Reports leading up to the ITC's franchise decision on the 16th October 1991. From The Channel 4 Daily, TV-am and BBC Breakfast News.
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@56postoffice3 жыл бұрын
The death of the ITV regional stations was the death knell for ITV. But the real final nail in the coffin is when they got rid of LWT in October 2002.
@jameskvo Жыл бұрын
7:00 - Can we take a moment to appreciate how brilliantly informed and fluid this exchange between Witchell and Higham is?
@nottmjas3 ай бұрын
Back then Higham looked as if he was still wet behind the ears but he was a year or two shy from his forties.
@johnking51746 жыл бұрын
Thames Television should have kept their franchise. Pure disaster for the ITV network losing Thames as London's weekday franchise, and in came Carlton "Television for London" my arse.
@Sheffield_Steve4 жыл бұрын
How Carlton won on a QUALITY threshold was beyond me!!
@johnking51744 жыл бұрын
@@Sheffield_Steve Maybe their Inspector Morse productions satisfied the stupid ITC into thinking Carlton knew what quality was?
@Sheffield_Steve4 жыл бұрын
I think it was still with Central & Zenith Productions until at least 1994. I don't think Soldier Soldier, Capital City or Bushell on the Box were quality programming. 😉 The only decent programme they had was Kavanagh QC.
@rajnirvan33364 жыл бұрын
Carlton even ruined identities of Central, HTV & Westcountry
@pak8606 Жыл бұрын
Did you also think the loss of TV-AM, TVS and TSW were negative?
@johnking51745 жыл бұрын
I love the tiny little bit of gloating from Nicholas Witchell, Laurie Meyer and the BBC Breakfast News team here. The BBC knew they were reasonably secure, and looked on with joy at their commercial rivals turmoil. Remember the 1986 Peacock Committee was to review and overhaul the BBC, but somehow it turned its attention to ITV, it was ITV that got bit in the arse by it, not the BBC.
@MrWEWE53 жыл бұрын
To be honest, I still don't understand why ITV gave out a national license for morning television. If anything, and forgive me for my American POV, I consider these companies as separate TV stations affiliated with the ITV.
@johnking51743 жыл бұрын
ITV was never a codified one network when it started in 1955. The whole idea was there would be individual television companies contracted to be the ITV franchise provider for their area. E.g. Granada Television provided the ITV service to the north west of England. The breakfast television franchise was an obvious process for them, as they did not have a network controlled company, it had to be franchised out. All of this changed in 1993 with the complete restructuring of ITV, thanks to the 1990 Broadcasting Act and the 1991 franchise auction.
@pak86063 жыл бұрын
TVS and TSW shouldn't have lost imo either
@DanBmthUK6 жыл бұрын
Business Breakfast gave good coverage.
@johnking51746 жыл бұрын
You mean BBC Breakfast News? Business Breakfast only aired from 6.30-6.55am in 1991.
@DanBmthUK6 жыл бұрын
John King ... yes indeed!
@anthonyperkins75564 жыл бұрын
The bidding process was ruddy barmy
@ivenskinner69476 жыл бұрын
This was the death of itv
@johnking51746 жыл бұрын
Thames Television should have kept their franchise. Pure disaster for the ITV network losing Thames as London's weekday franchise, and in came Carlton "Television for London" my arse.
@johnking51746 жыл бұрын
From this day seen here 16th October 1991, TV AM who lost their franchise started to rot off screen. Bruce Gyngell their Managing Director took an axe to the budget, and decided to hell with providing a service, lets make as much cash until December 31st 1992, by closing their news service, contracting it out to Sky News for a fraction of costs, and to cut every other aspect of the company, until it ended with two hosts on a sofa talking to celebrities. Pathetic.
@rtc90634 жыл бұрын
To be honest if the IBA had balls they would have stripped them of that franchise right at the start and asked ITN to provide an emergency morning service. Saying that the IBA should have been demanded right from the start that ITN should have provided the news because it was always diabolical on TV-am.
@johnking51744 жыл бұрын
@@rtc9063 ITN wouldn't have provided an emergency service, as they wanted the franchise 100%. They would only have helped, if they got an agreement with the IBA to gain the franchise from TV-am.
@MrThecarebear3 жыл бұрын
Nick Ward was right. Granada was expected to win, largely because of one brand alone- Coronation Street. A programme with popularity so strong, it was literally a licence to print money on it's own, and continues to be so.
@johnking51742 жыл бұрын
You forget they also made hugely success Sherlock Holmes starring Jeremy Brett, which by 1991 was sold to over 50 countries around the world and had a partnership with PBS in America. Along with the likes of Jeeves and Wooster, and archive of Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, made Granada very secure.
@pak8606 Жыл бұрын
World In Action too. It seemed that North West Television would have been very Liverpool biased.
@ColmORourke19816 жыл бұрын
10:57 - Another upside-down UTV logo.
@johnking51746 жыл бұрын
How do you work that out? Looks the same to me. Sorry for my clueless knowledge.
@briansergeant3 жыл бұрын
Also the BBC couldn’t be arsed finding Channel Television’s logo.
@pak8606 Жыл бұрын
Looks back to front
@pak8606 Жыл бұрын
All the talk was of Thames and TV-am losing, some talk of TVS but no talk of TSW apart from Nick Higham saying they were vulnerable. I can't remember the odds on companies winning or losing as I was only 9 but I'd say TVS were probably 3rd favourites to lose behind TV-am and Thames.