ITV News studio issues

[Brekkie]

I have to say I have been very impressed with ITN recently. We remember the power failure they had in April, meant producing the national bulletins from Leeds?  Excellent job they did.

I do feel lumping ITV News London into the same set as ITV national news will cause problems if the studio has a massive fault. We can see the cost savings yes, but surely ITV News London having its own studio would not be too expensive.

They've been in the same studio about a decade now (it was towards the end of the yellow era).  That's over 2500 editions.  The amount of times it has been potentially an issue can be counted on one hand, and bring in separate studios wouldn't have necessarily prevented the issue either as we saw earlier in the year when C4 and C5 had to broadcast from elsewhere too.

Also ITV do have that secondary studio used for online content which could probably be used as a backup if required - though I get the impression it's easier to do an OB from anywhere in the world than relocate elsewhere within Grays Inn Studios.