Would they use this on screen as well as for the company, as effectively the on screen is the company. Or will they do a uktv+ and have the channel logo, and then have it transforming into this logo? It could work well with the outside lines being extended in what ever direction to include the other part of the channel name.
Would they use this on screen as well as for the company, as effectively the on screen is the company. Or will they do a uktv+ and have the channel logo, and then have it transforming into this logo? It could work well with the outside lines being extended in what ever direction to include the other part of the channel name.
I doubt it, considering they shelled out money to try and establish that blue and yellow look they've got now. It wouldn't make sense to have 3 rebrands in 18 months. Look at Sky for example, they've one logo for their commercial interests (Sky Digital, installation etc.) and one for on-screen. *Although this corporate ITV logo is no different from on-screen*
EDIT: If I ruled the world, I'd disband the Border region. Southern Scotland would either have a fully seperate, stand-alone news programme, or recieve central Scotland's news, but with a sub-opt (like BBC South (Oxford)). In either case, it could come from either new studios in, say, Dumfries, or from a small studio in Glasgow, down the corridor from the main Scotland Today studio (again, like BBC South (Oxford)).
This would mean that Tyne Tees would in fact have to become "ITV1 North East & Cumbria", thus standardising with their BBC counterpart. But they could keep the Carlisle studios, for a BBC-South-(Oxford)-style sub-opt (which would also report Manx news), giving them one over the BBC.
No no no no no no no no no!
The WORST thing that could happen is that. BBC NE&C has shockingly bad coverage because it is simply too big and does not have enough resources to cover the super-region.
On the topic of BBC NE&C, I'd break it up into 3 regions (NOT sub-opts), one for Cumbria, one for N Yorkshire, South County Durham & 'the Tees Valley' (Cleveland) and another for Northumberland, North County Durham and Tyne and Wear. County Durham would be split because Pontop does not reach further South than Durham, so Bilsdale would cover the rest.
Tyne Tees should stay as it is. It provides an excellent news service, especially by using Billingham (TTTV South) as the second newsroom & studio. I've never seen Border news, but I hear it is satisfactory.
Future ITV News chief defends its regional strategy
By Julie Tomlin
A single, merged ITV will not lead to “Stalinistic control” of regional news from London, the company’s future head of news has claimed.
Clive Jones, currently ITV’s joint managing director, will take up his new role as chief executive of ITV’s News Division next February.
Speaking at the Television from the Nations and Regions conference in Salford on Wednesday, Jones said regional news would remain a licence commitment. He added that “savings” as a result of the merger “can be and will be ploughed back into the news operation”.
A priority would be “a more coherent and continuous look to national and regional news”, said Jones, adding that he wanted the programmes to be “relatives and not strangers”.
Closer ties between the national and regional news operations did not mean the agenda would be set by London, he claimed, saying it was “not about Stalinistic control from metropolitan England”.
But, he added, a single ITV would lead to changes and “some of the facilities would be closed down because we have too many of them”.
“We are running a commercial business; we are not a publicly funded organisation and we can’t employ people if there isn’t the money to do so.
“Regional television is not about bricks and mortar.We can’t remain in buildings dreamt up in the Seventies, built in the Eighties and redundant in the Nineties,” Jones added, defending the decision to close a number of regional studios.
Steve Hewlett, Carlton’s director of programmes, said: “The debate has got to break out of buildings and facilities.
ITV will succeed if it lights the touchpaper underneath its regional ambitions.”
Regional amibitions , crap!
They have savaged Meridian by using "state of the art" equipment to move forward . Presumably that means one grand PCs on the journo desks running off central servers to allow them to "edit" stories , get rid of skilled editors etc etc .
Granada news has robotic cameras they dare not move , director-vision mixers etc etc .
These cheap models will surely roll out right across the merged franchises post Feb 2nd . Tell me that is a company with ambition and not one preparing to sell to Americans in the summer ?????
There is no hope for ITV regions . BBC will sweep up ! Disastrous !
Regional amibitions , crap!
They have savaged Meridian by using "state of the art" equipment to move forward . Presumably that means one grand PCs on the journo desks running off central servers to allow them to "edit" stories , get rid of skilled editors etc etc .
Granada news has robotic cameras they dare not move , director-vision mixers etc etc .
These cheap models will surely roll out right across the merged franchises post Feb 2nd . Tell me that is a company with ambition and not one preparing to sell to Americans in the summer ?????
There is no hope for ITV regions . BBC will sweep up ! Disastrous !
Maybe they're just following the Westcountry model of running a regional operation. Keep it lean
