The 1991 Franchise round - 20 years on - Page 2

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A former member 26 September 2011 11:01pm

IBA should have been kept, and should have also had control over Sky and cable channels. Some aspect of the Franchise I dare say would have been kept in, such as one company own two stations etc.

I starting to think HTV and, Yorkshire should have went, I know if TVS had stayed it would have merged with LWT at speed of light, and dare say Southampton would have closed, Kent house would have been used for play out and CA only kept for weekdays at Maidstone.

I don't know. It's a tough one. On one hand we keep the integrity of ITV but are limited to four channels, on the other hand we have access to many hundreds of channels but all of decreasing quality.

Why cant we have both? I dare say we would not have had Hundreds but we would still have a good amount that have decent stuff on the box, ITV would have merged as "Producer" company and not like Granada or Carlton idea., and CH5 idea would have give anyone a bit of compations

NW

nwtv2003 26 September 2011 11:03pm

aberdeenboy posted:

meant the end of the god slot,

From what I've read before that was LWT and Greg Dyke pushing for the god slot to be axed, so basically they could show 'Diet Coke Premieres' on a sunday night. Don't forget this was ITV on a Sunday before Heartbeat and Coronation Street dominated the prime time bit.

aberdeenboy posted:

and the 1210 children's slot... but in the longer term changed ITV fundamentally.

As you say later on, this would have happened anyway. It's not as if ITV had removed the 20 minutes slot altogether, they just added it onto the CITV block later in the day. Don't forget at this time you still had Sesame Street on Channel 4 at lunchtime.

WP

WillPS 27 September 2011 12:04am

robertclark125 posted:

Was it also true that TVS's financial projections actually turned out to be correct, but Meridian were allowed to reduce their payments to the ITC in 1995/6?

This is the real failing of the system. Rather than having a system where companies would die if they overbid, the ITC bottled and allowed the original bids to essentially become meaningless pieces of paper. GMTV ended up paying less than TVam had bid.

IS

Inspector Sands 27 September 2011 1:11am

623058 posted:

IBA should have been kept, and should have also had control over Sky and cable channels.

What you've described is what we got, which was the ITC.

There's no way that we could have had the IBA as it was which also overlooked satellite and cable channels. Under the IBA stations were under their control and held to quite strict technical standards, applying them to hundreds of digital channels just wouldn't work. Having a 2-tier situation whereby ITV and C4 were very heavily regulated and the sat/cable ones less so wouldn't have worked either

The 1991 Franchise round - 20 years on

(September 2011)