They had a great breakfast programme with Andrew Harvey & Lucy Alexander - was pretty much the only option for straight no-nonsense news at the time. Wasn’t a fan of Scott Chisholm.
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The one hour in that schedule with Joyce Ohajah... was that hour usually the secondary presenter of that night’s Channel 4 News? I remember than being the case when it was ITN but didn’t think it continued over to ITV News.
Quite remarkable looking at that schedule, how much more live news on offer than the BBC does on its news channel today.
We’ve discussed here in the past that the Breakfast license covered ITV1, ITV2 (maybe ITV3 too, but the hours were returned to ITV? But that’s a discussion for another thread). Was there any obligation to hand over the first few hours to GMTV?
On Freeview only (presumably because of some licensing quirk) between 6-9:25 the channel was quite pointlessly replaced with a GMTV slide redirecting people to channel 3 before crashing into the news channel at 9.25. I don't know why they didn't just have a simulcast of GMTV.
The one hour in that schedule with Joyce Ohajah... was that hour usually the secondary presenter of that night’s Channel 4 News? I remember than being the case when it was ITN but didn’t think it continued over to ITV News.
Don’t recall any C4 talent or C4 packages being used on the ITVNC. You would get the ITV London presenters though.
The one hour in that schedule with Joyce Ohajah... was that hour usually the secondary presenter of that night’s Channel 4 News? I remember than being the case when it was ITN but didn’t think it continued over to ITV News.
Don’t recall any C4 talent or C4 packages being used on the ITVNC. You would get the ITV London presenters though.
ITV News Channel was pretty good at weekends, especially during the afternoons with proper rolling news, at a time when BBC News 24 was just airing half hour bulletins followed by half hour recorded material.
ITV News Channel overnight offering was pretty dire, rightly so as the audience for that time would have been minute, but the back to back repeats of the 10.30pm bulletin was not right for their overnight news.
I always preferred it when they simply replayed the midnight hour of news, and had live news summaries at the top and bottom of the hour.
It was a shame they didn't have their own dedicated studio, as they always had to be kicked out around an hour or so before each ITV national bulletin, in order to allow rehearsal time.
When they moved into Studio 1, you could see it was the other studio, with the big giveaway being the lack of reflection on the glass top desk and the much brighter desk than the one used in Studio 2.
The one hour in that schedule with Joyce Ohajah... was that hour usually the secondary presenter of that night’s Channel 4 News? I remember than being the case when it was ITN but didn’t think it continued over to ITV News.
Don’t recall any C4 talent or C4 packages being used on the ITVNC. You would get the ITV London presenters though.
And a simulcast of the London late bulletin.
Indeed! The regional bulletins used to sit within the 12:30 & 22:30 network bulletins during that era, so London bulletins shown during simulcasts of the network. Pretty sure the late London presenter then carried on from 23:00 on the NC.
The one hour in that schedule with Joyce Ohajah... was that hour usually the secondary presenter of that night’s Channel 4 News? I remember than being the case when it was ITN but didn’t think it continued over to ITV News.
I thought Felicity and Steve usually did the 2pm hour, returning at 4pm after an hour of the Evening News presenters at 3pm.
The one hour in that schedule with Joyce Ohajah... was that hour usually the secondary presenter of that night’s Channel 4 News? I remember than being the case when it was ITN but didn’t think it continued over to ITV News.
I thought Felicity and Steve usually did the 2pm hour, returning at 4pm after an hour of the Evening News presenters at 3pm.
Yes, maybe I'm wrong but I always thought Joyce Ohajah was on evenings. I definitely remember her presenting the "ITV News Network" that used to come from Studio 4 (London Tonight set) at 9.30pm before News at Ten.
She was mainly evenings. She did the late London Tonight bulletin for most of that era.
Leyla Daybelge was the main early afternoon presenter. Pretty sure she’d present London Today and then continue on the news channel.
@ Brekkie - I don’t recall Felicity Barr doing 2pm. She’d be on from 4pm and then did the sports report during the 22:30 bulletin. Steve Scott might have done 2pm with Leyla Daybelge.