[James2001]

Adam Rickitt was in the show for a while and his wife Katy presented Calendar for a while.

LivingTV showed it for a while when Adam Rickitt was in it, don't think it lasted long on there though.

[Stooky Bill]

If Leeds had played out a different tape to Tyne Tees, and injected ads in the middle, there would be no transitions between one and the other (just hard-switched, albeit gen-locked joins) and would have looked awful on-screen, not to mention the compliance issues associated with not having black space between the ads and the return of the programme. Newcastle would have had to have had a VT operator around to play from there and that operator wasn't on the payroll any more.

That doesn't make much sense, if they couldn't play two different episodes of a programme, how did they manage to play two different regional programmes?

[Humphrey Hacker]

How many episodes were skipped?

[bilky asko]

According to UKGameshows, "over 50".

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[Humphrey Hacker]

According to UKGameshows, "over 50".

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Wow that's about 3-4 months at least. Thanks.

[WillPS]

That doesn't make much sense, if they couldn't play two different episodes of a programme, how did they manage to play two different regional programmes?

By having more staff in than they were willing to do for an edition of a teatime quiz, presumably.

[Stooky Bill]

By having more staff in than they were willing to do for an edition of a teatime quiz, presumably.

Why would you need more staff just to play two tapes at the same time? Back in the days when everything was off machines the size of a car and needed a dedicated operator maybe, but not in the 90s

[WillPS]

Why would you need more staff just to play two tapes at the same time? Back in the days when everything was off machines the size of a car and needed a dedicated operator maybe, but not in the 90s

I'm not sure automated playout was a thing yet at this point? Happy to be corrected - I'm not stating it as fact; just speculating (hence 'presumably').

[Milkshake]

How did GMTV play out the local adverts? or did they just get the local ITV area to play them out?

[TIGHazard]

How did GMTV play out the local adverts? or did they just get the local ITV area to play them out?

GMTV had an agreement with the local ITV area to provide the local news updates*. Presumably this applied to local adverts too, as the regions took GMTV like any other networked show and opted out to show the news.

* I believe there two(?) regions where this didn't happen. UTV was one, certainly as in 1994 there was a loyalist ceasefire and they left GMTV early to provide coverage of this... except of course they didn't own the airtime and were broadcasting illegally. GMTV then at different times contracted Reuters, ITN, and then a company called Macmillan Media to provide local news there and UTV were locked out of the transmitters during GMTV's hours.

The second was STV in 2007 when for whatever reason GMTV did not renew the local news contract. This continued when it became ITV Breakfast Limited until 2013 when both UTV and STV were reawarded the local news contracts.

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