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Granada to be renamed ITV Production

ITV management shake-up (September 2005)

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GM
GMTV
goodbye Granada

1956-2005
JE
Jez Founding member
GMTV posted:
goodbye Granada

1956-2005


Granada will still be the region for the north west England though, and also produce programmes such as Corrie but they will be branded an ITV production.
JA
james2001 Founding member
Jez posted:
GMTV posted:
goodbye Granada

1956-2005


Granada will still be the region for the north west England though, and also produce programmes such as Corrie but they will be branded an ITV production.


Look at why it was who made the post though. GMTV AKA Paul Akinbola AKA UKTV games....
JO
johnofhertford
Londoner posted:
It seems that as part of the shake-up, Charles Allen is relocating from the South Bank to Gray's Inn Road to take a more hands-on role.


No, Simon Shaps is.
LO
Londoner
johnofhertford posted:
Londoner posted:
It seems that as part of the shake-up, Charles Allen is relocating from the South Bank to Gray's Inn Road to take a more hands-on role.

No, Simon Shaps is.

Broadcast posted:
Allen to move to Grays Inn Road
1.15pm: Charles Allen, ITV's chief executive today said he would also be moving office to join the new management line up of ITV at Grays Inn Road.
RD
rdd Founding member
Basically it seems they've decided to run the Network Centre as if it were a wholly owned subsidary of ITV plc, instead of what it actually is, supposed to be commissioning the programming for the network independent of tbe regional companies. ITV Network Limited is in fact the old ITV trade association (ITCA/ITVA) renamed, and is still owned by all of the ITV companies (including Scottish/Grampian/UTV). But if the top ITV plc management are going to be there looking over the NC's shoulder, how can it be independent?
BR
Brekkie
No great surprise - it always seemed strange they kept the Granada name when all other regions were dropped.

I wonder if we'll just get plain old "ITV Production" all the time, or whether - like Granada does now - they'll keep hold of some regionality with "ITV Manchester", "ITV Yorkshire", "ITV London" etc. productions.
JE
Jez Founding member
Maybe they will do the same as they do for regional and have " ITV Granada, an ITV Production" or "ITV Yorkshire, an ITV production" etc for network series as well.
HA
harshy Founding member
Brekkie Boy posted:
No great surprise - it always seemed strange they kept the Granada name when all other regions were dropped.

I wonder if we'll just get plain old "ITV Production" all the time, or whether - like Granada does now - they'll keep hold of some regionality with "ITV Manchester", "ITV Yorkshire", "ITV London" etc. productions.


They'll need to keep some regionality, it will be a shame to completely drop the names.
RM
Richard M
They should just use the regional logos. It never did make sense to use Granada as the production company for Emmerdale for exmaple when it is made by Yorkshire ITV.

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