where are you watching it from? DTT or SkyDigital? i've got it on Sky and it looks much different to what you discribe.

sky digital
It has arrows all over the place and lots or music and a bluey 'calm' sort of studio, with a desk that just about fits the paper on it!
Are you blind :)

no, when i saw it, nick owen was explaing how great itn was... it had news readers like trev macdonald recalling his favourite news stories (this was about 9:30 last night)

the only studio i saw was the one they use on the itv news.

i shall infact have another look now...!

same video, but now you can hear a audio feed of the news, which suprisingly, is todays news.

Its confusing, yesterday they were showing the actual set and appearence of the channel, I.e. you could see the logo and it was like the real thing, today you can only hear audio and see the ITN TEST TRANSMISSION The look of the channel is at www.britishsatellite.com, it looks refresing and cool, but for a news studio has limited features, and no places for interviews.
They actually did live linkups yesterday, g.knows why, nobody is watching! (except me and you :)
It was great yesterday - everything was going wrong, i.e. Ros Childs turned blue green pink and yellow, and she burst out laughing!

>They actually did live linkups yesterday, g.knows why, nobody is watching! (except me and you :)

Most new radio stations have pre-launch test transmissions.

Test transmissions are important as they test how it's all going to work. Being 'live' on air is different to just running a test but not broadcasting it.

Interesting...the ITN website has the same graphic as the new news channel. The new station will also be broadcast/streamed live over the web (real player required).

Launch time is 1.30 p.m. 01 August.

Yup, the channel is being broadcast on the net (which is just as well, seeing as I'm unlikely to see it onDigital with it's very small 'broadcast window').

Interestingly, the BBC News site now also features an hourly updated BBC News 24 bulletin. Strange that they don't advertise their Quicktime-based BBC World feed more (although this is very little use to anyone on a dial up link).

Obviously it's in its very early stages of development at the moment and they just seem to be putting out the ITN reports from the 'main' itv bulletins. The studio consists of a chair and a table which you only see for about 2 seconds every half hour!
The whole format and look of the channel needs to change to reflect was a fast business 'real' news actually is!

It all seems a bit stale and boring at the moment and they need something momentus to happen to make them stop using the itv/itn reports and use new live reports with live interviews.
Also even some of the commercials in the breaks are being broadcast in widescreen even though they are 4:3 commercials!!!

oh well i'm sure BBC news 24 and SKY news weren't that good when they started and to be honest they have improved but still aren't brilliant!!

I'm watching it on Cable NTL channel 45 - check it out!!!

I like the way their DOG turns into a grey rectangular smudge on the screen when shown on a very light background.

I saw it this morning with a reporter in Wapping, with a grey smudge on her shoulder...

I think it's a shame that there were no 'bongs' on their News At Ten.

no bongs but a little NAT sign on the blue bit.
It has to be said the channel is VERY boring at the moment, they will eventually have to put on a prog. such as Sky News' YOUR CALL and finance prgs. to keep audience (if they have one!)
Also what is the interactive service like, is it as good as Sky News Active (^) ?
They really need two anchors and also a big desk a few tv's and a space for business and sports, it wasnt a big launch thou,just little glitery paper falling in the background

At the moment ITN look set to keep it as a 15 minute rolling news format. The idea is to be *different* form BBC & Sky who run feature programmes and 30 minute bulletins.

>and yes, I have noted the DOG, and the fact that there is no proper text service, or subtitles. Apart from that my, only other complaint is: Why on earth have they put background muzak into the main weather forecasts?

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The ITN News Channel has also been broadcasting on the Oxford Channel (local terrestrial channel) today - I am not sure if this is perminant, but it seems to have replaced the usual rolling repeat of the "Oxfordshire Hour" - have not seen any local programming when I have glanced there today.

Apparantly the Oxford Channel has been taken over and laid off most of its staff, and stopped its local programming for now.

There was a "typical" Oxford Channel programme about people walking the Ridgeway at about 11:30 last night, after some odd Gillette World Series Sport programme that seemed to be 3 weeks out of date. The web site says they are currently putting together "an exciting new range of programmes and features" so that should be good...

Any idea whether Telewest Digital Midlands will take this channel?

Would it be classed as one of the 'Base Zone' channels, or one you have to pay extra for ?

I haven't seen the ITN channel but from what I've read it seems to be based on a similar format to their London based radio station, News Direct 97.3FM.

ND have a 20mins rolling news format which is great if you want to catch up on events on the way home from work, however once 20 mins is up virtually the same reports come on again = v. boring. Let's hope they can get the format right on the box.

>I haven't seen the ITN channel but from what I've read it seems to be based on a similar format to their London based radio station, News Direct 97.3FM.

ITN seems to be a low budget channel. Apparently the newscasters have to operate the autocue with their feet!

Is that why they always have thier feet on the floor in such an odd looking way??
It is very low budget I have to agree - you would think that Granada and Carlton (they own some of it) - Granada Media even shares a building with it! would have chipped in wouldnt you.
You could tell from the first second it was low rate aside Sky News and the ugliest channel in the world (purple and beige??) News 24.

I kinda like it. The Headlines come around faster than Sky News or BBC24, and they don't have a million interruptions per hour like CNN ("Colonizing Nepal Next")!