BBC News 24 report on ITV Digital collapse

News report from BBC News 24 on the collapse of ITV Digital. This clip is from 15:00 on 27th March 2002, at the moment representatives went to the High Court to formally place the business in administration.

To learn more about ONdigital and ITV Digital go to www.onhistory.co.uk

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• digital
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• dtt
• freeview
• high
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• bbc
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• carlton
• granada
• administration

[1331adm]

Once upon a time there was a big thing called ON Digital,one day it changed it's name to ITV Digital, then it was put into administration because it could no longer afford to meet it's payments to the football league for rights to show matches,not long after that BBC and Crown Castle (now Arqiva) officially took over the digital terrestrial television (DTT) licences to broadcast on the three multiplexes from the defunct ITV Digital, The End

[dtvfan15]

Going into administration is the same as bankruptcy but you have pay all debts off

[DoubleMiz]

This is interesting stuff, I live in the US and I'm wondering, is going into 'administration' similar to what we call 'bankruptcy'?

[dontheedthecallup]

I ended up buying this crap and to think they wanted to compete with sky! Whenever you wanted to watch a match you couldn't get a signal and a red dot just appeared. CRAP

[aceamen]

OMG its BBCi. LOL!

[crypticlocker]

It's quite funny that ITV digital had offices in Marco Polo House which originally belonged to failed (but loved) broadcaster, BSB.

[scottvideos100]

I had ondigital and then itv digital way back in 2000 and i was disappointed when the company went into administration, how stupid of them to put money into football screening right when they couldnt afford it, why didnt wait for a few years until they had enough money. You wouldnt go into a shop and buy something that you couldnt afford. lol

[TeamBlackDragons01]

Why didn't they think aboiut what they were getting into.

[somethinsuavetheater]

@madboy1able Yup. It was.

[madboy1able]

is that jurassic park 3 at 2:04