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Like the other contributors I'm not a fan of "what if's" but I'll add my thoughts anyway.
What business would consider running for no more than ten years?
You've got planning time up to running a service, possible TUPE employees and factor in redundancy at the end of the business time. What about any shareholders? They'll want a return and would never pitch in if they thought they'd have no profit at the end.
Theory:
Instead of potential companies fighting it out to win the franchises. What would ITV have looked like if each franchise had been given a fixed 10 year licence to broadcast and successors were privately chosen by the ITA under a strict series of criteria e.g Financial and quality thresholds.
Under the system, successful programs made by one company would be offered to their successor so the Men Behaving Badly sage would have been different.
EXAMPLE:
1968 to 1978: Yorkshire Television
1978 to 1988: Ridings Television
1988 to 1998: White Rose Television
1998 to 2008: ITV1 Yorkshire
Instead of potential companies fighting it out to win the franchises. What would ITV have looked like if each franchise had been given a fixed 10 year licence to broadcast and successors were privately chosen by the ITA under a strict series of criteria e.g Financial and quality thresholds.
Under the system, successful programs made by one company would be offered to their successor so the Men Behaving Badly sage would have been different.
EXAMPLE:
1968 to 1978: Yorkshire Television
1978 to 1988: Ridings Television
1988 to 1998: White Rose Television
1998 to 2008: ITV1 Yorkshire
Like the other contributors I'm not a fan of "what if's" but I'll add my thoughts anyway.
What business would consider running for no more than ten years?
You've got planning time up to running a service, possible TUPE employees and factor in redundancy at the end of the business time. What about any shareholders? They'll want a return and would never pitch in if they thought they'd have no profit at the end.