The Problem with ITV - Episode 296
How important to ITV is Channel 3?
Catalogue of Woe
BBC catalogue off the air
Future-proofing the BBC
TV must change with the times
Blair's Broadcasting Legacy
Looking back on the outgoing PM’s impact
Still a place for quality TV
ITV1’s decline and the future of TV as we know it.
On Message
Politics, elections and the media
Safe in their hands
Who will keep the BBC running?
Whither ITV?
Andrew Bowden sees a post-analogue future
Public private partnership
What is a ‘public service broadcaster’?
Pay Per View
The loss of a public funded BBC would be a tragedy, says Kif Bowden-Smith
Into the firing line
Broadcasters are under the closest scrutiny they have been under in years
Say hello, wave goodbye
James Barrington is shocked at the end of LWT
Catch the penny
But Ian Beaumont thinks the broadcasters are missing the pound
Giving up television
Russ J Graham doesn’t watch here anymore
Undoing the inevitable
Carl Ellis wants to unpick the Carlton-Granada tie-up
Love/hate five
David Hastings isn’t sure about Channel Five
A merger too far
One ITV multiplies the business risks, says Ian Beaumont
Five wins
Andrew Bowden on the resurgent Channel Five
24 hours too many
Ian Beaumont says 24 hour television is a waste of time
Blank cheque
Malcolm Smith on different ways to police the licence fee
Know future
Stephen Hopkins on the mess ITV has made for itself
Major Merger
James Barrington rues a single English ITV
Monkey business
David Hastings writes on the depressing future for ITV1
Roswell mystery
Carl Ellis on the use and abuse of imported programmes
Government by spin
Kirk Northrop reports on Michael Brunson’s views of spin
All together now
It’s time for radical change at ITV, says Andrew Bowden
Service Stations
Ian Beaumont asks is public service exists in commercial TV
USP
Dafydd Hancock knows what ITV1 is missing
Murdoch to the rescue
Murdoch is better than Granada, argues Dafydd Hancock
Unto the wasteland
ITV1 is safe, bland, boring and dull says Anthony Heathfield
Qualitycide
Arthur Dungate has given up watching television
With a whimper
Ian Beaumont watches ITV slide out of the running
Words and Pictures
Russ J Graham looks under ‘C’ and finds a rude word
The end of RTÉ
Richard Logue charts a death by a thousand cuts
Manifest commitments
Repeal the Broadcasting Act 1990, says Anthony Heathfield
