When STV took the Bill off it was crap. The Main reason why STV took off ITV Show Which there have now stopped doing, so Im not sure why you still want to change areas, was because of
a court case in which STV did not lose
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Well you can spin that however you like, but the dispute resulted in a settlement between the two broadcasters, in which STV agreed to pay ITV something like £18m.
I believe ITV wanted double that amount of something above and STV said no, and went to court there did say from the start, there are willing to pay but not overpriced payments in which the court agreed.
That's not the case, the dispute was settled out of court.
At a time when ITV1 as a name hadn't really caught on yet, introducing another brand wasn't the best idea, and seemed rather likely to fail - admittedly I do say that with the benefit of hindsight.
With so many people saying/thinking this, I wonder if ITV plc might consider bringing back just plain old ITV (there is a rumour going round)...the other channels could still stay as ITV2 etc...
P.S - What's with 'Tonight' being on a Friday, bit depressing for the weekend surely? Monday or Thursday were perfect for this in my opinion. Right up there with moving News At Ten in the early 00's for me.
P.S - What's with 'Tonight' being on a Friday, bit depressing for the weekend surely? Monday or Thursday were perfect for this in my opinion. Right up there with moving News At Ten in the early 00's for me.
Didn't Tonight with Trevor Mcdonald run on Mondays and Fridays until the cutback to one episode a week and the move to Thursday?
P.S - What's with 'Tonight' being on a Friday, bit depressing for the weekend surely? Monday or Thursday were perfect for this in my opinion. Right up there with moving News At Ten in the early 00's for me.
Didn't Tonight with Trevor Mcdonald run on Mondays and Fridays until the cutback to one episode a week and the move to Thursday?
I'm sure that was the case. Granted, "with Trevor McDonald" should have been a looser title, considering he'd present the coming up sequence and little else.
P.S - What's with 'Tonight' being on a Friday, bit depressing for the weekend surely? Monday or Thursday were perfect for this in my opinion. Right up there with moving News At Ten in the early 00's for me.
Didn't Tonight with Trevor Mcdonald run on Mondays and Fridays until the cutback to one episode a week and the move to Thursday?
I'm sure that was the case. Granted, "with Trevor McDonald" should have been a looser title, considering he'd present the coming up sequence and little else.
It was meant to be on Thursday 7:30? but I think it got lost in the schedules when Corried move from Wednesday to Thursday. It would probably pick up a few more viewers inbetween corrie.
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It was meant to be on Thursday 7:30? but I think it got lost in the schedules when Corried move from Wednesday to Thursday. It would probably pick up a few more viewers inbetween corrie.[/quote]
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. I think it should be on at 8pm Monday as an alternative to the BBC's Eastenders. After all a 30 minute episode of 'Tonight' is never going to be a huge ratings winner...
P.S - What's with 'Tonight' being on a Friday, bit depressing for the weekend surely? Monday or Thursday were perfect for this in my opinion. Right up there with moving News At Ten in the early 00's for me.
Didn't Tonight with Trevor Mcdonald run on Mondays and Fridays until the cutback to one episode a week and the move to Thursday?
I'm sure that was the case. Granted, "with Trevor McDonald" should have been a looser title, considering he'd present the coming up sequence and little else.
It was meant to be on Thursday 7:30? but I think it got lost in the schedules when Corried move from Wednesday to Thursday. It would probably pick up a few more viewers inbetween corrie.
That's definitely where it used to be on the Monday nights, and I'm pretty sure it was on Fridays too. I agree it is probably the best slot - Mondays at 8pm. As you said, wedged between Coronation Street, it would probably pick up more viewers. I can't really think what is in that slot at the moment. Countrywise or something?
EDIT: Just looked and it is indeed Countrywise, which I would have thought would make more sense Thursdays 7:30, wedged between Emmerdale!
It was Monday & Friday at 8pm for years, it moved to Thursday at 7:30pm at the start of 2010 when Julie Etchingham took over and although it was cut back to once a week it now runs all year round. The previous slots used to take breaks during holidays and many weeks off in the Summer.
Note that it is still on Thursday at 7:30 as well as Friday at 8:00 at the moment. They are presumably extra editions to make up for those lost during the Euros and other recent schedule changes.
I think that we generally said "BBC" to mean BBC1 for many years. If we were talking about BBC2, we'd explicitly say "BBC2".
I think that "ITV" will be used colloquially all the time to refer to ITV1 by many people.
One of the reasons ITV became ITV1 was to draw attention to the fact that ITV now encompassed more channels (albeit unavailable for those who didn't have digital and that's a situation they don't really have to worry about any more).
Similarly, BBC tv was rebranded BBC1 to help to draw attention to the fact there was a BBC2 (albeit unavailable for those who didn't have UHF, a situation that lasted for some time).
