I think the awful news was professionally reported and shows that Good Morning Britain can return to its 'newsy' roots when needed. They had a good use of Latest Pictures and split screens between Brussels and live interviews. I suppose the minor clock situation could be fixed if needed in the future (hopefully not) by just displaying the logo used on the TOTH.
GMB also reported the news 15 minutes before BBC Breakfast.
I'm personally less concerned about who broke the story first. Historically, the BBC isn't first off the mark for breaking news stories - but that's largely because they go for fact-checking and accuracy first and foremost. For what it's worth, when BBC Breakfast did break the story, its continuing coverage was excellent, informative and authoritative.
GMB also reported the news 15 minutes before BBC Breakfast.
I'm personally less concerned about who broke the story first. Historically, the BBC isn't first off the mark for breaking news stories - but that's largely because they go for fact-checking and accuracy first and foremost. For what it's worth, when BBC Breakfast did break the story, its continuing coverage was excellent, informative and authoritative.
Well from what I was seeing, exactly the same information was being reported.
GMB also reported the news 15 minutes before BBC Breakfast.
I'm personally less concerned about who broke the story first. Historically, the BBC isn't first off the mark for breaking news stories - but that's largely because they go for fact-checking and accuracy first and foremost. For what it's worth, when BBC Breakfast did break the story, its continuing coverage was excellent, informative and authoritative.
Well from what I was seeing, exactly the same information was being reported.
Really? Did Breakfast report attacks on "four Metro stations" as GMB did?
Anyway, I don't really watch GMB so cannot comment. All I know is that Breakfast's coverage was, in my opinion, excellent.
Kudos to GMB for breaking it first (did Sky break it after them as well?) but it's all pretty academic, given the terrible context.
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Both did an excellent job and took different angles to how they delivered the news, which is great for the viewer. Everything GMB reported was with a source or a disclaimer - they never claimed that four metro stations had been attacked, they claimed there were reports that four had been attacked, which was true. They tried to clarify that with the various eyewitness acconuts and it soon became clear to the presenters, if not the ticker reader, that wasn't the case.
I'm not usually the sort to praise Twitter etc. but they used it well this morning to collate information but nothing that wasn't fact was ever put out as fact.
It is. But really the first time it escaped it's 9.25 finish was the Scottish Referendum morning in 2014 when GMB finished at 10am.
So today is not really significant though it does show the benefit of ITV owning it's Breakfast hours that it can continue News coverage all morning.
This has been mentioned before but there was an example of TVam going past 9.25 from breaking news, back in 1985 when they were covering the Manchester Airport Disaster - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airtours_Flight_28M
According to the 1985 Television Yearbook, TVam managed to get the first pictures of the disaster at 9.20, whereas the BBC and ITN were stuck in traffic, so rather than lose pictures completely at 9.25 they were able to continue. According to the Yearbook they were broadcasting at 10.05 as ITN still hadn't arrived, while the Beeb had their first pictures at 10am. Almost the opposite of what happened with the Brighton bomb less than twelve months earlier, of course.
TVam managed to get the first pictures of the disaster at 9.20, whereas the BBC and ITN were stuck in traffic, so rather than lose pictures completely at 9.25 they were able to continue. According to the Yearbook they were broadcasting at 10.05 as ITN still hadn't arrived, while the Beeb had their first pictures at 10am.
That's interesting, never knew that
Was that broadcast fed to the network via Thames or whoever from 9:25 after the scheduled transmitter switch as a network broadcast or was TV-AM still directly connected to the transmitters and they weren't flipped source-wise until whenever? Not that it'll probably tell you that in the Yearbook but...
We all know what happened with TV-AM and the Brighton Bombings - a severe kick-up the backside from the IBA, to put it bluntly.
Was that broadcast fed to the network via Thames or whoever from 9:25 after the scheduled transmitter switch as a network broadcast or was TV-AM still directly connected to the transmitters and they weren't flipped source-wise until whenever? Not that it'll probably tell you that in the Yearbook but...
No it doesn't. The book suggests TVam put out "a special bulletin" after 9.25 so maybe the ITV regions all took over at 9.25, but then all went back to TVam pretty soon after? Using the same principle of going to ITN for a newsflash, only they went to TVam instead? Perhaps.
