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Bye Bye ITN?

I don't often argue with pedantic comments, but I certainly can spell! I fail to understand how two words each with one incorrect letter can be considered an example of bad spelling.
Humph!

Anyway, to counter your comments:

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Clearly Allen's position isn't subtle, but what he's talking about is getting the other shareholders to take a price based on the numbers, not some inflated idea of what ITN might be worth.


The point though is that under Charles Allen, ITV (and Previously Granada) has endured the results of some terrible decisions:
1 - The ITV digital fiasco. Hundreds of millions of pounds lost.
2 - News at Ten disaster. Millions of pounds probably lost in advertising revenue.
3 - A dramatic decline in non-news regional programming,
4 - The end of regional continuity.
5 - The dumbing down of ITV News.
6 - The largest closure of studios in the history of itv.

So, why should anyone trust Charles Allen to do anything but cost-cutting if itv plc does buy ITN?

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Stewart Purvis's column, written several months ago (before Allen's public statement) is far more pertinent than Mr Cockney Geezer Dyke's.


How?
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Bye Bye ITN?

I really hope Greg Dyke, Lord Hollick et al take over ITV very quickly, before the company becomes totally unsalvagable.
Charles Allen is destroying ITV. I have personally experienced the effects of his cost-cutting. Basically, anyone defending him either doesn't work in itv, or is deluded.
He is a bland economist, with no creative insight or long-term vision. The Chief Executive of ITV should definately have a background in the media or at least have some vision. Charles Allen possesses neither.
This is demonstrated in the share price: five years ago, the share price of Border Television was around £6. The current share price of ITV plc is around £1.20.
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What do you think is the scariest Ident Ever?

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The ATV "In Colour" ident used to scare the living daylights out of me when I was a kid. I couldn't look at or hear it without getting shivers till about 7 years ago.

Something about the circles growing, and the music, which also seemed to "come towards you".

I used to have nightmares about the thing coming out of the screen and hovering in mid-air in front of me, halfway between the screen and my chair. I used to dream of seeing the symbol hovering in front of me whilst sitting on a toilet (a strangely recurring dream), and of just hearing the jingle whilst completely unrelated things happened in my dream. I even once dreamed I was being driven around a large town and there were all these giant billboards each filled with a huge, single ATV logo.

I once dreamed I saw a dinner jacket standing at my bedroom door, no legs or anything coming out of the arms, and the ATV logo appearing in place of the face, the V twitching like a grinning mouth...

I was so glad when Central came along ... and then... "Central Presents..."


Oh dear. If you found the ATV ident scary, then I advise that you don't look at this:
http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/international/video_spain/tve1_startup_89.rm
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The Future of Digital Telvision

I would just like every sky digital channel to be broadcast at a resolution of 720x576, with FEC of 1/2 and compression of 27.5 Mbaud.
Also, in the future, the introduction of High Definition broadcasting, with all boxes currently sold having the processing power to decode HDTV.
If the result of this would be less channels, I would welcome it. Who would really miss God TV, Fox News, Avago, Classics TV, UKTV Style +1 etc.
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ITV London Tonight

Hopefully, if the itv takeover happens, someone will seriously beat up the London Tonight editor and send him on his way. As someone earlier mentioned, this programme is fine if you enjoy laughing at the absurdity of the 'London life' features and Alistair Stewart's constant ego-boosting. However, for serious news it is truely useless.
A decent editor should be appointed, all journalists should be reviewed, and only those with decent journalistic skills should be allowed to remain. Also, Anna Marie-Ashe and Paul Green should return to present the main programme; the fact that the best presenters were made redundant when the move happened is incredible.
Finally, and I realise very unlikely, London Tonight should return to LNN. ITN had its chance, and has destroyed the programme.
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ITV London Tonight

Hopefully, if the itv takeover happens, someone will seriously beat up the London Tonight editor and send him on his way. As someone earlier mentioned, this programme is fine if you enjoy laughing at the absurdity of the 'London life' features and Alistair Stewart's constant ego-boosting. However, for serious news it is truely useless.
A decent editor should be appointed, all journalists should be reviewed, and only those with decent journalistic skills should be allowed to remain. Also, Anna Marie-Ashe and Paul Green should return to present the main programme; the fact that the best presenters were made redundant when the move happened is incredible.
Finally, and I realise very unlikely, London Tonight should return to LNN. ITN had its chance, and has destroyed the programme.
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"New celebrity wrestling show comes to ITV"

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is there anyone at ITVplc (sorry Granada Empire plc) who knows how to write a decent comedy script, format a creditable entertainment programme or devise a drama that isn't about crime or dectectives?


No.
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Oxford Media Convention 2005

I live in Oxford and had no idea that this is happening. Can I still reserve a place?
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Patrick Muirhead attacks Channel Television

Quite honestly, the transition from the today programme to the lightest news patch in the country must be very difficult.
Also, I realise Channel Report is not intended to be newsnight, but being forbidden from asking challenging questions seems too much:

Once, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda visited Jersey, ostensibly to collect four ribbon-bedecked Jersey cattle to bolster his nation’s dairy herd. I wished to ask him why he had really come to an island awash with financiers while massing his army on the border with his neighbour Congo ready for war with Hutus who threatened to invade. I could not have cared less about cutesy cows; I ached to be Jeremy Paxman. But my job was to gush and whoop convincingly about bovines in bunting. That sort of journalism demands no less panache that Paxo’s; it’s just not in my skills set.
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Interesting BBC Select Ident

Big threads?! Excluding your message, this thread only has four messages!
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Interesting BBC Select Ident

The ident can be viewed here: http://www.yle.fi/yle24/videosali/index.php?a=9&t=1&q=1
When the stream buffers, go forward until the clip is about 10 seconds from the end.

So, does anyone know what exactly this is used for? I presume it is some sort of frontcap. Quite odd branding though.

Also, if anyone is interested, the clip contains the last five minutes of YLE's morning breakfast programme (mostly in English)!
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BBC ONE weekdays 1855

The BBC should just do the following:
18:00 - Announcement into national news.
18:00-18:30 - BBC News, including national weather as the final item in the programme.
18:29:40 - Newscaster: That's it; the news where you are follows. (or something similar)
18:29:50 - Closing titles.
18:30 - Welcome to <regional news programme>. (Programme ends at 18:59).

Why overly complicate the situation?