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bluecortina
[quote="Richard" pid="941096"][quote="bluecortina" pid="941095"]
Whataday posted:
bluecortina posted:
So, that how the name TLS came about, it wasn't LWTP marketing the studios under a different name. LWT broadcasting was formed to hold the broadcasting licence, and was the applicant company. I think it still exists and most likely still holds the actual licence to broadcast.



I thought that that pretty much all of ITV plc's predecessor companies were 'dormant companies' with Anglia Television, renamed as ITV Broadcasting, now holding the regional licences for all ITV plc regions. Or something like that.


I think you're most likely very right that 'broadcasting ltd' companies were formed out of all the original licence holders and that ITV plc owns all those companies and it is them that hold all the current licences - and not ITV plc directly itself.
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Andrew Founding member
Just catching up watching the overnight bits from this, just at 6am now, I bet people here loved the behind the scenes of GMB bits, showing them rehearsing the start
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stevek2
ITV catch up missed bits out, the weather and his appearance on Jonathan Ross
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Whataday Founding member
The company "LWT Broadcasting Ltd" had a weird existence.

It started as the curiously named "Speed 2523 Ltd" before becoming "LWT Broadcasting Ltd" and then around the turn of the millennium it became Granada Media Products Ltd (used for any Granada Media licensing/merchandising rights), and eventually became Kent House (Media Products) Ltd before eventually being dissolved, possibly around the time ITV Plc was formed.
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elmarko
Why Speed 2523?
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rdd Founding member
Probably just one of a series of shelf companies registered by whatever accountants acted for LWT originally.
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stevek2
Why did he do the weather from the GMB studio rather than the ITV weather studio
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Steve in Pudsey
The ITV weather studio is at Millbank, the GMB studio is in the same building. Also I imagine using the plasma style screen was easier than a CSO as he could see the maps etc
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stevek2
Thanks for that, easier to be under one roof.

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