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ITV Night Time Franchise In the 1980s

What happened to it?

Yes, I'm sure there was only one set of ads went out on Four. I'm now questioning my memory as to whether there were three monitors showing the clean feed and one showing the output, or the other...

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By Neil Jones

29 replies

3,216 views

SC 1 Sep - 6 SepSi-Co

1996 Manchester Olympic Games Bid - IBC in Granada?

There was another instance where the communications link from Kyalami to TVC was incorrectly set up, leading to the signal travelling from South Africa to the UK, back again through Murray's earphones,...

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By elmarko

39 replies

4,677 views

XI 3 Sep - 13 SepXilla

Good Morning Britain

September 2016 onwards

Utterly horrendous

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By HarryB

657 replies

68k views

NT 5 Sep - 20 Mar 2017NewbieTvFan

The One Show

Crick's world has sorta fallen in today, buses and the parking thereof. His big scoop has come to zilch.

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By RDJ

57 replies

5,005 views

DV 5 Sep - 10 May 2017DVB Cornwall

Crimewatch

2016 New Look

Apologies! Feel free to merge.

By Maaixuew

2 replies

461 views

MA 5 SepMaaixuew

ITV Takeover?

Who would try?

Not just abroad, it's portfolio of productions in this country is hardly full of low quality programming. Unless a new buyer is just in it to asset strip the company then they'll likely continue...

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By Ne1L C

26 replies

2,626 views

IS 6 Sep - 10 SepInspector Sands

F1 ownership sold to Liberty Media

Split from The Sport Thread

The other way to look at it of course is, the chairman of the company that is acquiring Formula One Management is also the chairman of the parent company of Sky's biggest competitor.

By tightrope78

8 replies

634 views

RD 6 Sep - 11 Seprdd

Do the proms ever finish on time?

I think both LNOTP and TOTP are BBC Music productions.

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By Revitt

16 replies

1,277 views

NG 10 Sep - 11 Sepnoggin

VICELAND

Launching September 19 on SKY Channel 153 and Now TV.

To be fair, if you've watched VICE documentaries online. Then it suits the branding well, stripped back and straight to the point.

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By A former member

31 replies

6,081 views

DB 12 Sep - 4 Octdbl

BBC loses Great British Bake Off

UPDATE: Mel and Sue quit as hosts

If true, that's a very good appointment in my opinion.

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By VMPhil

307 replies

21k views

DE 12 Sep - 15 Feb 2017deejay

BREAKING NEWS: Rona Fairhead to stand down as BBC chair

May clearly " cleaning shop" with anything to do with that man

By Maaixuew

1 reply

391 views

:-( 13 SepA former member

The Nightly Show

8 weeks trail with ITV temporarily moving the NAT

I do find myself watching old clips of Tom Snyder on YouTube late at night on occasion as that definitely has the feel i'm talking about. In his Tomorrow Show years, he to me was the perfect post...

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By A former member

1,023 replies

54k views

MS 14 Sep - 26 Aug 2017Mr-Stabby

Diminishing BBC

Licence fees

EastEnders in recent months have cut back on location scenes, they didn't show a court scene, nor a funeral in recent weeks and are heavily reliant on filming at Elstree. They've also losing around...

By Mike.Anderton

11 replies

989 views

LL 14 Sep - 15 SepLondon Lite

New X-Factor & Got Talent deal signed

Split from ITV Programming Thread

Dermot: "we're going to spin the x factor ; we find out next weeks theme" Simon on xtra factor: "as the show was going on tonight I'm thinking about the songs" I think it's safe to say the jukebox...

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By PFML84

33 replies

2,399 views

KN 16 Sep - 10 Octknack

Grand Tour

Available 18th November on Amazon Prime

I think it's inevitable that they will have distribution agreements for countries without Amazon Video, indeed here is a tweet and reply about such situation. I've seen similar for Canada...

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By deejay

15 replies

1,740 views

KN 16 Sep - 1 Octknack

Davis Cup

GB v Argentina

GB face Canada away for the first round of Davis Cup 2017 in February, it's likely to be in Vancouver as that's where they play most of their ties and has the smallest time difference to Melbourne...

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By dvboy

12 replies

1,096 views

DV 16 Sep - 22 Sepdvboy

Christmas on TV

In September!

True Christmas has extended its reach to local TV areas on Freeview, filling the fourth stream on the local mux.

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By steddenm

12 replies

2,156 views

RE 17 Sep - 4 OctRex

Channel 4 retains Paralympic Rights to 2020

Deal includes 2017 IPC PA Championships, Winter 2018 and Summer 2020

Deal done it would seem, final negotiations concluded.

By DVB Cornwall

9 replies

1,151 views

DV 21 Sep - 3 OctDVB Cornwall

Coast

Cheap TV to play against bakeoff.

By DVB Cornwall

1 reply

307 views

SA 22 SepSA100

"BBC World" Ident

That's the one!

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By A former member

14 replies

1,955 views

PI 23 Sep - 25 Seppicard