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Last edited by DVB Cornwall on 18 October 2011 9:53am
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Charlie Wells Moderator
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ITV plc buys Channel Television
ITV plc is to buy Channel Television, the Channel Islands commercial TV broadcaster, in a move towards further consolidation of the channel 3 licence network.

Article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/oct/18/itv-plc-buys-channel-television

Assuming it gets approved by the Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority it will mean an end to what was essentially a fine dodge/reduction by ITV Plc in them using Channel TV's legal compliance services for their major shows.
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Inspector Sands
Charlie Wells posted:
Assuming it gets approved by the Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority it will mean an end to what was essentially a fine dodge/reduction by ITV Plc in them using Channel TV's legal compliance services for their major shows.

No it won't, the fines are according to size of region and that's not changing even if the owners are
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James Vertigan Founding member
They'd better not be making Oscar Puffin redundant... there'll be a public outcry!
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nwtv2003
It makes sense for ITV to buy them assuming they can still get away with the Ofcom fine dodges etc, but I can't help but feel it's the end for Channel Television, I'm quite surprised they've been independent for so long.
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DVB Cornwall
Statement now available on the Channel Television website .....

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WWW.CHANNELONLINE.TV/CHANNELONLINE
18-Oct-2011 @ 10:54
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gottago
Wow, really didn't see that coming. Presumably more to do with the compliance side of it as there surely can't be much to be made from advertising there. I wonder if it's only a matter of time before the news programme merges with Meridian?
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Gavin Scott Founding member
DVB Cornwall posted:
Statement now available on the Channel Television website .....

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WWW.CHANNELONLINE.TV/CHANNELONLINE
18-Oct-2011 @ 10:54


"SMG owns the two Scottish licences, Scottish Television and Grampian" - except of course they changed their name to STVplc some years ago.

Does news take a long time to get to Jersey, then?
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Jonny
channelonline.tv posted:
This change of ownership comes as Channel Television is about to enter its 50th anniversary year and marks an important and exciting step in the company’s future. Channel Television is proud of its strong local heritage and under ITV’s ownership, will continue to serve the communities in the islands with high quality news, information and factual programming.

Good luck with that...
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IM
One down, three to go.
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A former member
Trying to aquire the the other three may not be that easy, its taken them this long to get channel who takes all of itv1 programmes and brandingl, expect overnights. Bar puffin, localnews what local show does make?
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robertclark125
gottago posted:
Wow, really didn't see that coming. Presumably more to do with the compliance side of it as there surely can't be much to be made from advertising there. I wonder if it's only a matter of time before the news programme merges with Meridian?


If the news programme merged with that of Meridian, would this possibly mean a super region, like Tyne Tees and Border? The BBC already has such a region, BBC South, though they do produce an opt out on their regional news show, South Today, for the Channel Islands. I though can't help but think that there will be economies before long, and it'll be Channel that will be affected, behind the scenes mainly.

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