1991 ITV franchise auction | ITN coverage | 16 October 1991
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- ITN coverage of the ITV franchise auction, Wednesday 16th October 1991.
For research towards a college project I recorded TV news coverage of the 'Channel 3' auction results, and the controversy.
I edited down the bulletins from VHS to VHS, using a manual 'play and record' method. The editing results vary! Over thirty years later I found that tape. I had no idea I'd kept it.
00:00 Intro
00:30 ITN morning summary
02:59 News at 1230
23:47 ITN 540 News
32:27 News at Ten
45:11 END
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00:00 Intro
00:30 ITN morning summary
02:59 News at 1230
23:47 ITN 540 News
32:27 News at Ten
45:11 END
When TV-am knew they had lost their franchise they set into motion "Plan B" - a plan which was made in case they did lose. From February 1st 1992 until December 31st 1992, TV-am news department was closed down, staff sacked, and the news provision contracted out to Sky News for £500,000. They axed all new home produced programming, scaled back kids shows, and concentrated everything on to that sofa set with very little outside broadcasts. They managed to provide a half decent election coverage in 1992, but most of that was provided by Sky News to TV-am. As one media critic said "Whereas the other three franchises who lost chose to go off air gracefully in their last year on air, TV-am chose to rot away on air on our screens, not hiding the cutbacks and rotting away like a mouldy apple left in a kids lunchbox"
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This is where the rot set in at ITV.
ITV losing Thames would be like PBS losing WGBH. They both produce atleast a third of their respective network programming.
1:51 "Both the viewer and the advertiser should continue to get the quality they want". The second Thames was shunted off air, ITV went down the crapper and fast.
Licence to broadcast for the next 20 years - what a joke of a statement by the then ITC considering 2 in particular were in time years later allowed to take over the rest and in turn destroy the whole regional basis of ITV's entire model. And as for "largest supplier" of Thames - largest supplier and what did they do they flipping didn't give it to them and Carlton instead. Sad day all round!
It was then indeed and very much so too as we found out later on really too-alas of course?!
TVS wasn’t doing as well as most people thought at that particular time,and this included many in the British media. TVS brought the American television company MTM Enterprises in the late 1988. However it was thought that TVS had over paid for MTM, and then the American television syndication market collapsed soon after, which hurt TVS even more. Then the itc thought that TVS’s bid as too high. Don’t forget that the winning bid not only had to pay their bid every year but had to also pay a share of ad revenue to the treasury every year which would of eaten up a very large share of the revenue that TVS would be making. This is on top of the regular taxes that a company has to pay every year. For example Central had bid bid just £2,000 a year, but it would of had to of paid about 11% of its ad revenue to the treasury. All of what happened to TVS would of made it unlikely that TVS was going to even survive for ten years. We don’t know the actual reasons why TVS’s bid filed, but if you do your research there are clues to be found as to why they probably lost.
Yes of course I am sure you are so right there then too as well!
Although of course it was really a deep shame that they had lost along with the other ones then so too?!
We all know why Thames lost? The Iron B1tch!
Carlton Television and Quality? That word doesn't spring to mind when I think of that franchise! 🤮🤬
To see Nigel Walmsley sitting there on the day they won the franchise with the Carlton pack of lies of all the new programmes that were coming and on their first year report, highly criticised by the ITC. And then after sitting there about Thames output, ITV took most of it.
Thank you for all of this of course, which is most interesting so too. The way that the then ITC awarded the ITV contracts to the companies involved at the time of course. The ITC had only replaced the former IBA at the start of 1991 anyway. That too was a result of the 1990 Broadcasting Act so too. But the way of course that they awarded the new companies to replace the old ones was controversial for sure then. If only they had known then that really it would turn out to be a disaster as such in so many ways. Carlton was no match really for Thames somehow. Likewise Meridian for TVS; Westcountry for TSW; and of course GMTV for TV-am then. This was presented of course by then ITN/ITV newsreader John Suchet, who is the brother of actor David Suchet, who is best known for his role in ITV's Poirot series, as well as Blott On The Landscape, a series that had been on BBC2 before it.
Well done-10 out of 10 so too!
And thank you too there for the highlighted comment of course so too.
Charlton was not all that. The only good programme they put on was about Hollywood.
You are of course so right there too I am sure?! @@garyhunt8067
@@garyhunt8067 Bobby Charlton? Charlton Athletic? Charlton Heston?
The 1990 BBA is what *really* did proper regional ITV in. Nothing *independent* about ITV if other regional companies takes over others (e.g. Carlton taking over Central, Granada taking over Yorkshire etc). They should have just *completely* removed the "ITV" name/brand when Carlton and Granada merged in 2003.
All this because one old woman seemed to believe we didn't live in a democracy where unbiased journalism in a documentary was permitted!
I think the commentators who predicted that programme quality would be sustained in the new ITV system ended up with egg on their faces.
Carlton was probably the most disappointing new franchise holder. Meridian lacked the energy and ambition of its predecessor. Westcountry delivered a low budget, amateurish local service.
There was a lot of hot air spoken at the time. I don’t think they really believed it was the best way to find a franchise winner.
@@vhs_videohomesystem Yes, I think Harry Turner of TSW summed up the madness of the blind auction system very neatly. The franchises went to the highest bidders who passed the so-called quality threshold, unless they bid too high!
The newcomers had no previous experience In public service broadcasting to draw upon. So by choosing Carlton, for example, the ITC was acting in blind faith.
Yes I am sure you are so right there then too.@@georgeholland2934
Indeed TVS had more ambition really than Southern before them and Meridian later on as an ITV company then I guess so too?
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Yeah my tidying is a bit like that too.
What happened to yorkshire tv other competitor white rose television and can you show me a logo of it please???
18:58 Yes, John where Thames looked like a premier channel, Carlton will be the Trailer park trash!
26:47 Shocker. They didn't.
Central Yorkshire television Granada stv LWT been saved
They were indeed then too of course at the time?
@@brucedanton3669I'm glad my region Granada stayed
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2:34 "...and Disney."
*womp womp* Game over.