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ITV Radio?

(February 2004)

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Sir Richard Rotcod
From today's Sunday Times...
Quote:
[Richard] Huntingford believes that one of the moves could come from the new ITV plc. “ITV will be looking at a growth phase, so a big radio acquisition would certainly be an option for them.”


Could be interesting if this came to pass. Integrated radio news services with the regional TV news?

Or, more likely, 24/7 Ant & Dec!
MN
MarkNewby
Sounds like they could be thinking of making an offer to EMAP to me... they'd certainly have the power behind them, as they are now [as ITV plc] one of the UK's largest media groups.
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TELEVISION
Radio next, ITV are certainly becoming a very big player in the media.
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A former member
Interesting... if they took over EMAP, could they rename "The HITS" something like "ITV Music"? Then they'd have an extra channel under their belt.
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Blob
They would need to change the name, you carn't have ITV Radio because it stands for Independant TeleVision Radio. It doesn't make sense
NH
Nick Harvey Founding member
Oh no!

And just as we thought all the confusion over what the letters "GMG" stand for was finally over.

They should have done it BEFORE the merger, then GMG (WRONG use of abbreviation) could have bought GMG (CORRECT use of abbreviation)!
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A former member
Independent Television Radio - it does make sense - it's radio owned by Independent Television...
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A former member
God, it'll be like GWR only worse...
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Blob
But how can it be radio if its television
PE
Pete Founding member
Blob posted:
But how can it be radio if its television


I take it somebody didn't read the bumf that the BBC put out when launching BBC7 then.
HC
Hatton Cross
Bob McBignob posted:
God, it'll be like GWR only worse...


Come on - nothing can be worse than GWR... Crying or Very sad
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stuartfanning
IRN is untimately owned by ITV plc isn't it?

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