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JO
John
It bought a tear to my eye.
DM
DeMarkay
I will never understand why Carlton and LWT merged.

They were perfect as they were.
:-(
A former member
Because Carlton and Granada mergerd. But the time that happened lwt name was already gone 2 years ealier.
AL
alexhb01


DE
DE88
I will never understand why Carlton and LWT merged.

They were perfect as they were.


Carlton TV and LWT didn't merge - their respective owners did.

And although the Carlton and LWT brands were replaced with a single "ITV1 London" brand in October '02, the two companies and their respective owners technically remained separate until February '04.

Unless I'm mistaken, of course. Wink
WH
what
What's a credenza?
MU
Multi
what posted:
What's a credenza?


Just had to google that myself. We have several of them in our lounge and upstairs. Never heard a sideboard called a credenza before!
IT
itsrobert Founding member
what posted:
What's a credenza?

Basically a kind of sideboard cupboard.
LO
lobster
I will never understand why Carlton and LWT merged.


there is no business case for keeping them separate though... 14 companies all playing out the same content for most of the day, with only minor off-peak differences, all paying their own associated overheads for doing so - makes much more sense to combine resources and these kind of functions centrally - also the marketing costs of maintaining all those different brands which represent ultimately the same thing would be incredibly expensive, and pointless.

the idea that each company would represent and have local content from the region it served is not a bad idea, but we're a small island, and even during the late 1980s and into the 1990s, the number of programmes which actually fitted that remit were few and far between.
:-(
A former member
What's a credenza?

The simpsons was so much better back in the day!
KE
kernow
Because Carlton and Granada mergerd. But the time that happened lwt name was already gone 2 years ealier.


Until the merger, after it became known as ITV1 London, the LWT brand continued to exist on endboards and the weather.
MA
Markymark
what posted:
What's a credenza?


http://lmgtfy.com/?q=What%27s+a+credenza

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