MediaGuardian reporting that STV are to drop the ITV Evening News in favour of a local, national and international news hour produced in partnership with ITN.
What are the chances that this new "news hour" will have a big pan-regional element, including the old Grampian region as one of the opts, rather than them producing the whole hour themselves? Well, if it's good enough for ITV plc...
:-(
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But STILL if the NEW stv show gets the go ahead it would still only reach 4 million people, still lower than any other news programme
What are the chances that this new "news hour" will have a big pan-regional element, including the old Grampian region as one of the opts, rather than them producing the whole hour themselves? Well, if it's good enough for ITV plc...
Why would that be the case when STV are
increasing
sub opts not decreasing them?
STV are just getting silly now and being completely unrealistic. The news output, from a presentation point of view, is going to look a mess and I don't think what they're planning is going to be financially viable. By the sounds of it they're going to have ITV Morning/Lunchtime/Weekend news with one set of branding, STV news with another and News at Ten with yet another. That is unless STV opt out of all ITV News output.
I think they'd be best dropping News at Ten, or indeed airing 'STV News at Ten', in favour of a 45 minute round up with all the different sub regions.
Last edited by TV Geek on 17 September 2009 6:35pm