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globaltraffic24447 posts since 23 Jun 2013
STV Central Reporting Scotland
The bids from LondonTV and London8 would have been interesting to see on-air. London8 had ITN as one of its backers and was planning to go big on news. LondonTV had lined up CityTV Toronto's ex Head of Programming. Arguably either of these bids would have produced stronger television. When you look at the applications, IMHO London Live won simply on the strength of being able to say that it would heavily cross promote the channel in the Evening Standard. Very little focus on programming and content from the word go!
Brekkie31,225 posts since 4 Jan 2003
HTV Wales Wales Today
GMc posted:
STV Glasgow listings (from Freeview EPG)

Launch Night (Monday):

18.30 - The Riverside Show News
19.00 - The Riverside Show
20.30 - Peter & Roughie's Football Show
21.00 - My Life in Ten Pictures
21.30 - The Blether
22.00 - STV Glasgow News
22.30 - Scotland Tonight
23.00 - The Riverside Show


Then, Weekdays look like this:

12.00 - STV Glasgow News
14.30 - Scotland Tonight
15.00 - Hooked
15.30 - STV Glasgow News
15.45 - The Riverside Show
17.15 - STV Glasgow News
17.30 - Take the High Road
18.00 - STV News at Six
18.30 - The Riverside Show News
19.00 - The Riverside Show
20.30 - Peter & Roughie's Football Show
21.00 -
- Tue : Classic Taggart
- Wed : Czas Honoru
- Thu : Glasgow's Murder Mysteries
- Fri : The Riverside Weekend; The Tenement
22.00 - STV Glasgow News
22.30 - Scotland Tonight; The Blether ( Fri )
23.00 - The Riverside Show

Interesting they simulcast the 6pm news and Scotland Tonight - guess it makes sense. Not sure it makes sense to offer a rival news programme to News at Ten though, though time will tell.
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SuperDave483 posts since 9 Jan 2012
London London
globaltraffic24 posted:
The bids from LondonTV and London8 would have been interesting to see on-air. London8 had ITN as one of its backers and was planning to go big on news. LondonTV had lined up CityTV Toronto's ex Head of Programming. Arguably either of these bids would have produced stronger television. When you look at the applications, IMHO London Live won simply on the strength of being able to say that it would heavily cross promote the channel in the Evening Standard. Very little focus on programming and content from the word go!


Actually if LL had stuck to their original plan, on paper certainly the lineup wasn't that bad - 90 minutes of news from 5.30, followed by an hour of entertainment (London Go), an hour of archive, then 90 minutes of acquired drama and entertainment 'set in London', a late news roundup at 10.30 followed by The Big Debate and finally an hour of new edgy programming under the the moniker Launchpad.

Sadly it seems only London Go managed to make it to air.