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STV to drop ITV Evening News

(September 2009)

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GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
If the date decided, can anyone record the "last" ITV EN bulletin on STV and first STV News "full hour" bulletin, as well as ITV EN bulletin on the same day it launches?

If ITV LN has a promo for EN, can anyone also record the promo on that day?


Bit early for cap requests, innit?
DV
DVB Cornwall
ITV takes legal action against STV to recover 'up to £38M' of unpaid network programme payments

ITV plc has today launched legal proceedings against Scottish channel 3 broadcaster STV in a bid to recover what it claims is up to £38m in unpaid network programme budget contributions.

STV, which owns the ITV1 licences for central and north Scotland, has increasingly opted out of a raft of ITV plc-produced network programmes, such as The Bill and Doc Martin, in a bid to save money and boost homegrown commissions.

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(NB Posted in three relevant threads)
NG
noggin Founding member
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/sep/23/stv-standalone-north-scotland-news

Not sure if this has been mentioned earlier in the thread, but it confirms the plans to downgrade the former Grampian patch to a shorter regional bulletin, but to increase the number of sub-regions with the shorter duration. Not sure if this is tied to the hour-long 1800-1900 Scottish show, or whether they'll do it anyway...

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