sorry for the daily mail article, but ITV has a lot to explain for keeping this presenter on air when he was clearly unwell
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Thatâs very bad form⌠surely there was someone in the newsroom who could have taken over? The London news is done from the same studio with a different presenter - so they will have been around if no one else. Or a reporter could have stepped in, for whatever reason the London presenter isnât deemed good enough for national news.
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There was a senior reporter in the studio who also regularly presents national bulletins that could have been used. Itâs very easy to judge from outside - we donât know what was going on behind the scenes. They may have been trying to get Rageh off air and him insisting he was fine, so they probably should have got ITV to pull the bulletin off air.
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Who? Paul Brand? I wasnât watching so donât know.
Brekkie, Iâm sure you donât mean it that way, but this sounds a bit sanctimonious. Weâve established now that at least two people who can present were around. Whatever was going on behind the scenes, if a presenter is visibly struggling to get through a bulletin, surely itâs good practice to do something about it?
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In an ideal world, of course. But having managed many people in my time, almost nothing happens at the speed at which people would like them to.
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Chris Ship was in the studio.
And I donât think Iâm the one being sanctimonious here - the opposite if anything. There is the right thing to do in these situations but sometimes in the moment people donât have a clear enough head to do the right thing, or convince themselves the situation isnât as serious as it might be as they donât want it to be. Itâs always far easier to see what the right thing to do is watching on or in hindsight than when youâre in the moment and in a state of panic or denial.
I think in these situations itâs easy to send accusations in the direction of ITV bosses and his colleagues without knowing the full facts and remembering they are all human at the end of the day and were dealing with a real situation involving a friend and colleague. Iâm sure theyâre probably beating themselves up enough about whether they should have done more sooner without strangers online joining in.
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I think those are screens covering up the newsroom⌠if you look at the edges on the right you can just make out someone sat at a desk.
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Looks like MCR as the background
It is and it isnât⌠itâs the same backdrop used in the virtual studio, which is, as you point out, a replica of MCR.
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When is this set used?
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Itâs been used for the lunchtime news all this week, and also for some online stuff.
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It was built for their ITVX content - headlines, visual podcasts and PMQs mainly, replacing a sofa set previously used. The presumption is this week during the day election rehearsals are taking place in the main studio so the Lunchtime News has been relocated.
I quite like the set personally - doesnât feel out of place used alongside the main set and putting the backdrop screen behind a glass screen actually makes it feel more real than the virtual set.
Would be a good starting point for an upgrade of the regions - though feel like although itâs aged very well weâre probably due a refresh. Itâs coming up to 12 years of this look now - in the 12 years prior the ITV News had had 6 different looks!
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surprised it hasnât relaunched yet with the rest of the network back in 2022
Yes, was surprising they didnât at least have a mini-refresh that day considering the relaunched have aligned with the ITV(1) relaunches since 2004.
They donât need to do much - the same but different would be fine.
What happened to the itvx news FAST channel they announced?
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Itâs not a FAST channel but a section within ITVX. Itâs pretty decent to be fair - regularly updated headlines, individual stories, regular âpodcastsâ such as a daily politics show and weekly royal show, a daily bulletin for teenagers, pop up live streams when required and local news too.
Actually far better than what the BBC offer nowadays - they used to offer on demand headlines and stories when they had the dedicated smart TV BBC News app but once it was folded into the iPlayer that content vanished.
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Wow. I live in London and work In media and I had no idea it existed
Iâve never heard any promotion marketing press or publi CT t about it
Not one thing
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If you use ITVX itâs quite prominent.
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On the TV app?
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