UTV rebrand

That is actually just Julian's over indulgence with the fake tan.

Ident Central website had the relaunch scheduled for today, so they got their date wrong. They have not changed it.

So? Everyone makes mistakes.

This forum claims it was today aswell!

The first broadcast from City Quays 2 will be this Sunday evening.

Just a shame they weren't able to get a location within the building to have a real view. How do they film the backdrops for the 5 screens - is it one (panoramic?) edited to the 5 screens or is it a case of 5 cameras, one for each screen, positioned in a way to accurately reflect the view.

What is a shame is that a few years on from the first studio with the screens (was the Wales?) is they've not modified it as they've gone on to try and reduce the black space, or looked more at alternative options such as a window view or a newsroom view. Granada has the luxury of both.

West Country (east)'s 3-sided view of the Avon Gorge definately doesn't reflect reality. The vantage point for that particular view of the Clifton Suspension Bridge, the view either side of you isn't what the "side windows" show (although they're both views from nearby, in the vicinity of the Avon Gorge). Not sure whether similar is true of the River Tamar view used on West Country (west)?

Given what's perpendicular to that bridge-view vantage point in reality, I can understand why they've done this. (Otherwise, the two side views would look pitch black in the night-time version, due to lack of illumination sources).

As far as I can fathom, Central's views of Birmingham and Nottingham are true to 3-sided reality.

So, there's clearly a mixture of "true to life" and "false construct" 3-sided views across the various ITV plc regions/sub-regions.

People make mistakes. It happens. However, I had more important things to do yesterday, so it wasn't changed on the website. It has been now.

In Cardiff, I'm not too sure that the Principality Stadium is this visible from the location purported in the rest of the backdrop:

http://news.images.itv.com/image/file/487851/stream_img.jpg

I actually can't look at those regional sets for too long without the black bars aggravating my pres-OCD.

I wonder if In Vision Announcers will be returning.

Why would they return?