[James2001]

With the old ITN coverage, it's a shame they weren't able to have the big sprawling sets like the BBC did, with them only having access to comparably small studios, originally in Television House, then Wells Street when the BBC had big studios at Lime Grove and TVC. 64 and 66 look like it was just a camera and desk set up in the newsroom. It was only when they used the atrium at Gray's Inn Road they really had something on a BBC-esque scale, and with the VR/chromakey studios of the last 20 years they've made the studios look bigger than they were.

I guess ITN could theoretically have hired out a bigger studio from one of the ITV companies, but I don't know how logistically easy that would have been.

You can see the fish eye lens on the Feb 74 titles in that vid, and they did it in 83 as well, which made the studio look a lot bigger tha it was.