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A former member
As in the other thread, News at ten had been under threat for 6 years before it got the chop:
I Asked back last year about plans to get rid of ITN News at ten: http://www.tvforum.co.uk/thenewsroom/date-1993-itn-news-seven-itv-32233/ and some details appear but a book has not told the full truth. Someone wrote:
That Book for unknown reasons has completely and utter whitewash the truth and trying to bad mouth Carlton as an escape goat. plans were afoot in 1992 to get the ball rolling and it was nearly achieved in 1993.
From January 1992:
I Asked back last year about plans to get rid of ITN News at ten: http://www.tvforum.co.uk/thenewsroom/date-1993-itn-news-seven-itv-32233/ and some details appear but a book has not told the full truth. Someone wrote:
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And Finally' book about ITN published in 2005, I don't recall reading anything about a 7pm bulletin, but it was as early as about 1994 that Carlton got the ball rolling for the axe of News At Ten, as they believed that in the long term ITV would be better off for having the 10-11pm slot free for new programmes and getting 'a younger audience' obviously this never happened and the NaT was probably the worst commercial mistake ITV made in recent years.
That Book for unknown reasons has completely and utter whitewash the truth and trying to bad mouth Carlton as an escape goat. plans were afoot in 1992 to get the ball rolling and it was nearly achieved in 1993.
From January 1992:
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