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TV Channel Predictions 2020

(December 2019)

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FO
FanOfTV99
As 2019 is about to go into the land of past years and 2020 is about to rise up and begin.

I think it's time we predict what will happen to some TV Channel's in 2020.

My Prediction.

ITV News will rebrand.
BBC will keep Oneness.
Channel 4 will have some new ident.
SKY will closedown Sky Two.
LL
London Lite Founding member
Comedy Central goes FTA, replacing the 5Spike slot on Freeview.
FOX and Nat Geo Wild leave NOW TV when the Sky/Disney contract ends in March.
Sky Cinema Disney axed in March.
The new Sky/NBC world news channel uses Sky News graphics and replaces Sky News International outside the UK & Ireland.
South Today Oxford becomes the second sub-opt to get a full time 1830 bulletin after Look East West in 2019.
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
TVS Archive paperwork discovered in an unlocked never-seen-before safe buried in a never-seen-before skip in a never-seen-before basement at some ITV studio somewhere. Shipped to Disney who suddenly show interest in the parts of it they haven't wiped yet and Challenge break the sound barrier when they open their wallet to cherry-pick the transmission rights.

(more chance of aliens landing?)
IS
Inspector Sands
Wasn't there a thread like this a year ago? If so maybe it should be dredged up for comparison?
BR
Brekkie
Wasn't there a thread like this a year ago? If so maybe it should be dredged up for comparison?

https://tvforum.uk/tvhome/tv-channel-predictions-2019-44186/
NL
Ne1L C
Piers Morgan to leave GMB

(Just saw a pig fly past the window)
FanOfTV99 and j4ever24 gave kudos
CU
Custard56
- Naga Munchetty to defect to Good Morning Britain and co-present on Thursdays and Fridays. She will be "delighted to be free to express her opinions at long last"

- Matt Baker to join This Morning as a stand-in presenter / roving reporter. Also presents alongside Zoe Ball on Strictly It Takes Two

- Either Craig Revel Horwood and / or Bruno Tonioli decide not to return for Strictly 2020

- Steph McGovern's new show to flop in lunchtime slot. Channel 4 move it around the schedules in a bid to salvage it

- Fiona Bruce leaves BBC News presenting duties to focus on Question Time and Antiques Roadshow

- Emily Maitlis is poached by either itv or Channel 4

- Ore Oduba joins The One Show as new main Monday-Thursday host. Adrian Chiles returns as Friday host

- Either Paul Merton and / or Ian Hislop quit Have I Got News for You

- The Greatest Dancer ends after two series; The Masked Singer crushes it in the ratings and becomes itv's new mega-hit

- Oneness continues as ever
LS
Lou Scannon
South Today Oxford becomes the second sub-opt to get a full time 1830 bulletin after Look East West in 2019.


Not sure whether you're being serious or tongue-in-cheek?

Some years ago there was a full Oxford 1830 edition every Friday, which tended to scrape-the-bottom-of-the-barrel for content so eventually was (sensibly) pared back to just a partial opt like on Mon - Thurs.

Now they very occasionally have the odd full 1830 Oxford edition if there's a sufficiently major story in the Oxon/Bucks/Swindon sub-region.
NL
Ne1L C
Tv ark to launch as a channel😀
BBI45, Brekkie and London Lite gave kudos
CU
Curto21
BBC to move the BBC News at 10 to 11
BA
Ballyboy
Bring back the itv mid morning national and regional news?
KE
kernow
The Box Plus Network channels to rebrand, as "4" branded channels, which there has been a lot of speculation about recently, reported to be planned for around January.

I can also see Trace Latina closing or rebranding.

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