Trust me on this STV did not need to make Jobfinder to met its regional programming quotas, and this was the case until 2001. But of course it was good brownie points
Looking at the ITC reports, only Central and YTV used Jobfinder to meet quotas.
If it was the case that these text services were used by all ITV companies in this way, Tyne Tees would hold the record for regional 'production' within the network given they were putting it out 35 hours a week at one point
I imagine it was one of those jokes that repeated so often obviously became fact. It was always the case that regional programming had to be in peak viewing times so obviously didn’t count.
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Well that's nonsense as demonstrated by the ITC Excel sheet above.
I believe it is actually the case that Nightscreen was being used in a similar manner at one stage.
That fact that Channel and STV used to produce their own versions of Nightscreen (Channel Nightscreen and the Nightshift) suggests that they contributed to their regional programming quotas.
If they didn't contribute to the regional quota, I expect they would have just taken ITV Nightscreen rather than making their own versions, as they would have had very little incentive to produce them, especially for Channel.
Wasn't Channel's reason because they needed a cheap filler to use then they had to opt out of the overnight gambling stuff the rest of ITV was showing for legal reasons?
I’m guessing Yorkshire and Central’s quotas must have been much higher than anyone else’s then, as they showed the same number of proper regional programmes as everyone else (due to the fact they all had the same regional slots) (in England)
By the way did Jon Hammond do anything else for YTV besides Jobfinder. I only know him from this and the famous ‘what’s in the box’ clip.
Still using the same 90s slideshow technology! Horribly dated for 2005, but then they weren't making it to be fancy, just cheap (probably virtually free) filler. I didn't even realise jobfinder was even still running that late!
Still the same music used in that Nightscreen video from 1998 too!
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I’m guessing Yorkshire and Central’s quotas must have been much higher than anyone else’s then, as they showed the same number of proper regional programmes as everyone else (due to the fact they all had the same regional slots) (in England)
That is correct. Roughly 15 hours/week, as opposed to around 10 hours that the other companies were generally committed to.
In practice YTV/Central were doing 10 hours/week like everyone else.
Well that's nonsense as demonstrated by the ITC Excel sheet above.
I believe it is actually the case that Nightscreen was being used in a similar manner at one stage.
That fact that Channel and STV used to produce their own versions of Nightscreen (Channel Nightscreen and the Nightshift) suggests that they contributed to their regional programming quotas.
If they didn't contribute to the regional quota, I expect they would have just taken ITV Nightscreen rather than making their own versions, as they would have had very little incentive to produce them, especially for Channel.
Wasn't Channel's reason because they needed a cheap filler to use then they had to opt out of the overnight gambling stuff the rest of ITV was showing for legal reasons?
Channel Nightscreen was a direct replacement for ITV Nightscreen.
Channel opted out of other programming such as gambling with things like The Way We Were, Pulling Power, Nightwatch, Studio Jam and regional programmes from other regions.
By the way did Jon Hammond do anything else for YTV besides Jobfinder. I only know him from this and the famous ‘what’s in the box’ clip.
Sure he used to read the Calendar News from time to time. Possibly the East opt out as that was my region. May have done the What's On slots sometimes as well.
What was the "What's in the Box" from? Clearly a night time programme, but no idea what. Was it simply linking the programmes? A rare foray into IVC for YTV?!
What was the "What's in the Box" from? Clearly a night time programme, but no idea what. Was it simply linking the programmes? A rare foray into IVC for YTV?!
It wasn't a YTV show. It was from a cable channel Wire TV based in Bristol.
By the way did Jon Hammond do anything else for YTV besides Jobfinder. I only know him from this and the famous ‘what’s in the box’ clip.
He was a regular on Radio Leeds, doing the mid morning show for a fair stint, before doing cover shifts from time to time. He did a week of special shows from the new Bradford studio at the museum when it first opened, on AM only while normal programmes from Leeds continued on FM.
I have a vague recollection that he turned up reading Look North bulletins during a strike once.
Not really. L!VE TV bought Wire TV (possibly for sports rights and carriage agreement reasons?) but the Bristol-based WireTV content operation really had nothing really to do with the Canary Wharf Janet Street Porter/Kelvin McKenzie operation that Mirror Group set-up to run L!VE TV and make content for it.
Wire TV was set-up by a consortium of cable companies (in the days before full consolidation of cable provision under the Virgin brand) and was an attempt to create a 'cable only' channel as a USP for cable (a bit like The Parliament Channel in the pre-BBC Parliament days). It ran a lot of lifestyle content during daytime and early evening, but ran sport as well.
There were plans to spin-off the sports output they had under the Sportswire brand to be a separate channel but I don't think anything came of that.
When the channel didn't really get anywhere - it was sold to Mirror Group who wanted to get into running TV channels.
By the way did Jon Hammond do anything else for YTV besides Jobfinder. I only know him from this and the famous ‘what’s in the box’ clip.
Still using the same 90s slideshow technology! Horribly dated for 2005, but then they weren't making it to be fancy, just cheap (probably virtually free) filler. I didn't even realise jobfinder was even still running that late!
