The Newsroom

ITN at Gray's Inn Road

(July 2005)

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mike stand posted:
nwtv2003 posted:
Adam posted:
Well, I belive the London Tonight studio may actually be on the ground floor (as during the 1996-9 era you could see cars going past on ITN News bulletins). So Channel 4 would be on 'Lower Ground Floor' perhaps? ITV News is currently in the basement. ITV Network Centre is situated there (I couldn't tell you if ITV Plc. is). Reuters and IRN are there as well, and I assume a few other tennants.


ITV Network Centre is based at Grays Inn Road, ITV Plc is based at The London Studios.

I mentioned this the other day in the ITV London News thread, but what studio does the Weather come from? As I was watching London Today at Lunchtime and noticed that Chrissie was in the LT studio, fifteen seconds later she comes into the Normal Weather studio + graphics.

Also a couple of other things? What is based in the 1999-2004 ITV News studio? As the last I heard it was 'The Breifing'/ virtual graphics room. And what comes from the defunct Five News studio?


As for your weather question, very often if Martin is presenting the national forecast, he will do it from the Meridian studios at Whiteley in Hampshire and send it up to ITV TX playout on the South Bank which is where the top and tail sponsor tags are played out from. Yes, amazing as it is, ITV TX still have a hold on the sponsor of all programmes, and where possible, will play it out as a stand alone item.


I think he's mainly talking about the London Tonight situation though. Every day the presenter on duty (usually Chrissie) will talk to the LT presenters and then after the sponsor walk onto the weather set. I've thought that there must be a coner of the studio now with weather screens, machinery etc, as I assume the forecast is always broadcast live.
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JosephB
If you walk into the ITN Building, you go into reception, and then continue forward and if you walk far enough then right a bit you'll find yourself at the ITV Newsroom. go right a bit further you'll find yourself at the London Tonight Studio. If you go back a bit, and go into the newsroom, then walk to the back of the newsroom, turn right and walk along a corridor, effectively behind the LT studio, then go down 2 floors (I think its 2) then youll find yourself pretty close to the ITV News Studio. The Channel 4 news studio is on the floor below the ground floor, and is in the right hand side of the building, with the back of the studio facing into the "courtyard" as I can best put it. Bottom floor in the middle there's a cafe.
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Are the public allowed to go into the ITN building? Im staying near Grays Inn Road just now.
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JosephB
Not usually, but a friend of a friend happened to be Robin Elias and he gave me a guided tour. Very Happy

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