The format of just rolling bulletins is refreshing, especially when other channels are just spending minutes and minutes on relatively minor breaking news which would be better served as a quick newsflash to be returned to later in the hour once more details emerge. If ITN (or another provider) were to launch now though I doubt such a format would be under consideration, though perhaps something with a bulletin at the top of the hour then a looser back half hour to allow for extended features would work well enough - but that's what BBC News is effectively becoming anyway.
Well of course ITN/ITV tried twice to break into the news channel market and failed with both formats and that was in the heyday of news channels. With Sky and BBC making massive cuts to their services I doubt a third UK service would ever be launched and if it was it wouldn't be a success.
indeed - the landscape has massively changed since this channel launched and closed - did social media even exist? A romantic notion but not needed at all and far from profitable.
and also when Sky went through a period of 15 minute wheels on evenings and weekends - which is being advocated here for an entire channel - it was hated, so what gives here?
I think ITN have pretty much given up any idea of providing news under their own brand direct to the public. They gave up their own news website a few years ago and haven't made any movements in the app or smart TV markets
I really do think that the peak of the ITV News Channel was the coverage of the Iraq War, the scale of the coverage and the style of reporting was sublime. After that, ITV's mind began to focus on their multichannel expansion, which was shockingly inauspicious.
The News Channel depended mainly on Freeview for most of us viewership - which was hampered by ITV3 if you never were in range of Crystal Palace (there was never the infrastructure to set up a fourth ITV stream on Mux 2), and subsequently had to do it by a regional basis, causing viewership to drop.
Then they started the prospect of talking about ITV4 and CITV, and kept M&M as it was making more money. The lack of Freeview capacity and the financial losses incurred drove the News Channel to its grave.
I really doubt anyone would set up a third UK news channel now - Sky and the BBC are dealing with cuts, and the proliferation of social media also has implications.
During the Iraq War they will still in that interim style presented from the network studio before the proper news channel with the theatre of news started.
Well of course ITN/ITV tried twice to break into the news channel market and failed with both formats and that was in the heyday of news channels.
What was their other attempt? Their majority share in Euronews?
I'm never sure why they took on EuroNews for a while, it's a channel that's never been big in the UK.
I think ITN came into the market five years too late. If it had launched on Sky and Analogue cable, I think there would have been a greater chance of success.
Worth noting at the time of closure more people watched ITV NC on DTT than Sky News, but it wasn't and was probably never going to pay the bills for ITV.
I think ITN have pretty much given up any idea of providing news under their own brand direct to the public. They gave up their own news website a few years ago and haven't made any movements in the app or smart TV markets
ITN still runs a YouTube channel, although it changed the name to ODN 2 years ago.
The ITN/ITV News Channel is no more but it left a brilliant legacy which still exists, i.e. overnight coverage of US presidential elections on ITV since 2004 (the year in which, I believe, the News Channel's US election coverage was simulcast on ITV). Furthermore, the 24-hour ITV national news service still exists - on the ITV News website.
Well of course ITN/ITV tried twice to break into the news channel market and failed with both formats and that was in the heyday of news channels.
What was their other attempt? Their majority share in Euronews?
I'm never sure why they took on EuroNews for a while, it's a channel that's never been big in the UK.
I think ITN came into the market five years too late. If it had launched on Sky and Analogue cable, I think there would have been a greater chance of success.
Worth noting at the time of closure more people watched ITV NC on DTT than Sky News, but it wasn't and was probably never going to pay the bills for ITV.
I don't think there was a huge number of satellite and cable viewers in the pre-digital days. Therefore, it wouldn't have been financially worthwhile for ITN to launch a news channel in the 90s.