itv.com relaunch

Has anybody been to the itv website recently (itv.com ? It's been revamped. Does this add weight to the opinions on tomorrow's station ident relaunch for ITV1?

bloody hell, it's on the itv.com server now!


I like the http://www.itv.com/img/cms/itv/righthandteaser/moneky_itvdigital.jpg logo

(Edited by khlo at 6:32 pm on Oct. 5, 2001)

Strange what happens when you hover your mouse over Regions and select granada :

It's even stranger when you try LWT

Rather a nice new look for ITV, but if you look closely you'll notice that the web addresses have changed, so where each progeamme used to have its own domain, it now has itv.com/showname.

And even itv.com/gmtv

Am I missing something obvious here or isnt the ITV logo on their website exactly the same as the current one ?

Go to itv.com and see the new look. The logo is the same, but no-one said it had changed!

Click on ITV news on itv.com, and you are forwarded to itn.co.uk with this message,

'ITN is pleased to announce that it will shortly be providing a comprehensive online news service to ITV. ITV is the largest and most popular commercial television service in the UK. The online news service will cover Britain, World, Entertainment and Sport and complements the on-screen ITV News already produced by ITN.

ITN.co.uk will also be re-launched as a news portal, providing fast-access links to ITV's new web site. There will also be links to the news services that we already produce for Channel 4 News, 5 News and LBC, together with a seven language news web site for EuroNews-the pan-European news channel owned and operated by ITN. ITN.co.uk will also include regularly updated promotions and our first comprehensive company section.

We are simultaneously launching Britain's first 3D news environment on ITN.co.uk, offering news headlines, video and audio content to users with suitably equipped PCs. Developed in conjunction with Smart VR, this 3D environment is just one example of the cutting-edge technologies that ITN is deploying to make multimedia news content more accessible and compelling to consumers.

These changes will come into effect on October 9th 2001.

We hope you enjoy these new services.'

So, this all happens tomorrow then.

Granada - no link to site
Tyne Tees - no link to site
LWT - links to Tyne Tees, which itself has no link to site
YTV - no link to site
Anglia - OK
Meridian - OK
HTV West - OK
HTV Wales - OK
Carlton London - links to http://www.carlton.com - but should lead to http://tv.carlton.com if idents are right!
Carlton Central - leads to Central News - menu for London Tonight, Central South, East and West, and Westcountry's news.
Carlton Westcountry - leads to Westcountry's subpage.
Border - leads to http://www.border-tv.co.uk - the wrong site, the right one is a .com
Channel - OK
UTV - referred to as Northern Ireland, but links to correct site
Grampian - OK
Scottish - missing

No problem with the former United regions then! :GMG's don't link correctly at all - the sites haven't moved or anything!!! :angry: Carlton's links from ITV have improved and Granada's site still links to http://www.itv.co.uk - I typed in the url http://www.granada.com then clicked on broadcasting then Tyne Tees (same fault with any of them)

Er, are you sure it was Granada.com?

OOPS! Sorry, it's granada.co.uk - but there is no link from ITV.