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LNN move to ITN confirmed.

(October 2003)

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Turnbull and Williams
CPFC posted:
Turnbull & Williams posted:
The real point here is that ITV was set up as a network of regional stations, producing high quality, dedicated regional programming IN HOUSE. These regional identities are rapidly disappearing, as are the high quality programmes, which is very sad and flies in the face of everything ITV once stood for.

I can envisage a time when the BBC regions produce more programmes than the so-called ITV regional broadcasters.


Well, I see you're a fully paid-up member of the 'BBC Brigade'! It was inevitable that ITV would become a single company, it was just a question of how and when. Some forumers are romanticising the regional days as if they were really that special, when I bet they were taking it for granted. If this merger improves the quality of programmes on ITV, and they do stick to their promise on regional proramming thne nobody should be complaining.


Sadly I have serious doubts about their ability to keep promises like that. Although if I'm proved wrong I'll happily eat my words.
WH
Whataday Founding member
CPFC posted:
If this merger improves the quality of programmes on ITV, and they do stick to their promise on regional proramming thne nobody should be complaining.


Of course not. However, it remains to be seen if that is the case. I'm just saying that I doubt it will be the case.

They're already cutting down on regional slots, meaning that HTV had to screen its countryside programme Grassroots at some ridculous time like 11:30pm, but that's for a different thread.

They're always going to do the bare minimum required for the regions, and that minimum will get a lot smaller over the next few years.
LU
Luke
Whataday posted:
CPFC posted:
If this merger improves the quality of programmes on ITV, and they do stick to their promise on regional proramming thne nobody should be complaining.


Of course not. However, it remains to be seen if that is the case. I'm just saying that I doubt it will be the case.

They're already cutting down on regional slots, meaning that HTV had to screen its countryside programme Grassroots at some ridculous time like 11:30pm, but that's for a different thread.

They're always going to do the bare minimum required for the regions, and that minimum will get a lot smaller over the next few years.


Well the government should concentrate on regulating this aspect, instead of letting the Americans have a free-for-all on our telly!
WH
Whataday Founding member
CPFC posted:
Well the government should concentrate on regulating this aspect, instead of letting the Americans have a free-for-all on our telly!



They should, but they don't.
:-(
A former member
11am: ITN is to take over Carlton and Granada's local London news operation, LNN.

From Media Guardian


Oh this is bad!
LU
Luke
What does this mean for the team of presenters and reporters at London Tonight? Will most of them be replaced?!
LO
Londoner
Full story: http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1065324,00.html

Broadcast is reporting 40 job losses
LO
Londoner
It's not clear from the Media Guardian piece whether ITN is taking over the LNN company, or whether ITN has been awarded the news contract for the London ITV providers instead of LNN.
:-(
A former member
James Hatts posted:
It's not clear from the Media Guardian piece whether ITN is taking over the LNN company, or whether ITN has been awarded the news contract for the London ITV providers instead of LNN.


If the latter were the case, surely that would mean that LNN would have no purpose to exist anymore, therefore it MUST be the former (?).
LU
Luke
The thing that's struck me, is that it's all been so quick - a week after the merger. They're not wasting any time! I just hope LNN are allowed to keep running London Tonight/Today how they are. In my opinion, it's the best London News programme.

And will we see a situation where someone like Catherine Jacob will report for LNN?
:-(
A former member
What a shame. I've always loved that backdrop ie. the window.... I guess that will go.

Windows always make excellent backgrounds. No frizzy chromakey edges, it's always "live" outside etc. Watching people presenting bulletins from within enclosed studio spaces just doesn't work for me...

Still, it isn't just LNN leaving the South Bank. I hear they're closing the LWT Bar as well?! That's a real shocker - and the Granada execs who took that decision probably all have mini-fridges in their offices...
WH
Whataday Founding member
If LNN is moving to Grays Inn Road, could this mean that the national weather could be moving to ITN too? If so, it would be good to have the forecaster in the ITV News studio as part of the news programme.

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