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So there actually thought ITV2 would be local aswll?

How on earth did they correctly predict Film 2001?

They did predict MTV One and MTV2 surprisingly, and they also predicted NBC Europe even though it was foreign!

Channel 4 had already launched by this point. I think they were thinking that the ITV companies would get a second channel for their franchise.

They won't have expected 24 hour TV, Sky, rolling news channels, specialist children's channels (Nickelodeon is listed, but that midnight programme is definitely not a kids show, so they were expecting Nick At Nite), and a national Channel 5. They did accurately predict that there'd be six BBC channels though (however, the extras at that point were News, Parliament, Knowledge, and Choice, not 3, 4, 5, and 6).

They have a news section, though the channels are based off newspapers

They'd have been wrong, though, if they had predicted that Barry Norman would still be the host.

Well, there's been Film 72-83 by that point, so not that much of a stretch :p

I like how they think we would have abolished the 12 hour clock by 2001. 'News at 22'.

BFI Classics is a channel that should exist.

They incorrectly predicted the Olympics being moved a year out of the four year cycle...

That's clearly Winter Olympics. November 2001 would've only been three months early.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Winter_Olympics

They didn't predict platform neutrality though, they assumed that the BBC and ITV would have different services on satellite rather than broadcast all of theirs on satellite.

That demonstrates the assumption that the established 'duopoly' of TV was going to last - no newcomers, the UK satellite slots would just go to BBC and ITV