Brian Widlake RIP. Very underrated presenter/reporter, I remember him co-presenting BBC 2's Money Programme with Valerie Singleton Sunday nights in the 80s. It had a large audience by virtue of running 18:40... By Markymark 0 replies 217 views MA 2 JanMarkymark
ITV news 2008 I can assure you I'm entirely uninterested in the substance of what they have to say - but that's because of the style. I'll concede that in thsi particular case - maybe this was the wrong thread... 12 By TVViewer256 14 replies 1,696 views SK 5 Jan - 6 JanSkygeek
Look North North East & Cumbria Refresh The BBC suffered a great deal from a string of occasions where programmes (non news ones I might add) had been found to be making up competition winners, contributors and viewer/listener comments.... 12 By Jonny 21 replies 2,502 views DE 9 Jan - 11 Jandeejay
Northern Ireland Political Crisis Assembly Elections 2nd March 30-minute BBC Newsline at 1.30pm today, then a one-hour edition at 6.30pm to cover the passing of Martin McGuinness. Coincidentally, BBC One NI has an edition of its occasional 'Spotlight Special'... 123456 By Gareth E 70 replies 5,139 views GE 9 Jan - 21 MarGareth E
President Trump's Inauguaration coverage Good write up by Roger Mosey, former head of news at the BBC, on the coverage and he is quite critical of BBC1 not having their big names out there, especially as Emily Maitlis was there for Newsnight.... 1234...789 By Cardiffian 99 replies 7,124 views BR 10 Jan - 26 JanBrekkie
ITN News Channel Straight forward, no nonsense reporting. The America Decides programme in 2004 was a production for ITV1 that was simulcast on the ITV News Channel. I don't think it was necessarily that the existence of the ITV News Channel precipitated... 123 By cityprod 28 replies 1,997 views IT 12 Jan - 14 Janitsrobert
C-Span broadcast of the House of Representatives interrupted I agree it was likely a mistake but was incredibly weird how it happened and that they've never had a mistake like this before. I imagine if Russia were able to "get inside" and control the routing... By stuartfanning 4 replies 544 views RK 13 Jan - 16 JanRkolsen
Inside Out hence 'capability and resources' featuring in my post, it's one thing being technically able to do so, it's another having the staff who can/want to do so when it's easier to have a pre-set up ident... 12 By jolly turnip 12 replies 782 views MW 16 Jan - 18 JanMike W
Bloomberg HD Testing Free To Air on Astra 2 Satelite - 28.2e By bkman1990 1 reply 355 views RE 19 Janremlap
ITV Regional Political Programmes New Look Perhaps though it is the sort of show that benefits from being against similar opposition rather than something more appealing. 123 By RDJ 24 replies 2,723 views BR 19 Jan - 7 MarBrekkie
If ITV plc takes over ITN. Exactly. Similar to an Independent school. 123 By newsman1 29 replies 3,142 views DE 21 Jan - 29 Janderek500
Why did ITV not change the overnight news to match 99 look? I don't think we'll ever know for sure. My guess would be it had something to do with staffing costs. The shows that got the new look straight away in 1999 were all broadcast from Studio 1 and PCR1... By A former member 3 replies 743 views IT 26 Janitsrobert