well todays is my last day on here, as im going to my nans tomorrow, she's been ill but its her own fault due to smoking, so happy new year, for when it is lol
*Its presenters and production staff have been dispersed across the industry and beyond... some, no doubt, to better things.
*ITVplc owns a 75% stake in GMTV. Indeed the chances are that before too long the breakfast slot won't be a distinct franchise.
*And as GMTV's output is market-driven, who's to say it isn't what TV-am would have turned into.
There comes a point when wanting a lost station to return becomes meaningless. The world and the broadcasting industry have changed a lot since 1991. A franchise change simply acts as a watershed moment.
Of course, whether a company should have lost its franchise in the first place is another matter entirely. That was one of the big problems with the idea of awarding franchises to the highest bidder. But would TV-am have survived an old-fashioned IBA beauty contest? Remember the trouble TV-am got into with the IBA in the mid eighties over the quality of its news coverage? There was no love lost between the IBA, the rest of ITV and TV-am.
A reasoned response.
Although I would love to see TV-am on screen today, I realise it's not possible. GMTV is here to stay until it's bought out by ITV.
The www.tv-am.org.uk website has loads of great information about TV-am and its history.
Imagine if TV-am was around today, there could be TV-am2 and 3, maybe a news channel, they could have pitched to provide the news to Five. Shame they bid too low in the Thatcher money grabbing auction in the early 90's.
Once GMTV ceases to be a distinct franchise, ITVplc may try to quietly kill off the name. As you may have spotted, they have a bit of a track record of doing that!!!
So GMTV the programme gets a new name... like "Good Morning Britain".
I seem to remember Gyngell's heated talk to the press on the day of the franchise awards that he predicted Sunrise (which later was renamed GMTV to save legal battles from Sky) would go bankrupt within 2 years.
I'm not sure if any of the four franchises that were lost would work today anyway. Thames probably would as it was the main leading channel in the 1980's & early 1990s, when they went ITV was hit big time (especially seeing as Carlton weren't going to produce any programmes orignally) as could TVS (although some of their ideas weren't the best (MTM) so probably wouldn't survived long after 1992 anyway), but not sure about TSW (probably would have just sat there quitely down in the South West)
I don't think TVAM would have been recogniseable at all today seeing as looking back alot of their output was dated.
I think one mistake GMTV & Indeed ITV do is the lack of kids programmes throughout the summer. As shown Richard Bacon & Denise Van Outen did poorly on "This Morning" in the summer & GMTV should have done kids programmes like they used ot when they first came on.
BTW completely off topic I like the fact that Ar.senal in my very out of date signature has suddenly become censored
The bbc isn't origional as breakfast is so dire the only reason i watch it is nat kaplinsiky remember bbc tried to do a this morning program about 8 or9 years back
TV-am's last broadcast was nearly 15 years ago, and yet I think that GM-TV still hasn't surpassed it. Whereas TV-am was warm and relaxed, GM-TV is just tabloid and trashy. So I say Good Morning Britain should be ressurected! Kathryn Holloway would present the first hour, and the rest of the programme would be presented by Mike and Lorraine.
They should also rebuild the pink set, and resurrect the old music and pastel graphics. Further, Sky News would be comissioned to produce the news. This would save money and make it more authentic!
So you expect us to live in the past do you? Sorry, but no. I'm happy with Sky News Sunrise thanks.
