UTV is owned by GMG

From what I remember you were. You returned sometime last year and posted pointlessly in nearly every thread.

hmph! I think you'll find that banned members normally stay banned. I'm telling the truth, and if you search the memberlist, you'll find SpiringUnhacked just no longer exists. Now can we get back on topic please?

Well that would be because we have had several forum crashes. That aside you have signed up again and could easily be using a different computer/isp.

No, I don't want to get rid of you, I merely wish you to bring your excessive posting habits to an end, and not feel obliged to post in every thread (37 today for example). Don't you have any self-control? Whenever you've been on, you leave the forum's thread list littered with "Digifiend, posted at 14:32. Next one down, "Digifiend, posted at 14:34", and again "Digifiend, posted at 14:37" and so on and so on...... don't think we don't notice!!

I agree with Mich that a lot of your posts could be avoided by you using the Internet and its' many search engines to ANSWER YOUR OWN QUESTIONS FOR YOURSELF. I cannot believe that even you are incapable of using a little Internet initiative to do that. There are plenty of websites that'll tell you for example, where each regional broadcasting base is. Your local ones are listed in the flipping Phone Book under BBC if you'd take five minutes out of 'manic posting mode' to go see!!

Why are you so intensely obsessed with posting so much? Is it ego, an obsession with high post counts, boredom, no motivation to get off your backside and do something else, what? And don't call me Hudson girl, I think that you'll find Hudson's girl is Nicola Shaw now and good luck to the pair of them.

Remember, less is more!!

Loving your work Katherine, my thoughts exactly.

Someone needs to ram it into his head....

Any chance anyone in this thread will mention UTV again? Take your petty rows somewhere else. Thanks.

Shouldn't think so for a moment, Marksi, not now the thread's been contaminated by Mr Spiring!

Marksi's made a fair point - carry on, people!!

Trouble is, Katherine, it was one of those "odd" threads in the first place, seeing as UTV ISN'T owned by either Granada or The Guardian.

It sort-of died at birth, so now seems to be being used for other things.

Anyway, having managed to mention UTV, best I retire gracefully before I do anything else right!

Hmm. I have to agree it went off topic pretty sharpish! Oh well. What I posted this for was to point out that somebody at Granada needs to proof read things before they get published - "since when were they owned by GMG?" was a rhetorical question, the answer of course being never . You don't expect someone not to know what they own!

Marksi:
"Why would the name "ITV1 Ulster" possibly alienate the nationalist community?

Ulster is, after all, one of the four provinces of Ireland, and is the area (mostly) covered by Ulster Television's franchise. Really don't see the problem there."

From a Nationalist perspective (not strictly my opinion though), the word "Ulster" refers to the province of Ulster, consisting of nine counties; Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, (London)Derry and Tyrone, the six counties that make up Northern Ireland; plus Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan. Since the Home Rule era, the word "Ulster" has also come to mean the six counties of Ireland that remain under British rule, and was adopted by various organisations, most of whom run by or catering for the dominant Protestant/Loyalist community (cf. Royal Ulster Constabulary, the Ulster Unionist Party in recent years)

Nationalists perceived that the use of the word "Ulster", in terms of "Ulster Television", misapproriated the definition of "Ulster" - the broadcasting area of UTV's licence is the six counties, rather than the whole province of Ulster. In the Nationalist press and in Nationalist political circles, the channel was always called "UTV".

Then came the 1990s, the retirement of Brum Henderson as the Managing Director of Ulster Television, and came a realisation that the channel was received in the Republic of Ireland. The new management, led by John B. McGuckian and Desmond Smyth, realised that there was a lucrative market in selling advertising for the millions of UTV viewers in the Republic, but by calling themselves "Ulster Television", the station would be viewed as biased towards the Protestant/Loyalist audience in Northern Ireland.

Hence it was renamed to UTV; while everybody knew what the "U" in UTV stood for, the name sounded more appealing and less exclusionist, and it worked - more interest in advertising from the Republic of Ireland.

And it's no coincide that in the current period where the Unionist majority has diminished and the presence of Nationalists in positions of authority has exponentially grown, companies are dropping or setting aside business names that mention "Ulster" - the RUC has turned into the PSNI, and Ulsterbus has been sidelined in favour of Translink.

Ironically, I believe that Ulster Television's name was chosen as it was the name deemed least likely to cause offence to the Northern Irish viewing audience!