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For how many years did GMTV do live news on New Year Day before it became entirely children’s programmes. Did they ever do anything live on Christmas or Boxing Day.

From memory GMTV was only ever live for the News on Christmas and Boxing Day, anything was else was pre-recorded. I guess GMTV was only live on New Year’s Day in 1993 as it was their first day, which definitely would’ve gathered a lot of attention. I guess it was a soft launch for the next week when Michael Wilson and Fiona Armstrong arrived.

To be fair it was a proper launch because Eammon and Anna Davis did present the Friday edition.

I sometimes wonder if they picked January 1 1993 because it fell on a Friday.  If both companies for London lost their licence that would have seen the new companies go both on air on the same day, one at midnight and the other at 5:15.

Although of course its more likely it just happened to start on a Friday, after all the ones from 1982 started on a Friday too (the 1968 franchises started on a Monday)

They didn't have much of a choice, as the date Jan 1st 1993 was set down a decade before with the Jan 1st 1982 new franchise launch, and they decided to have a full decade inclusive, meaning using all of 1992 before the new franchise period started.

No it didn't, the 1982 licence was only for 8 years? They were in fact extended to 31st Dec 1992 because of the new Auction process.