They will be studying the ratings more intently than ever for end of November and December, and if there is a further significant drop in viewing figures for Granada following DSO, it could just be the start of a snowball into pushing Grade to hand back the PSB licences sooner rather than later.
Please correct me if I am in error, but I recall reading that, somewhat surprisingly, Granadaland, and not the London region, is ITV plc's most profitable region.
They will be studying the ratings more intently than ever for end of November and December, and if there is a further significant drop in viewing figures for Granada following DSO, it could just be the start of a snowball into pushing Grade to hand back the PSB licences sooner rather than later.
Please correct me if I am in error, but I recall reading that, somewhat surprisingly, Granadaland, and not the London region, is ITV plc's most profitable region.
Perhaps ? I was told that for accounting reasons London is still split between the old Weekday/Weekend Carlton/LWT arrangements, making Granada
the largest single region in terms of ad revenue.
Interesting article on BroadcastNow today regarding advances in negotiations for BBC and ITV sharing facilities for regional news.
BroadcastNow posted:
BBC director general Mark Thompson has confirmed that the BBC and ITV are close to a deal to enable the commercial broadcaster to continue to provide regional news into the next decade.
The broadcasters have been in talks about sharing facilities to help ITV to maintain its PSB duties despite declining advertising revenues and against the backdrop of the wider ongoing recession.
Thompson told the House of Lords Communications Committee today that the BBC and ITV had been in detailed discussions since last month.
"They're progressing very well," he said. "We are close to agreement on regional television. ITV has been positive about this approach. We hope to provide a way in which regional services on ITV, if that is the wish of ITV, Ofcom and the government, to continue into the next decade."
They just want the Beeb to pick up the tab. Not sure how I feel about this - certainly don't want ITV regional news to disappear, but I don't feel we should be paying for it either. If it did come out of the licence fee we'd effectively be paying twice for regional news.
They just want the Beeb to pick up the tab. Not sure how I feel about this - certainly don't want ITV regional news to disappear, but I don't feel we should be paying for it either. If it did come out of the licence fee we'd effectively be paying twice for regional news.
NOBODY is talking about ITV news being paid for from the BBC TV tax.
The proposals -
made by the BBC, not ITV
- are for ITV to share resources such as sat trucks, crews and studios and editorial content of a general nature such as press conferences, sports events and other non-original staged picture coverage, and library/b roll material
ITV will the add this material to their own original reports to create the separate show. Given how much regional news is VO over B roll of car crash/press conference/sport result/cat up a tree it makes complete sense.
The idea is to lower the cost of PSB broadcasting such as regional news for ITV by allowing it access to publicly paid for resources.
No extra costs will be incurred by BBC to provide this.
I was of course asking a rhetorical question.
2009 will bring redundancies to ITV on an unprecedented scale.
:-(
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Who knows what 2009 will bring ?
DSO in Granadaland.
They will be studying the ratings more intently than ever for end of November and December, and if there is a further significant drop in viewing figures for Granada following DSO, it could just be the start of a snowball into pushing Grade to hand back the PSB licences sooner rather than later.
Please correct me if I am in error, but I recall reading that, somewhat surprisingly, Granadaland, and not the London region, is ITV plc's most profitable region.
what happened to the South of england ( old TVS ) having this title?
Perhaps ? I was told that for accounting reasons London is still split between the old Weekday/Weekend Carlton/LWT arrangements, making Granada
the largest single region in terms of ad revenue.
Yes, the basic proposal from the BBC is that it might share some of its newsgathering operation with ITV.
A full agreement with ITVplc in England and Wales is, apparently, close. What's unclear - and maybe Gary knows more than me - is whether STV are interested. As you all know, it's currently arguing for direct public funding to maintain its current news service long-term.
The proposal is that the BBC and ITV might share buildings, certain technical resources and "diary" pictures - things like press conferences, GVs, football teams training on Friday morning.
But, of course, it begs big questions which would need to be sorted out first.
*What if ITV wants to cover a story and the BBC does not?
*If satellite trucks are shared, where is the 1800 ITV programme in the pecking order? Quite often, certainly here in Scotland, the BBC's trucks are in constant use through the late afternoon - a live piece for Radio Scotland, track and rushes to Reporting Scotland about 1700, possibly something for the News Channel or BBC1 network if the story is big enough and then a live top and tail for Rep Scot. If the BBC is only granting ITV access out of a sense of goodwill - rather than a proper commercial agreement where ITV meets some of the cost - then guess which programme won't get the live with the reporter?
I think that the practicalities are not top of the agenda at the moment - it is the agreement in principle that is being decided at the moment. Whether newsrooms co-site, studios are shared etc. is not the question at the moment.
In terms of SNG and ENG sharing - that can be done electronically these days (rushes could be stored on a file server and accessed by both operations - or restricted to one etc.) and trucks can be downlinked in multiple locations.
The actual pecking order, deployment agreements etc. and level of ITV-only and BBC-only facilities independently deployed will presumably decided later, as will the decisions about co-siting.
Don't see studio sharing as practical with the current schedules - but co-siting studios could make sense long-term.
Suspect both the BBC and ITV will be examining the length of outstanding leases and values of properties owned outright.
The presenting line-up for the new Lookaround service has been announced, with it launching in late February.Link
From former Tyne Tees - Ian Payne and Pam Royle will be the main presenters with Philippa Tomson becoming weather presenter / enviroment correspondent,
From former Border - Tim Backshall and John Bevir will become correspondents, with Fiona Armstrong presenting features. Helen Pearson becoming GMTV bulletins presenter (which would mean TTTV's Mark Warr becomes redundant in February or changes positions).
Plus reporters announced for Cumbria - though not the North East.