RI
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?
Makes perfect sense to me, ITV take note.
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?
Makes perfect sense to me, ITV take note.
JT
Think they deal with it well in YTV land.
They tend to say This is ITV News, You're watching Calendar
or Welcome to ITV News, This is Calendar
They tend to say This is ITV News, You're watching Calendar
or Welcome to ITV News, This is Calendar
KE
Technically, it's still Channel Television Limited, although it's often referred to as ITV Channel Television.
Gotta agree there. At least that's a geographical description. Referring to Channel TV makes no sense at all, it's ITV Channel now, isn't it?
Technically, it's still Channel Television Limited, although it's often referred to as ITV Channel Television.
LL
Technically, it's still Channel Television Limited, although it's often referred to as ITV Channel Television.
ITV Channel Television was used even when owned by the Yattendon Investment Trust in recent years leading up the the sale to ITV. It made sense when they took ITV network continuity.
London Lite
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Gotta agree there. At least that's a geographical description. Referring to Channel TV makes no sense at all, it's ITV Channel now, isn't it?
Technically, it's still Channel Television Limited, although it's often referred to as ITV Channel Television.
ITV Channel Television was used even when owned by the Yattendon Investment Trust in recent years leading up the the sale to ITV. It made sense when they took ITV network continuity.
WP
Technically, it's still Channel Television Limited, although it's often referred to as ITV Channel Television.
The company name is irrelevant to the discussion. Technically Meridian was "Meridian Broadcasting Ltd", but they never referred to themselves on air as that.
Gotta agree there. At least that's a geographical description. Referring to Channel TV makes no sense at all, it's ITV Channel now, isn't it?
Technically, it's still Channel Television Limited, although it's often referred to as ITV Channel Television.
The company name is irrelevant to the discussion. Technically Meridian was "Meridian Broadcasting Ltd", but they never referred to themselves on air as that.
MK
Just to double check, this happened the same time the regional continuity in England went (27th October 2002) right? How did it work before then? I know they had a dirty Meridian feed so will have done their own junctions but were most of these pre-recorded or done live? What about network promotions? Meridian liked sticking their logos on these in the early days, which must have sucked for Channel. Also, being so small, could Channel typically fill an ad break or would they show some of Meridians? If so, did they just crash into them or was there some sort of 'presfax' or talkback type of arrangement with Southamption?
Sorry for all the questions but there's little Channel continuity online from this era or much written about it of any detail.
It made sense when they took ITV network continuity.
Just to double check, this happened the same time the regional continuity in England went (27th October 2002) right? How did it work before then? I know they had a dirty Meridian feed so will have done their own junctions but were most of these pre-recorded or done live? What about network promotions? Meridian liked sticking their logos on these in the early days, which must have sucked for Channel. Also, being so small, could Channel typically fill an ad break or would they show some of Meridians? If so, did they just crash into them or was there some sort of 'presfax' or talkback type of arrangement with Southamption?
Sorry for all the questions but there's little Channel continuity online from this era or much written about it of any detail.
NW
Didn't Channel by 2002 start getting it's Meridian feed from DSAT?
It's always been a little oddity of a station, I remember visiting Jersey in the 1990s and having a play about with ITV Teletext there and found that CTV's Text service was on P200, leaving Teletext Holidays without a home, yet they also had Meridian Text on P600.
I guess Oscars axing has been a matter of when than if, certainly more so since the ITV takeover. Having it before kids programmes worked, but considering CITV hasn't been on ITV outside of breakfast hours for a couple of years now, I guess it just felt a bit out of place within the schedule.
What time is it on today? I might manual tune CTV into my Freesat.
It's always been a little oddity of a station, I remember visiting Jersey in the 1990s and having a play about with ITV Teletext there and found that CTV's Text service was on P200, leaving Teletext Holidays without a home, yet they also had Meridian Text on P600.
I guess Oscars axing has been a matter of when than if, certainly more so since the ITV takeover. Having it before kids programmes worked, but considering CITV hasn't been on ITV outside of breakfast hours for a couple of years now, I guess it just felt a bit out of place within the schedule.
What time is it on today? I might manual tune CTV into my Freesat.