Tyne Tees Television didn't start broadcasting until 1959, therefore viewers in the North East never had an ITV station whilst other regions in the country did, so regardless on how old ITV is, Tyne Tees will be 50 years old in 2009. And also to contradict what you're saying, how come Tyne Tees celebrated it's 40th in 1999, according to your way of thinking Tyne Tees would've celebrated it's 40th in 1995 when ITV turned 40.
Tyne Tees Television didn't start broadcasting until 1959, therefore viewers in the North East never had an ITV station whilst other regions in the country did, so regardless on how old ITV is, Tyne Tees will be 50 years old in 2009. And also to contradict what you're saying, how come Tyne Tees celebrated it's 40th in 1999, according to your way of thinking Tyne Tees would've celebrated it's 40th in 1995 when ITV turned 40.
Sarcasm is clearly lost on you sir.
Well if that's your idea of sarcasm (personally I'd call it trolling) then you're best left ignored like the lowest form of wit you were attempting.
Tyne Tees Television didn't start broadcasting until 1959, therefore viewers in the North East never had an ITV station whilst other regions in the country did, so regardless on how old ITV is, Tyne Tees will be 50 years old in 2009. And also to contradict what you're saying, how come Tyne Tees celebrated it's 40th in 1999, according to your way of thinking Tyne Tees would've celebrated it's 40th in 1995 when ITV turned 40.
Sarcasm is clearly lost on you sir.
Well if that's your idea of sarcasm (personally I'd call it trolling) then you're best left ignored like the lowest form of wit you were attempting.
I'm not generally in to the Digitalspy way of carrying out arguments directly in threads, but in this case I'll make an exception.
For all your haughtiness at my 'attempt' at the 'lowest form of wit', you clearly failed to notice that
in the very same paragraph
of the posting on which you comment, I said:
me posted:
There was never a time when some parts of the country had ITV and some didn't.
I notice from your registration that you've been around a while. For all my faults, do you really think my knowledge is that faulty?
Furthermore, my next statement was:
me posted:
And down in the south west, Westcountry absolutely did not make a programme called 40 years of ITV in 2001, 4 years before looking back at 50 years of ITV within the regional news.
Which surely confirms to you that I was joking.
And in case there was any doubt in your mind as to what I thought, I confirmed (in what I hope you feel was a less pond life like way) my understandingo of the actual situation a few posts later with:
me posted:
My issue is that just because London had ITV from 1955, 2005 became the 'official' national 50th birthday of ITV. There's certainly nothing wrong with acknowledging it nationally, but IMO it was a bit much when regional news programmes started 'taking a look back over the past 50 years' when ITV hadn't been available in the given region for 50 years; the overtones of the entire ITV50 promotion were to try and forget the past and pretend that ITV had existing as a single integrated entity nationally since 1955
You must read
exceptionally
selectively to not understand what I meant.
