Question in recent weeks stv has developed the practice of opting straight to nightscreen when itv goes to TELESHOPPING and then coming out for the signed programme before going back to nightscreen as per itv.previous the signed programme would play first and then nightscreen long play would start often for around 4 hours before judge finder at 505. What do we think the thinking here is behind the change, is it Coronavirus related or something else. P.s I know that nightscreen due to the different musics used counts as regional programming which for stv should make a different as completely separate from itv and the constraints that, that incurs, being an affiliate more freedom.Also why not do stv nightscreen instead of itv nightscreen if your not a itv plc service. Your thoughts please on both questions which currently fascinate me - thanks!
I'm more surprised in terms of Nightscreen STV could get away with that? Surely in those spots it should be used for catching up on either missed shows (even the ones they didn't complete few years ago too)?
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I’m sorry I if this Is a stupid question I don’t really know much about the world of tv but is it likely that itv would ever takeover stv. Wouldn’t it make sense since nearly all shows with a presenter call it itv and shows like itv racing is full of itv branding and the big one obviously itv news also in the mornings for good morning Britain we have itv branding with the itv idents and everything I’ve also noticed a few time’s if the stv continuity announcement finished before the itv one it sometimes cuts to it and you hear the tail end of it.
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This has been spoken about before, and whilst a major shareholder in STV said it was "inevitable" ITV PLC would buy STV, that was a couple of years ago, and it hasn't happened yet. It's worth also mentioning, a takeover of STV by ITV PLC would also lead to more questions being asked. The future of the Border Scotland area, would it be absorbed into the central Scotland region, or would the southern part of STV be split east and west, and each part taking up part of the border area?
You also have to ask, if ITV would then consider moving production of some stuff up to Glasgow? Would STV still be called STV, as per UTV in Northern Ireland, or be rebranded ITV Scotland, as what happened to HTV Wales, which became ITV Cymru Wales?
This has been spoken about before, and whilst a major shareholder in STV said it was "inevitable" ITV PLC would buy STV, that was a couple of years ago, and it hasn't happened yet. It's worth also mentioning, a takeover of STV by ITV PLC would also lead to more questions being asked. The future of the Border Scotland area, would it be absorbed into the central Scotland region, or would the southern part of STV be split east and west, and each part taking up part of the border area?
You also have to ask, if ITV would then consider moving production of some stuff up to Glasgow? Would STV still be called STV, as per UTV in Northern Ireland, or be rebranded ITV Scotland, as what happened to HTV Wales, which became ITV Cymru Wales?
Do you think they would keep the two stv regions even though it doesn’t really make a difference right now or would they have a whole itv Scotland news show.
I thought they had got rid of utv or is that just temporary
This has been spoken about before, and whilst a major shareholder in STV said it was "inevitable" ITV PLC would buy STV, that was a couple of years ago, and it hasn't happened yet. It's worth also mentioning, a takeover of STV by ITV PLC would also lead to more questions being asked. The future of the Border Scotland area, would it be absorbed into the central Scotland region, or would the southern part of STV be split east and west, and each part taking up part of the border area?
You also have to ask, if ITV would then consider moving production of some stuff up to Glasgow? Would STV still be called STV, as per UTV in Northern Ireland, or be rebranded ITV Scotland, as what happened to HTV Wales, which became ITV Cymru Wales?
Do you think they would keep the two stv regions even though it doesn’t really make a difference right now or would they have a whole itv Scotland news show.
I thought they had got rid of utv or is that just temporary
Whats the point in keeping STV North running? Its only used for news most of its output (Ok is London by the feed) but it comes from Glasgow but it seems that during the Coronavirus it seems they can run the bulletin on a shared basis, or just put the nail in the coffin for STV North as in general it serves no purpose other than news (which can be done from Glasgow). I think what they have done highlights that this is possible and likely to happen in a year or so (rather be proved wrong but since Corona it seems I am not far off)
The answer is the licence granted by Ofcom. Putting aside local advertising it brings in, the regional licences stipulate 4½ hours of news and 1 hour of other first run local programming a week. Central Scotland and North of Scotland are separate licences.
Temporarily merging them is presumably permitted under the force majeure clause of the licence - I'm assuming they're still including reports from both regions.
The answer is the licence granted by Ofcom. Putting aside local advertising it brings in, the regional licences stipulate 4½ hours of news and 1 hour of other first run local programming a week. Central Scotland and North of Scotland are separate licences.
Temporarily merging them is presumably permitted under the force majeure clause of the licence - I'm assuming they're still including reports from both regions.
I believe from what I had seen onscreen the bulletin at 6 came from both regions (which has never happened before), ie say monday/tuesday Glasgow wed-fri Aberdeen (or they are just using the same studio in either region and playing to the viewer they are "live" from a city).
Whats the 1 hour of "local" programming? I could understand if I was under the old fashioned name of Grampian and getting a special programme as such but even at that the opt out is coming from Glasgow? (I would change the 1 hour "local" and change it to "regional" as STV isn't local in general)
Sometimes the STV News at 6 (if you watch both or flick between them for Aberdeen/Glasgow) its basically simulcasting one another until the "break" ie Aberdeen gets the split for 5 min Dundee bulletin (Aberdeen runs as it in that time), just to add I still don't get why have this split and just run it from Aberdeen as a 30 min bulletin it once was..