This Morning axed!

The Granada Building is certainly still in operation. If you've ever phoned Granada TV you'll be well aware of that, you're flicked between Manchester and Liverpool like nobody's business.

Granada used to have all of their news operation based in the converted traffic centre - it was a traffic centre, wasn't it? - until they realised it made a hell of a lot more sense to do it from Manchester, it was actually quite unique for a TV station to be so widely spread in terms of output. Having your main operations in one city and your news output coming from another isn't exactly commonly seen.

Granada have operations in Manchester, Liverpool, Chester, Blackburn and there's some more around the North West.

Merseyside will have a camera crew and TV reporter assigned to it so I wouldn't doubt if the NWT interviews do come from Paradise Street.

As far as I remember someone saying yes... something to do with that sort of thing at least...




Yeah, I know many people say North West Tonight is very Manchester-centric and Granada is still more pan-North West and more Liverpool based even now. Coming from the Wirral, you definitely seem to get more news from there on Granada than on NWT.



I think they do... but I thought I had heard that BBC Merseyside were going to be moving to a new building soon(ish)... I maybe wrong - but it's a smallish place they are in at the moment but they still manage to produce the most listened to local radio station around.

[quote] DWT on 6:29 pm on Dec. 27, 2001


No, that's round the corner. Probably uses the old offices but not the studio

The left hand (looking outwards) part of the old studio is empty, the right hand is a bar. The map is still there.

The weathermap was still there last summer. Had the little place models up as well.

The Granada building there still appears to be Granada, and there are still parking place signs for This Morning people (gaffa taped over, but some have fallen off). No sign of any studios at the Albert dock anymore though.

(Edited by Pete Davis at 12:10 am on Dec. 28, 2001)

This Morning started in the second year of daytime TV.

In 1987 there was a combination of The Time The Place, Santa Barbera, Kids programmes (including Rainbow etc) between 10:00 and 12:30

God Santa Barabra... In one episode it was the same time 10.04 throughout the episode. An earthquake started and all the cast were covered in rumble.... No Amercian naffness ITV1 please!

I'd say snatch Lorraine Kelly from Sky and have Lorriane Live mid morning, she's cool!

As someone has already said, The old This Morning studio is now half empty and half used by the new Pan American bar.
Fred's weather map is still there, but hasn't been used since the end of the last series.
The Granada offices at the entrance to the Albert Dock are still occupied. They house the main studios for Shop! and the Liverpool news room. There are also news centres in Chester, Blackburn and Lancaster and the main newsroom in Manchester.
BBC Liverpool do have a remote studio based at Radio Merseyside on Paradise Street. AFAIK, there are plans to redevelop the area and possibly create a new media centre to which the Beeb could move into. But it's still early days.

Andy

What happened to the warehouse-style BBC TV studios in Liverpool? they opened them years ago, but the only programme I remember from there was the kids show 'On The Waterfront'

this morning is rubbish now. with richard and judy it was ok.
daytime tv is so boring there can be only one thing that can save
ITV1...

the test card!