ITV Discussion Thread

Just watching Corrie on ITV1 HD and the DOG looks a lot darker and nearly fully opaque. In some scenes it looks a very deep dark grey.

I might just be me, but someone else also commented on it.

Why would ITV mess up the one DOG they finally got right?? Hopefully its just a blip!

Here's something of significance for ITV (and Channel 5) then :

Ofcom has slashed the £20m-plus per year cost of ITV and Channel 5 regional broadcasting licences to almost zero, in recognition of the cost of delivering public service obligations such as news and current affairs.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/oct/01/ofcom-slashes-regional-broadcasting-licences

The regulator has decided to slash the cost to just £10,000 per licence per year, backdated to the start of 2010.

Where are the smaller itv companies and stv? Do I take it they are paying less than ten grand already?

Will ITV 2 HD get a new look?

edit: I have seen the logo on [url]wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV2_HD[/url] , so presumably no?

Each franchise bid what they thought they would get away with - on the basis that the quality threshold knocked out some competing candidates irrespective of their financial bid.

STV and (I think) Central bid £2,000 per annum and won, as there was no serious contender for the franchise - so it would have been foolish to pay more.

Yorkshire - didn't they bid £15m a year for their licence?

Borders and the Isle of Man
Border was unopposed in their challenge to continue their broadcasting. They bidded £52,000 and the ITC was happy with their business plan and therefore were able to continue broadcasting from 1993.

Central Scotland
Like Border, Scottish were unchallenged and bidded £2000 to continue broadcasting from 1993.

Channel Islands
There were two bidders for the Channel Islands, these were Channel Television who bidded the lowest as a whole in the bidding wars and CI3 who bidded ten times as Channel at £102,000 . However the ITC felt that CI3 did not meet the quality threshold and so the franchise was awarded to Channel.

East of England
Three bidded contested the prize to broadcasting for the East of England. These were Anglia Television who bidded £17.8million , Three East who bidded £14.1million and CPV-TV who bidded £10.1 million but failed on the quality factor. As Anglia and Three East passed the quality threshold, it was Anglia who won the franchise as they paid the most money to broadcast.

London Weekday
The hotly contested London area attracted a lot of interest namely on Carlton who wanted the area very much. Carlton bidded £43.2million , CPV-TV bidded higher at £45.3million but failed on quality grounds and Thames bidded the lowest at £32.5million but they were hoping that the ITC would consider their application on the terms of their past history. However, the ITC awarded the franchise to Carlton.

London Weekend
There were two bidders for the London Weekend franchise. These were LWT who bidded £7.58million and London Independent Broadcasting who bidded four times as much at £35.4million but they failed on quality grounds and so the franchise was awarded to LWT.

Midlands
There was only one bidder for the Midlands region. Central who bidded only £2000 knew that they were likely to be unopposed by anybody else and their risk was paid off as the ITC awarded Central a contract to continue broadcasting from 1993.

National Breakfast
There were three bidders for the National Breakfast franchise. These were TV-am who bidded a safe £14.12million, Daybreak TV who bidded £33.3million and Sunrise who later became GMTV bidded a winning £34.8million . The franchise awards will be rememberable as Maragaret Thatcher gave her a heart felt apology in letter format to Bruce Gygnell saying sorry for what she had done.

North of Scotland
This area gain interest for three bidders. These were C3 Caledonia who bidded £1.13million and North of Scotland TV who bidded £2.71million. Both of these failed on quality grounds and the franchise was awarded to Grampian who bidded the smallest at £720,000 .

North East of England
There were two bidders for the North East region. They were North East Television who bidded £5million and Tyne Tees Television who bidded £15.1million . Both met the ITC's quality threshold which meant that Tyne Tees had won has they bidded the most money.

North West of England
Two bidders for the North West which were Granada Television who bidded £9million and North West TV who bidded £35.3million but failed on quality. This meant Granada was awarded the franchise and they continued broadcasting from 1993.

Northern Ireland
Three bidders contested for Northern Ireland. These were TVni who bidded £3.1million but failed on their business plan. Lagan bidded £2.7million but failed on the quality threshold and Ulster Television bidded the lowest at £1.02million but successfully kept their franchise from 1993 onwards.

South and South East of England.
There were four bidders for this region. These were Carlton who bidded £18.1million, CPV-TV who bidded £22.1million and failed on quality grounds. TVS, the existing holder overbid at £59.8million which caused controvesery as their business plan met the ITC's criteria. The franchise went to Meridian Broadcasting which bidded £36.5million .

South West of England
Three bidders were interested in the South West. These were Telewest who bidded £7.3million but failed on quality. TSW who were broadcasting at the time bidded £16.1million but it was felt too high by the ITC and they also felt that they wouldn't be able to sustain a decent service over their franchise period and so the franchise was awarded to Westcountry Television who bidded £7.8million .

Wales and West of England
There were four bidders which were C3W who bidded £17.8million. Merlin (£19.4milliion) and C3 Wales and the West <C3WW> (£18.3million) failed on quality grounds and HTV successfully bidded the highest at £20.5million and continued broadcasting from 1993.

Yorkshire
There were three bidders for the Yorkshire area. These were White Rose who bidded £17.4million, Viking who bidded £30.1million but failed on quality and Yorkshire who successfully bidded £37.7million and the like all the successful above, Yorkshire and the rest were able to broadcast from 1993.