21-01-2024, 06:19 PM
(21-01-2024, 02:38 PM)Stooky Bill Wrote: The only one that was straight forward was TVS to Meridian as in terms of playout that was essentially a rebrand - the same TX suite just started using Meridian branded material rather than TVS's. Though I imagine they had some sort of practise or familiarisation of how they worked on air. Of course Meridian Tonight and the new news centres would have been piloted a lot before then
IIRC, by the time they went off air, TVS at Northam had twin Pres suites which pretty much mirrored each other (there were also two Pres studios - one for Late Night Late, the other for short news bulletins / the Hannington opt for Coast for Coast)
Always seemed a bit curious to me how Westcountry's (pre-rec'd) opening junction somehow got on air early.
HTV TX would still have been handling ads for both S4C and Channel 4 in the West until midnight, as well. Presumably Westcountry's full-scale operation meant building a new suite at Culverhouse? (or did it make use of the operation tied up by playing ads)