On media.guardian.com they have a stoty that regional output could be cut in half, with the late bulletin after the news at ten, with a more closly linked newshour at 6, and a forty five minute lunchtime program. seems they are getting desparate and are coppying the BBC.
No ITV want to cut out the 'ragbag' of regional programming some of the regions will cut back to 8 hours a week. But HTV & Scottish would have more. They want to concentrate their cash on regional news programming.
I have to say this is not a bad idea, the regional programming in Yorkshire is awful really, A Brush with Ashley, Magic Moments, The Dales Diary must bring in tiny amounts of viewers.
We would get an integrated 'News Hour' between 6pm & 7pm, 45 minutes of news at lunchtime and the late regional bulletin brought forward and integrated within News at Ten.
PH
Philatio
Have to agree. 99% of Granadas regional output is abysmal.
Remember Tony H Wilsons footy quiz?.
Hey hold on, just because the output of a few large stations has become crap that is not a reason to kill off regional programming. It is the only proper representation distinctive smaller regions like Northern Ireland, the North East and South West etc have, with no national output.
I've stood up for Tyne Tees' regional output in the past, and I'll do so again. They do an excellent job of representing their area locally and I think it'd be a tragedy if ITV were to destroy all the good work done by the station over the last few years to reverse the cycle of decline brought about by evil YTV. In any case, your Dales Diary is not a YTV production. It's a Tyne Tees programme, produced by a Tyne Tees ex-staffer and gets very high ratings in the NE (around 28-33% even though it's directly against Eastenders, very commendable). Just because it's aimed at an older audience and you don't like it doesn't mean it's crap!! Would you rather have wall-to-wall soaps and Ground Force clones? Cos that's what ITV1's national output is like. Sometimes the only quality TV on ITV1 is the regional stuff!!!
AN
andyeighteen
i reakon they should try inproving the output in regions where its c r a p, rather than scrap it all together. seems to me to be cost cutting. companies like granada would rather produce programs they can sell on abroad or to be repeated on cable/digital channels etc. rather than invest in regional prog.
not all big companies are poor preformers, central, in my oppinion produce high quality regional shows, eg, central sports special, , central weekend live, our house, pulling power, its your shout, 30 minutes, heart of the country (so succesfull carlton london cloned it for a london version- carlton country).
i think the itc should be sacked if itv get away with it
AJ
Aaron J Tibbett
On the other hand, although I also think regional programming has it's place in the schedules, the so called regional slot on Fridays on Anglia shows 2 repeat episodes of Coronation St!!!
Carlton London shows 2 regional programmes though, albeit Our House which is only semi-regional, but better than Coronation St repeats!!!
Hey hold on, just because the output of a few large stations has become crap that is not a reason to kill off regional programming. It is the only proper representation distinctive smaller regions like Northern Ireland, the North East and South West etc have, with no national output.
I've stood up for Tyne Tees' regional output in the past, and I'll do so again. They do an excellent job of representing their area locally and I think it'd be a tragedy if ITV were to destroy all the good work done by the station over the last few years to reverse the cycle of decline brought about by evil YTV. In any case, your Dales Diary is not a YTV production. It's a Tyne Tees programme, produced by a Tyne Tees ex-staffer and gets very high ratings in the NE (around 28-33% even though it's directly against Eastenders, very commendable). Just because it's aimed at an older audience and you don't like it doesn't mean it's crap!! Would you rather have wall-to-wall soaps and Ground Force clones? Cos that's what ITV1's national output is like. Sometimes the only quality TV on ITV1 is the regional stuff!!!
And just how much programming has Tyne Tees contributed to the ITV network ? errrrr......... let's face it, Tyne Tees don't make good TV, and without Yorkshire they'd be dead in the water.
GE
geordster
sorry, no thats rubbish... you look at the schedule of YTV and for that matter Granada over the last years and you will find many programmes passed off in the regional slots are actually made by Tyne Tees. Over the past 2 years the station has made huge strides in the quality of its regional output whilst Network 'powerhouses' such as Granada and YTV have let their regional output wither. Tyne Tees have long since given up on making networked programmes namely because their production arm is now part of Yorkshire Tyne Tees productions and controlled from Leeds. They do however seem to get more on the network than HTV...
You tell'em!! I'm so sick of people dissing Tyne Tees, many of whom probably have never even seen the station. TT was in the past a company with more regional pride than your crappy YTVs and Granadas and Centrals put together. They made network programming that was at times genuinely groundbreaking (The Tube?), and won many, many awards for it's regional output. It's continuity/presentation, whilst technically limited, was generally regarded as being one of the most 'in-tune' with it's viewers of any station.
The company was destroyed by Yorkshire Television, but many of the staff there somehow managed to cling on to their jobs and are now producing some of the best regional programming once again, certainly by far and away the best of the non-United Granada stations. They, even now, have a genuine affinity with their viewers, despite the spiteful actions of YTV over the years, and their regional programming is amongst the highest-rated of any ITV company.
So don't you come here telling me that TT isn't very good just because it is prevented from producing network programming in any great numbers.
And 'without Yorkshire it'd be dead in the water'???!?!?!?!?!
I get the impression you are deliberately trying to goad me here.
It is widely known what a complete bunch of spiteful incompetents YTV were in the mid-1990s, and as I am sure you must be aware 99% of the problems TT have had have been down to that lot in Leeds. Was it not YTV who made one of the most massive cock-ups in 1994 double-booking advertisements, which led to the resignation of half the board? And how did they get round it? Not by reducing YTV's budgets, oh no, they did it by accelerating the demise under their control of the NE station.
Yorkshire Television has been a constant thorn in the side of Tyne Tees since 1974, and it is frankly deeply insulting to imply that they have done anything positive, at any time, that they have not taken back 3 times over with the other hand. So they've improved technical standards. So f***ing what, is all I can say, when they sacked 80% of the workforce, so TT can't even use half of it!!!!!