may not be live, and no doubt will be reading the late news.

Is there an actual point to having Julian around tonight if Gillian is also there and doing the same shift? Why let one announcer do the programme intro while another does the outro?

Never mind the fact another CA was in earlier to do only the weather forecasts - and made a funny comment on Scotsmen going out in kilts tomorrow night.

I can't believe UTV have still got people doubling up as announcers one minute, newsreaders the next and weather presenters the next, most other ITV regions stopped that sort of multi tasking 15 years ago.

Some of them I dunno if Yorkshire still do it now but a while back during calendar or the weather they would have a promo for an regional programme with one of the Calendar News presenters doing the voice over.

UTV have changed idents today - a mix of the Christmas idents (jingle, white background) and regular idents (NI scenery with ID tag) with the legend "Happy New Year to U" at the bottom.

EDIT: There's also a matching break bumper.