Luke's posts, page 231

No actually I believe Carlton were responsible for Morse, through a production subsidery, before they gained the licence. It was produced for Central.

it was a very entertaining documenatary (which no doubt will end up on BBC2 sometime given the national print press coverage it got this morning). I'm just pleased he's not the Chairman of my football club (if George happens to read this, I don't mean it -please don't come round and see me)

I don't think Carlton ever 'made' anything ! They arrived as a 'publisher contractor' - commissioned some utter crap in their early days and then had to buy Central to gain any production respectability . The fact that they crow about Morse is laughable - Morse was being made way before Carlton came along and they just took the kudos once they bought the company.
Michael Green goes away with 20 odd million - poor dear ...my heart bleeds
If you wanna know who wrecked ITV - look to Mrs Thatcher - she paved the way ...and its been down hill ever since ...one good reason to never vote tory!

Of course but if they let the ratings build up they'd get the cash - they seem to want it instantly instead of waiting a tad longer. It worked fine for decades but now with the new system they are doing worse than ever before.

Please feel free to call me a winky-basher or cretin if this is being discussed elsewhere, but Sky News Active seems to have been relaunched as Sky Scape. www.sky.com/news


When the initial SNA service launched, I didn't feel there was much of a market for payed video content when the BBC provide it for free , and I guess this relaunch confirms this to be the case.

Did anybody here actually bother to subscribe to the original service?

Is it? I don't tend to notice such things, but I don't think it is

Anyway, Mike Ramsden (not asian) is popping up over at Radio 1 and presumabley Gillian (not asian) and Nina (asian, I think) are on holiday, leaving Emily (not asian) and Asad (asian) doing the main bits with others such as Jules (not asian) filling in.

But as I say, your point is irrelevant

Was Michael Green as the boss of Carlton, personally responsible for 'News at When'? Isn't that the responsibility of the ITV Network controller, which was David Liddiment at the time?

We've got European elections next year

I did post a comment about Michael Green, but the petty bickering about News at When, which I would very much encourage you to discuss in a dedicated thread, continued unabated. Is it so hard to create a new thread to discuss the failings of News at When? And would it not make it easier for people to find who are interested in discussing the topic. thereby resulting in more contributions, rather than burying it in a thread about Michael Green and the consequences of his resignation?

Not many films will fit in, along with adverts and have it still starting on time. And what will they do with things like the Frank Skinner Show? At the moment it is on after the news at 22:30, and goes on till 23:20, so if it started at 22:00, then the news would be pushed back to 22:50, and if they pushed frank back, it would start at 21:40! Unless they put a half hour programme before it followed by creature comforts or something!

How can you state that it was popular only because of the event? Neither you, I, nor anyone else will ever know what could've happened if they had kept it. I was just speculating that itv's nightly news programme could have been more successful if it was regularly screened at 9:00.
Please tell me why a large amount of viewers watched it at 9:00 during the war but not after it? Also, how am I contradicting myself?



Possibly. But it could have generated more viewers at other times. For example, it would have freed the post 9:30 schedule for films, and other feature length stuff. Also, it would have enabled the network to move the evening news to an earlier time, thus again freeing another part of the schedule, from 6-9, for even more prime time programming.
Finally, it would certainly provide viewers with far more choice than is currently available, in that a news programme would be avaliable at 9:00 on itv, and also at 10:00 on BBC 1.