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Oscar Puffin/Puffin's Pla(i)ce to be made Online Only (September 2013)

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MS
Mr-Stabby
Surprised this hasn't happened sooner to be honest considering Channel TV was purchased quite a while back now. Also since CITV disappeared from the afternoon schedule, there was really no place for old Oscar anymore:

http://www.channelonline.tv/channelonline_jerseynews/displayarticle.asp?id=507196

Frankly i'm surprised they're even bothering to make it online. I suppose since the studio is there they might as well do it, but how long until they decide the money is better spent elsewhere?

If there was any future for Oscar, it could be the CITV Channel, as a filler between shows at its most popular times.
MK
Mr Kite
Doubt he'd ever get on CITV. Pretty much nobody outside the Channel Islands has heard of him. Like you say, it was always on the menu as soon as ITVplc bought Channel. I don't think it's the last remnant of the regional system though. You still have Channel Report or whatever butchered name it's been given these days. Once that goes (which it eventually will), I think you can say the last remnants have gone.
GM
Gary McEwan
Doubt he'd ever get on CITV. Pretty much nobody outside the Channel Islands has heard of him. Like you say, it was always on the menu as soon as ITVplc bought Channel. I don't think it's the last remnant of the regional system though. You still have Channel Report or whatever butchered name it's been given these days. Once that goes (which it eventually will), I think you can say the last remnants have gone.


Yeah the butchered name is ITV News - Channel Report, bet yet they are the only ones to offer a 30 day catchup on its full weekday bulletins...
TC
TonyCurrie
Sad to lose Oscar - I still tune in to him from time to time just o make sure the world hasn't ended! (I was once a guest operator of Oscar Grosnez Corbière Claud Puffin - awkward bit of wood that he is!). ITV 1 have no connection to their viewers any more.
:-(
A former member
Sad to lose Oscar - I still tune in to him from time to time just o make sure the world hasn't ended! (I was once a guest operator of Oscar Grosnez Corbière Claud Puffin - awkward bit of wood that he is!). ITV 1 have no connection to their viewers any more.


At least STV tries, with its local news etc I just wish there would have something like " Scottish Action" or the Art Sutter show back on,
SP
Steve in Pudsey
Surely Julian Simmons is the *last* remnant of old ITV?
LL
London Lite Founding member
Doubt he'd ever get on CITV. Pretty much nobody outside the Channel Islands has heard of him. Like you say, it was always on the menu as soon as ITVplc bought Channel. I don't think it's the last remnant of the regional system though. You still have Channel Report or whatever butchered name it's been given these days. Once that goes (which it eventually will), I think you can say the last remnants have gone.


Yeah the butchered name is ITV News - Channel Report, bet yet they are the only ones to offer a 30 day catchup on its full weekday bulletins...


It's called ITV News Channel TV. The oddest brand name of the rebranded news regions.
KE
kernow
Surprised this hasn't happened sooner to be honest considering Channel TV was purchased quite a while back now.

I think the 50th anniversary earlier this year would have been a factor in deciding to keep it on TV until now, although since the purchase of Channel TV by ITV, I had always thought that the show's days were numbered.
LL
London Lite Founding member
The current presenter Jenny Mullin is moving to Guernsey radio station Island FM full time, which may be connected with ITV's decision.
JT
jolly turnip
The current presenter Jenny Mullin is moving to Guernsey radio station Island FM full time, which may be connected with ITV's decision.


Or more likely the other way around
AN
Andrew Founding member
Sad news, remember the days when it used to have a cult following here, due to the geeky tv and presentation talk that presenter Kevin Pamplin used to manage to get into many editions of the show.
NG
noggin Founding member
Doubt he'd ever get on CITV. Pretty much nobody outside the Channel Islands has heard of him. Like you say, it was always on the menu as soon as ITVplc bought Channel. I don't think it's the last remnant of the regional system though. You still have Channel Report or whatever butchered name it's been given these days. Once that goes (which it eventually will), I think you can say the last remnants have gone.


Yeah the butchered name is ITV News - Channel Report, bet yet they are the only ones to offer a 30 day catchup on its full weekday bulletins...


It's called ITV News Channel TV. The oddest brand name of the rebranded news regions.


I guess ITV News Channel would be confusing... ITV News Channel Islands would make sense?

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