[steve]

I know they used to record headlines, and maybe still do. But there aren’t headlines at this point – just a simple ‘Thank you, and welcome to Look North’ before the titles. It would seem that they’re possibly recording this and the intro to the first report from the tower screen.

Whether they’re supposed to do that or not, it doesn’t seem an especially complex sequence. So I don’t see why they’d need to pre-record it.

As far as I'm aware, they no longer record the headlines - it happened every day until one day the recording went wrong and they had to crash out of them to a very unhappy looking Christa in the studio... think it was stopped at that point!

Good spot re the 10pm update. I suspect the pre-title handover and the main story intro are being pre-recorded because of camera positioning? I guess there's no camera op in the studio at 10 and the opening shot includes a zoom plus background animation. LN Leeds also have live weather in the 10pm, unlike many, so the cameras will need to be locked off in those positions. From memory they have three main cameras (with autocues) and one smaller non-autocue camera (may have changed since I was last in the studio!).