ITN officially win ITV contract

ITN has secured a new six-year £216m contract to supply ITV with Trevor McDonald's News at Ten and other bulletins. The contract is one year longer than anticipated and secures the company's future until 2009. Up to 100 jobs are expected to go, however.

Yes! All right!

More ITV News at When!!

Seriously, congrats to ITN, they did deserve that contract...

Hopefully the contract includes changing the set and graphics..!

Good. One less opportunity for evil Murdoch to take over the world has to be a good thing

Well done ITN!!!

2009?! Good god!

Well done to ITN anyway. Nice one.

Calm down people, although it is down to ITV to say what they want in their bulletins, ITV news is chronic.

*pulls out hair*

It wasn't bloody Murdoch. He owns a share of News International, which owns a share of BSkyB, which owned a share of Channel 3 News. So effectively he had rather small role to play. Anyway, Murdoch already has one interest in terrestrial telly... first one to tell me what it is wins a gold star.

All this means is that ITN's reputation will continue to fall until 2009. Lucky them... at least C3N didn't have a reputation to ruin.

C@t - is it Sky Five Text? (the Channel 5 Text service that generally calls itself 5 Text)

Any role is too much. The man is pure evil!

It is Five Text, but I'm not really prepared to give away my gold star. Sorry.

Murdoch isn't pure evil. He's an increadible businessman that's crafted the most successful satellite broadcaster on the planet, from the ground up. He has certainly made mistakes, and hasn't done wonders for The Times - although has for The Sun.

Not going to start a new topic about this, although doubtless someone else will. It's wonderful to see BBC correspondents in Kabul.

CNN had the Gulf War, Sky had Kosovo, and the BBC have Afghanistan? Looks like that's the way it's going to go.

>hasn't done wonders for The Times - although has for The Sun.

Heh heh. Kind of sums the guy up really

It's LWT!