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ITV 'expected to secure CRR changes'

Grade's magic begins? (August 2007)

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He's campaigned for it long enough, now Michael Grade's pleas for the CRR to be reviewed appear to have been listened to:

Quote:
ITV is expected to secure its much-hoped for review of the Contract Rights Renewal mechanism, according to The Sunday Telegraph.

The Office for Fair Trading will announce before the end of the summer whether CRR will be reviewed, but the newspaper quoted a Deutsche Bank analyst who said that a number of "vested interests have made the case that a weak ITV means a weak television industry."

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/a72583/itv-expected-to-secure-crr-changes.html?id=72583

If accepted, 2008 could be a very different year. Who knows what Grade would do if the corporation didn't have to worry so much about amazing ratings? Less soap? Less reality? Bolder commissions?

What does everybody think about this?
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A former member
It mean there shop dumping show all over the place after 1 bad week!

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