[Bluecortina]

That one could well have been recorded too, certainly Sarah's look to the right when she introduces it looks a bit odd. The wide shot at the beginning is framed so to hide the 'South' or ' South East'


Regional news magazines from that era are a whole different world to what we're used to today. Can you imagine a presenter of Meridian Tonight opening the programme talking about their holiday and sun tan?

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Although my understanding is that, like in a lot of the franchise changes, the regional news archive was sold/transferred on to the successor. So the ownership of Day by Day might not be that contentious, assuming it was episodes and not just stock shots, packages etc

The recorded bulletin was generally recorded about 20 mins before tx time. In the latter days recorded direct to the ACR rather than a VTR machine. The recorded bulletin was 'cut to' in presentation by rolling the ACR and cutting at the appropriate moment into the outgoing tx feed.

Sarah having introduced the local news in the studio, the studio vision mixer is then waiting for presentation to cut the ACR to air looking at a gallery monitor before momentarily cutting later to the 'other' local news reader in the studio. Generally worked fine but being manual I suppose it could look like a bit of a pregnant pause at times.

Nice shot of the somewhat unique Richmond Hill vision mixer in the opening titles, never saw another one of that make anywhere else.