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ITV to launch shopping channel.

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DA
David
Larry the Loafer posted:
I hope they stop showing The Store on ITV now. I know not much thought goes into night time schedules but there's nothing more insulting to the eyes than watching what is essentially QVC with a studio audience.


It's nothing like QVC. It's much closer to the other JML UK based informercials with scripted questions and answers from presenter and guest and very well briefed members of the public saying just the right thing or asking just the right questions at the right time.
JO
Jon
Whataday posted:
That's the one! She always reminded me on Kirsty Young.

She wasn't Scottish?

I thought it was Jane McDonald.
NW
nwtv2003
amosc100 posted:
WillPS posted:
Of course, this is not the company's first attempt at online shopping.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tvhistory/defunct-pics/shop!.jpg


Wasn connection with Littlewoods

Also was it ITV or wasit Granada (I know both the same nowadays)

Lets not forget Wellbeing a collaboration between Boots and Granada


It was a joint venture between Granada and Littlewoods, broadcast from Albert Dock Studios in Liverpool, Littlewoods pulled the plug on the venture in early 2002, before Littlewoods themselves went under.

Although it started out as a 24hr service, by the end it was only broadcasting a few hours a day as it had nothing left to sell, probably one of the last things they did sell was a George Forman grill.
LL
London Lite Founding member
nwtv2003 posted:


It was a joint venture between Granada and Littlewoods, broadcast from Albert Dock Studios in Liverpool, Littlewoods pulled the plug on the venture in early 2002, before Littlewoods themselves went under.


Littlewoods didn't go under, it was sold to the Barclay Brothers in late 2002.

Three years later it merged with Great Universal Stores (GUS) to form Shop Direct.
DJ
DJGM
Great ... yet another crappy shopping channel selling useless tat coming to waste more space on DTT/Freeview!
MI
Mike516
DJGM posted:
Great ... yet another crappy shopping channel selling useless tat coming to waste more space on DTT/Freeview!


On Freeview it's taking 7 hours on channel 39, which is already used for shopping. No additional capacity is being used.
DJ
DJGM
Eitherway, with the limited overall space on DTT/Freeview, the slots for teleshopping guff should be restricted.

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