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Premium rate phone-in saga: ITV Play Channel Axed

ITV & Five suspend all premium rate competitions (March 2007)

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JB
JasonB
jrothwell97 posted:
If it does go, that would make airspace for something useful - like another news channel


ITV News channel? Wink
JO
Johnny83
nok32uk posted:
Greg Scott argues his case on Quizmania, why he thinks it finished and the Call TV row

http://www.gregscott.tv/id35.html

Worth a read. Hopefully he can back this up for us.

Now, I wouldn't say people were thick and stupid, it is freedom for choice and all that. People obviously need to know how the game is operating (as ironically mentioned in a previous post) but I've noticed on many occasions the 'presenters' deliberately target the drunk and vulnerable. i.e words like "Now you've probably just been down the pub and are a little tipsy after a night out... give us a call? What have you got to lose?" Lets just say it could be considered people are in a "thick state" at that time. Confused


Have to say, after reading that, that although he may be a bit biased I would say that he was one of the people that WASN'T aware of what was going on & I would possibly say that Quizmania wa sone of the few that wasn't seeing as they gave clues to some of the answers from time to time.

However a few that I have seen definately were fixed, for legal reasons I won't say what

But to brand them all the same is a case of people jumping on the bandwagon, TV would be a better place without them but again it is a case of people blaming others for their errors, in some cases
SE
Square Eyes Founding member
JasonB posted:
jrothwell97 posted:
If it does go, that would make airspace for something useful - like another news channel


ITV News channel? Wink

Doubt you'd ever see that again.

ITV Play = revenue generating (although remains to be seen how much after this whole debacle)

ITV News = loss making
JR
jrothwell97
JasonB posted:
jrothwell97 posted:
If it does go, that would make airspace for something useful - like another news channel


ITV News channel? Wink


Something that isn't run by ITV.
LS
LaSeandre
i think itv are right to suspend their premium-rate services.

anything that gets itv play off-air isgood enough for me.
SP
Spencer
ITV Play Cleared: MediaGuardian

Interestingly, this only refers to ITV Play programming on ITV1, and makes no reference to the channel itself returning.
JO
Jonny
So is it only ITV Play on ITV1 which has been cleared or have both ITV Play on ITV1 and the ITV Play channel been cleared?
JO
Johnny83
I hope Cash Call (or whatever it's called) doesn't make a reappearance on The Hits, I've enjoyed having music back on at night again rather than some t*at constantly repeating "You could win ten-thousand-poundssssss"
ST
Stuart
I think the return of ITV Play, whether to ITV1/2 during the night or as a seperate channel will depend on viewing figures now.

I believe the "bubble has burst" on public trust in these scams and there is little mileage left in them commercially (I hope)

Perhaps it's time to consider using the DTT bandwidth more effectively from now on. Confused
JO
Johnny83
StuartPlymouth posted:
I think the return of ITV Play, whether to ITV1/2 during the night or as a seperate channel will depend on viewing figures now.

I believe the "bubble has burst" on public trust in these scams and there is little mileage left in them commercially (I hope)

Perhaps it's time to consider using the DTT bandwidth more effectively from now on. Confused


Yes, for either another film channel, decent music channel, sports channel, classics channel, but no more radio stations there's far too many seeing as most are on DAB
JB
JasonB
Apparently Pop The Q was taken off air after an hour last night. They said they were having technical difficulties so TMF went back to showing music videos. I wont be suprised if they dont come on air tonight.
SP
Spencer
StuartPlymouth posted:
Perhaps it's time to consider using the DTT bandwidth more effectively from now on. Confused


I think Michael Grade may be about to do this considering this quote from last week on the subject of ITV Play...

Quote:
"I don't believe it's damaging to the brand, I really don't. What interests me is allocation of resources. One of our resources is spectrum and access to spectrum.

"What interests me is whether we are getting full value and a proper return from that spectrum we occupy. ITV Play is part of that review. But I don't have any problem with it in principle, no."
Link

I may be completely barking up the wrong tree here, but taking into account the following...

* The 'we hope to be back soon' being swiftly removed from the ITV Play off-air slide.
* Grade's statement above.
* ITV Play on ITV1 programming being the real money-spinner, not ITV Play's channel exclusive programming.
* ITV Play on ITV1 being given the green light only so far.
* Quiz channels inevitably taking a dip in popularity following the last two weeks' controversy.

... I do wonder if ITV Play may be reduced eventually to late night ITV1 only, with the channel's bandwidth being used for something else.

Just speculation, obviously.

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