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I think there are some excellent points in Brekkie's post. I agree ITV must keep the advantage of their earlier Evening Regional News programme as I've realised that otherwise we could indeed see another News At Ten situation. I also agree ITV need to highlight their Regional services as much as possible with more competition coming from the Local TV stations (though it must be said ITV have caused some of their own problems with too many cuts to it's own service. As said previously I feel a programme covering Regional Politics/Current Affairs etc could help matters for ITV too).
I still think the only way a Newshour type programme could work is by having a Regionally produced/edited/hosted programme with the latest National,International and Regional News...but it would probably cost more to produce and with less Regional stuff (although if it was 20 mins of real News...). A Regional/National Newshour looks too complicated technically due to quotas, opt-outs etc.
This is getting worse than the rota threads.
In the real world I don't think anyone thinks a newshour is a good idea - the Evening News at 6.30pm benefits from the later start and would only suffer going head to head with the 6pm news, while similarly the main and only advantage the regional news has is it gets in before the BBC regional news - it would lose by even more if it clashed with their BBC rivals.
ITV looked at a newshour a few years ago now (before the 2009 revamp I think) and ruled it out - and although the look now be more integrated than ever before they've axed the integrated 1.30pm and 10pm bulletins in favour of separate bulletins, so aren't going to suddenly decide an integrated bulletin is what is needed in the 6pm hour.
Also with the arrival of local channels around the country ITV will surely want to give their local news service more prominence, not hide it within an ITV News hour, only encouraging people to look elsewhere for their local news. If ITV scrapped the 6pm local bulletins they are just inviting the new local services to claim the slot for themselves - and it's basically News at Ten all over again.
In the real world I don't think anyone thinks a newshour is a good idea - the Evening News at 6.30pm benefits from the later start and would only suffer going head to head with the 6pm news, while similarly the main and only advantage the regional news has is it gets in before the BBC regional news - it would lose by even more if it clashed with their BBC rivals.
ITV looked at a newshour a few years ago now (before the 2009 revamp I think) and ruled it out - and although the look now be more integrated than ever before they've axed the integrated 1.30pm and 10pm bulletins in favour of separate bulletins, so aren't going to suddenly decide an integrated bulletin is what is needed in the 6pm hour.
Also with the arrival of local channels around the country ITV will surely want to give their local news service more prominence, not hide it within an ITV News hour, only encouraging people to look elsewhere for their local news. If ITV scrapped the 6pm local bulletins they are just inviting the new local services to claim the slot for themselves - and it's basically News at Ten all over again.
I think there are some excellent points in Brekkie's post. I agree ITV must keep the advantage of their earlier Evening Regional News programme as I've realised that otherwise we could indeed see another News At Ten situation. I also agree ITV need to highlight their Regional services as much as possible with more competition coming from the Local TV stations (though it must be said ITV have caused some of their own problems with too many cuts to it's own service. As said previously I feel a programme covering Regional Politics/Current Affairs etc could help matters for ITV too).
I still think the only way a Newshour type programme could work is by having a Regionally produced/edited/hosted programme with the latest National,International and Regional News...but it would probably cost more to produce and with less Regional stuff (although if it was 20 mins of real News...). A Regional/National Newshour looks too complicated technically due to quotas, opt-outs etc.
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