ITV News - Regions Changes

A story from ITV News explaining the changes to the ITV1 Regions following Ofcom's PSB Review.

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[radiodarkhorse]

Get rid of OFCOM and bring back the IBA!

[racrmimbpsvc]

Instead of cutting back on regional programming, why can't they cut back on those shitty reality shows that suck ass??? Like I'm a celebrity and The X Factor. Because of these crap shows, we have even lost regional programmes. I know that Central has and I will be making a complaint.

[MissDillyWilly]

I honestly cannot see X Factor, IACGMOH lasting another 10 years. Reality TV will eventually die one day.

I know it probably won't happen but they really need to bring back regional television again, it will create 100s if not 1000s of jobs in each area and another chance to launch the decent programming that was scrapped 12 years ago.

[d222173d]

Its sad but that's progress soon will be a northern news and south with London being the only true region. Its like going back to when ITV first began

[TumbleTower]

@radiodarkhorse Well said, maybe they'll insist on ITV1 West from Bristol and ITV1 South West from Plymouth. Also maybe they'll insist on more relays getting full Freeview, e.g. Poole, Weymouth, Bath which I read somewhere a few years ago would get all 6 MUXs but ended up getting just 3.

[TumbleTower]

@Glenn1967ful When I was a kid I remember ITV had factual programmes including Weekend World, World In Action, TV Eye. Also Sunday lunchtime they had regional farming programmes. HTV and TSW had regional farming programmes made in the region. What happened to all these said programmes?

[seemyseems]

@pokemonrocksfm A very mature answer.

[pokemonrocksfm]

@seemyseems becuse us in london are MORE impornt then ANY outher news

[CHANNELMICHAEL]

Just listen to her biased wording "Has to DEDICATE AIRTIME" (as if it's vital)

"It is an EXPENSIVE COMMITMENT"

[joe45BP]

Ofcom and ITV just can't get rid of some regions tv centers for no reason! It isn't right! There must be some other way instead of closing down like that! It's a pain in a butt seeing some region tv centers have to closedown like this. At least some programmes like Emmerdale was save just like Coronation Street when Granada TV was saved in the early 1990s.

[seemyseems]

Why did they keep ITV London?

[pistak09]

Any celebrity based crap should be cut from ITV and not the regional news. Now ITV has even decided that Westcountry, Tyne Tees, Central and Anglia names are pointless as their TV guide new has Westcountry as the South West, Tyne Tees as the North East, Central is now West / East Midlands and Anglia is now East Anglia. So deregionalisation of ITV has now moved a bit further to its death.