18-10-2022, 09:39 AM
In the mid 1980s, as TV-am was finding its feet, it decided that, as well as having UK reporters based in the regions and nations, to open regional offices. These were also known as inject studios. It saved guests on the programme having to travel down to London; instead they could be interviewed locally. Ian White, the BBC Yorkshire journalist, has the North east inject studio set. It consisted of two parts. The first was a smaller version of the Good Morning Britain set, and at 90 degrees to that, was a regionalised version of the TV-am news set. In the case of the North East, it would read "TV-am North East" as opposed to TV-am News.
I know the TV-am North East studio was in an office block, a few minutes walk from Jesmond Metro station, and the one in Yorkshire was in the TV museum in Bradford. Where were the others located, and who uses them now? Also, when TV-am closed its news service in 1992, in favour of Sky produced bulletins for the last months, I assume these inject studios were done away with as well?
I know the TV-am North East studio was in an office block, a few minutes walk from Jesmond Metro station, and the one in Yorkshire was in the TV museum in Bradford. Where were the others located, and who uses them now? Also, when TV-am closed its news service in 1992, in favour of Sky produced bulletins for the last months, I assume these inject studios were done away with as well?