28-06-2024, 04:04 PM
In hindsight an election nostalgia thread would have been a good idea - perhaps something to set up for Thursday if ITN are releasing quite a bit of archive footage. I assume this thread will close too and be replaced with one for the election night programmes themselves anyway.
For prior elections before breakfast TV I guess it might have been the one day every few years something might air in the breakfast slot?
(28-06-2024, 03:30 PM)lookoutwales Wrote: Think it was for at least three elections (1983 and both in 1974) that they managed to create a two-level set in studio 1 at Wells Street - main set on the upper tier and production staff in the lower tier - simply by building a false floor with a hole in the middle.Interesting that according to that the TV-am slot ran from 6-10am that day, with no break before the return to ITN at 10am. I thought initially the 9.15am finish time of TV-am was because they needed the 10 minutes to switch back to the regions at 9.25am. I guess they may have been granted the extra time in exchange for ITN and the regions input into the breakfast slot.
This edition of The Lens, ITN's staff newspaper, goes into a lot of detail about their election operation in 1983
itn1955club.co.uk
For prior elections before breakfast TV I guess it might have been the one day every few years something might air in the breakfast slot?