What was it like reading the North News /Headlines without an autocue?
Yes, you are right, they did not have Autocue in that studio and which I was used to. You have to absorb as much of the script as possible as you look down. Getting the script in good time is essential if you are to deliver it well without a prompter. Thankfully this always happened at Grampian. Still, I think a prompter would have been money well spent. However, they tend to be big contraptions so I doubt if one would have fitted in the tiny studio. – What was the continuity studio on the first floor like to work in and did you get the chance work in the new one on the ground floor? I left just before the new facilities came online. The old ones were typical of all ITV stations of the time: cramped, a little old fashioned, and rather claustrophobic. Viewers had no idea what a grotty box it was, such was the illusion created. One station (not Grampian) had an old sideboard just out of shot on top of which was a row of brown sauce bottles – handy for when their announcer ate in-front of
