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yeah... you're right. I suppose producing national programming is better source for revenue than dedicated local programming
Whatever happens, they'll still have dedicated programming for the nations, but in England, ITV still invest in regional news including sub-opts which were reintroduced after the last lot of cuts and a monthly regional Westminster show in all regions except Channel.
ITV also still does more hours per week than the small scale local channels where news is an interruption to playing music videos or simulcasting crap Freeview channels lower down the EPG. Or in the case of London Live, Covid-19 has been a excuse to stop producing the news.
The days of regional filler which on the whole were cheap as chips countryside formats have long gone.
Most of the Regional programming of yesteryear was utter rubbish that most people can live without (though I guess one man’s trash is another man’s treasure...). However I miss Central Weekend LIVE which was epic TV.
For all the criticism about ITV’s Regional News services, having realised that the previous Management team had gone too far in the last decade ITV have spent more on this type of programming since 2013. As rightly stated in previous posts, ITV still produce more localised programming than the Local TV network produce.
Heading back to the subject of UTV (along with ITV Wales), I hope that their National programming is produced for many years yet. Of course it’s not about what the channel is called, it’s about producing content for the Nations they serve. However a Welsh/Northern Ireland (delete as appropriate) ident or two, a pre-recorded announcement and some promotion for these National programmes (as opposed to Networked programming) isn’t too much to ask and I don’t mean simply adding the word ‘Wales’ or ‘Northern Ireland’ like tried (so badly) previously!
ITV management now could not care less about regional identity. I bet if ITV could junk all regional news commitments they would, they have scaled back regional news to the bare bones limit required by regulations.
yeah... you're right. I suppose producing national programming is better source for revenue than dedicated local programming
Whatever happens, they'll still have dedicated programming for the nations, but in England, ITV still invest in regional news including sub-opts which were reintroduced after the last lot of cuts and a monthly regional Westminster show in all regions except Channel.
ITV also still does more hours per week than the small scale local channels where news is an interruption to playing music videos or simulcasting crap Freeview channels lower down the EPG. Or in the case of London Live, Covid-19 has been a excuse to stop producing the news.
The days of regional filler which on the whole were cheap as chips countryside formats have long gone.
Most of the Regional programming of yesteryear was utter rubbish that most people can live without (though I guess one man’s trash is another man’s treasure...). However I miss Central Weekend LIVE which was epic TV.
For all the criticism about ITV’s Regional News services, having realised that the previous Management team had gone too far in the last decade ITV have spent more on this type of programming since 2013. As rightly stated in previous posts, ITV still produce more localised programming than the Local TV network produce.
Heading back to the subject of UTV (along with ITV Wales), I hope that their National programming is produced for many years yet. Of course it’s not about what the channel is called, it’s about producing content for the Nations they serve. However a Welsh/Northern Ireland (delete as appropriate) ident or two, a pre-recorded announcement and some promotion for these National programmes (as opposed to Networked programming) isn’t too much to ask and I don’t mean simply adding the word ‘Wales’ or ‘Northern Ireland’ like tried (so badly) previously!