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ITV News Channel to close??
gwiddecombe
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Source: http://media.guardian.co.uk
TV News Channel staff's worst fears about their future appeared to have been realised yesterday after a secret document outlining a contingency plan for the "imminent closure" of the service was left on a printer.
TV News Channel staff's worst fears about their future appeared to have been realised yesterday after a secret document outlining a contingency plan for the "imminent closure" of the service was left on a printer.
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Oh dear shouldnt leave things lying around
Could be a hoax.
Could this be anything to do with ITV tactics. After all they said a long time ago that if they were not allowed to own ITV outright they would pull out completely. This could be a tactic in speeding this up. Letting ITN's other shareholders know they mean business. ITV are ITN's biggest customer for news, without them it is questionable how long ITN would survive.
If ITV News is not available on DTT, I can't see if surviving on the other digital platforms.
But Channel 4 might want the new slot on Mux C for More 4 +1 (as E4 +1 is already on Mux C).
Five looks most likely to get the new slot on Mux D.
While I don't wish any harm on the staff involved, this is hardly a surprise, the ITN new channel is "the duffer" out of the news channels available, in particular it has treated freeviewers shabbily (erratic broadcast slots, removed during mux engineering, having time stolen for setanta/itv4)
It seems you'll have to buy a local rag if you want to get feel good stories about firemen rescuing moggies in Lower Hepthwaite :-)
Not exactly accurate reporting, but it shows that hardly anyone knows ITV4 exists. It's not being cross-promoted anything like as much as ITV2 and ITV3 and several newspapers have not yet acknowledged it even exists in their listings wheras they have included ITV3 and More4 from their inception.
One of the problems of the Network Printer... Choose the wrong one and you don't have a clue where in the office (or company building) the damned thing has gone.
Fact mirroring fiction, a similar tactic was used in an episode of Drop the Dead Donkey, where a memo on a photocopier was found threatening job losses
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/17/jammed_printer/
Isnt ITN news` and Euro News the same company, If so no mention of that folding. Just sounds like a managment ploy to get just one News channel and cut costs on all platforms not just DTT
there are no connections with UK broadcasters...but I could be wrong...I can't find any mention of ITN in my short search
Look at page 3 of that PDF, ITV is a share holder. from memory an artical about 12months back stated that ITN news was part and parcel of the Euronews, but cannot locate the artical at present will post link when I find it.
Edit: Although I have found this to support your comment Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/648324.stm
I had to read that twice... There's an ITV4? I clearly haven't been reading DS enough as I missed that one.