Powercut at Grays Inn Road: 4/4/22

[kernow]

I noticed that the News at Ten endcap just said ITN at the bottom, rather than the usual ITN 2022

[EDCanada]

Here's the open...

[Brekkie]

I’m guessing Sangeeta Lal must be based in Leeds as she’s been the one and only studio contributor today and I’m sure she’s spoken about a different topic on each of the three bulletins.

Yes - think she was a travel correspondent at lunch, health reporter for the Evening bulletin and then sounds like she had a new role by this evening.

Obviously the national bulletins prioritised so London the only one not to go out at all. Did Meridian extend their patch for the evening to include some London stories? That's one perhaps if the issues continue tomorrow they should perhaps try and do from Millbank - at least the 6pm edition, though I guess the bigger issue is having a base to put the bulletin together rather than the broadcasting of it.

[London Lite]

With News at Ten especially, it was nice to see it coming from a real set and not the functional VR one they usually use.

[Andrew]

Is it not a bit odd that ITV News Meridian South Coast version is the back up for London? Surely the South East one would be better, what with the history on the other side of London & the south east being linked (both with Covid bulletins and with Newsroom South East), plus is it not smaller, and more dominated by London commuter belt areas

[mccanmat]

I noticed that the News at Ten endcap just said ITN at the bottom, rather than the usual ITN 2022

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Sure what happened there as lunchtime news had a 2022 end cap

[London Lite]

Is it not a bit odd that ITV News Meridian South Coast version is the back up for London? Surely the South East one would be better, what with the history on the other side of London & the south east being linked (both with Covid bulletins and with Newsroom South East), plus is it not smaller, and more dominated by London commuter belt areas

In the past they used the sub-opt used by TVS and Meridian that came out of Newbury. BBC One also used to be South but switched to South East.

[London Lite]

Obviously the national bulletins prioritised so London the only one not to go out at all. Did Meridian extend their patch for the evening to include some London stories? That's one perhaps if the issues continue tomorrow they should perhaps try and do from Millbank - at least the 6pm edition, though I guess the bigger issue is having a base to put the bulletin together rather than the broadcasting of it.

One London story from Rags Martel featured, plus the weather forecast map also covered London. Sangeeta Bhabra kept mentioning to visit the ITV News London website for more news.

[Richard]

What happened with Calendar after News at Ten? Same studio?

[XIII]

Obviously the national bulletins prioritised so London the only one not to go out at all. Did Meridian extend their patch for the evening to include some London stories? That's one perhaps if the issues continue tomorrow they should perhaps try and do from Millbank - at least the 6pm edition, though I guess the bigger issue is having a base to put the bulletin together rather than the broadcasting of it.

One London story from Rags Martel featured, plus the weather forecast map also covered London. Sangeeta Bhabra kept mentioning to visit the ITV News London website for more news.

TBH I imagine anyone who really wanted local London news would wait until BBC London started at 1830.

[Markymark]

Obviously the national bulletins prioritised so London the only one not to go out at all. Did Meridian extend their patch for the evening to include some London stories? That's one perhaps if the issues continue tomorrow they should perhaps try and do from Millbank - at least the 6pm edition, though I guess the bigger issue is having a base to put the bulletin together rather than the broadcasting of it.

One London story from Rags Martel featured, plus the weather forecast map also covered London. Sangeeta Bhabra kept mentioning to visit the ITV News London website for more news.

It was a story about Heathrow, a location Meridian usually need no encouragement to cover anyway. 06:24 GMB bulletin is also being shared with London this morning BTW

[Ben]

Obviously the national bulletins prioritised so London the only one not to go out at all. Did Meridian extend their patch for the evening to include some London stories? That's one perhaps if the issues continue tomorrow they should perhaps try and do from Millbank - at least the 6pm edition, though I guess the bigger issue is having a base to put the bulletin together rather than the broadcasting of it.

One London story from Rags Martel featured, plus the weather forecast map also covered London. Sangeeta Bhabra kept mentioning to visit the ITV News London website for more news.

Just out of interest is it the Meridian South Region that London falls back on or was it that edition was live tonight rather than pre-recorded?

[Steve in Pudsey]

The power company's map linked on page 3 by [mention]Newsroom[/mention] suggests the lights are still off.

[dbl]

ITV Meridian (South) for London during GMB currently

[RDJ]

Interesting. Could we be in for day 2 of disruption? I would suspect so unless the power comes back on in the next hour or two.

I suspect contingency plans were made yesterday should the disruption continue, but then again they may just take the jaunt back up to Leeds if needs must and it worked yesterday.

Another thing that came to mind yesterday is why they didn’t use the studio that they use for the regional political programmes at Millbank? Unless that’s been addressed and I’ve just missed it.