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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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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.
7:00 - Can we take a moment to appreciate how brilliantly informed and fluid this exchange between Witchell and Higham is?
Back then Higham looked as if he was still wet behind the ears but he was a year or two shy from his forties.
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.
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.
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.
TVS and TSW shouldn't have lost imo either
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.
How Carlton won on a QUALITY threshold was beyond me!!
@@Sheffield_Steve Maybe their Inspector Morse productions satisfied the stupid ITC into thinking Carlton knew what quality was?
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.
Carlton even ruined identities of Central, HTV & Westcountry
Did you also think the loss of TV-AM, TVS and TSW were negative?
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.
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.
World In Action too. It seemed that North West Television would have been very Liverpool biased.
Business Breakfast gave good coverage.
You mean BBC Breakfast News? Business Breakfast only aired from 6.30-6.55am in 1991.
John King ... yes indeed!
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.
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.
@@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.
The bidding process was ruddy barmy
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.
This was the death of itv
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.
10:57 - Another upside-down UTV logo.
How do you work that out? Looks the same to me. Sorry for my clueless knowledge.
Also the BBC couldn’t be arsed finding Channel Television’s logo.
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