What goes into our news programmes? Blood sweat and tears mostly. Click to find out what our day looks like and how it all comes together for the midday and 4pm bulletins. The team at City News reveal their schedule for the day.

—The City News schedule—

9.00 Film crews get cameras and go filming.

9.00 Studio team prepare studio stories

9.20 Editorial meeting for studio bulletin (including films)

10.00 Weather presenter prepares the weather for 12pm bulletin

10.30 Headlines recorded, straps (words on the screen), and pictures delivered to Production team.

10.30 Graphics delivered to gallery (our control room), for the 12pm bulletin

11.00 Weather report delivered to production team.

11.15 All scripts are finished and loaded into the Autocue and printed as a back up

11.20 Rehearsals

12pm BULLETIN transmission

1.25 Director, gallery team, Studio report team: RECORD STUDIO REPORT

2.00 Presenters record 4pm bulletin headlines

2.15 Tech team need footage for headlines, straps and Voice Over (VO), and pictures for the COMING UP tease

3.00 Graphics (what you see on the screen behind the presenters), delivered to the gallery

3.00 Scripts finished

3.30 Films for the 4pm bulletin finished and sent to production team

4pm Programme transmission.

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