The estimated savings from the combination of Carlton and Granada's broadcasting businesses are around £50m a year...
One of the first things to go? Well according to a report on the Media Guardian website, Merdian's Maidstone studios are on the way out. It's Newbury studio closed last year, with it's output moved to Southampton instead.
And if you can combine three regional news programmes on one site for Meridian, well why not go one step further? How long before the entire regional news output comes from one place? Now on ITV1 Tyne Tees, Mike Neville, sat in a shed in Birmingham...
