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<title>David Hastings commented on &quot;Obligatory showing of teeth&quot;</title>
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<updated>2012-01-26T15:28:06Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[David Hastings said: Latest conspiracy theory doing the rounds is that BBC local radio cutbacks were deliberately put forward as a &quot;sacrificial lamb&quot;, knowing full well that they would be highly vocal public protests as a consequence and that the cutbacks would inevitably be reduced on appeal. This smokescreen enabled much more significant savings (daytime BBC2 repeats, BBC3 &amp; BBC4 budgets slashed, etc.) to be quietly rubberstamped by the Trust with minimal fuss and negligible public debate - a win there for Thompson.

I can (sort of) believe this theory to an extent, although I still think that the BBC has perhaps overestimated public feelings towards, say, BBC2 daytime repeats (fewer people might care about this sort of thing than the BBC likes to think), and that the BBC still underestimates the full potential of local radio, judging from the fact that certain BBC local radio stations have clearly been left to rot over many years.]]>
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<title>Reginald Murgatroyd commented on &quot;Obligatory showing of teeth&quot;</title>
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<updated>2012-01-25T17:23:51Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[Reginald Murgatroyd said: If you want to make large savings, then you do not make cuts on services which have the smalles budget ie local radio and regional TV.

If the BBC was serious about saving money then it would start with a knife to senior management and the wasteful and expensive non-PSB programming on BBC-1 whose budget is bloated with incestuous deals with private production companies.]]>
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<name>Reginald Murgatroyd</name>
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<title>Reginald Murgatroyd commented on &quot;Sorry Hazel, but what did you expect?&quot;</title>
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<updated>2012-01-25T17:18:53Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[Reginald Murgatroyd said: Glenn Aylett makes a most insightful point.

The New Labour administration, was elected with the support of Granada Television under Gerald Robinson, who even hosted the Labour Party Political Broadcst, and was also no doubt instrumental in getting Tory Bliar exposure on the Diz O&apos;Connor Show.

&quot;It was Gerry wot won it for Tony.&quot;

As part of the payback, which included a knighthood for Robinson, the man who proclaimed that greed gets things done, and because of the failure of the Granalton On Digital vehicle, it was the New Labour Administration who relaxed the few ITC regulations for program content and presentation, and then passed the Communications Act 2003 with the toothless light touch regulator OfCom allowing Granda to take over Carlton and the subsequent wholesale destruction of the remaining regional TV production centres.

At the same time Tessa Jowell was active proclaiming the lie that &quot;regional televsion was safe&quot; under the Communications Act, all the time knowing that its destruction had been well planned in advance.

Hazel Blear&apos;s comments are therefore no more than hypocritical sanctimonious utterances of a political nature to keep up the pretence that she is concerned about the jobs and economy of her constituents even though she was an active and willing part of an administration which allowed Granada to destroy its Manchester operations and move staff wholesale to the South Bank and never once raised any objections.]]>
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<name>Reginald Murgatroyd</name>
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<title>Glenn Aylett commented on &quot;Sorry Hazel, but what did you expect?&quot;</title>
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<updated>2012-01-22T15:46:41Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[Glenn Aylett said: Maybe Hazel would have been better employed trying to stop the destruction of that other Manchester broadcaster, Granada, over the years. This one time BBC of the North with a reputation for quality programming is no little more than Coronation St and that high quality debating show Jeremy Kyle. How Sidney Bernstein must be turning in his grave.]]>
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<name>Glenn Aylett</name>
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<title>Steven Oliver commented on &quot;TV&apos;s most boring ident?&quot;</title>
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<updated>2012-01-06T23:59:01Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[Steven Oliver said: Border&apos;s ident as used from 1961 to the early seventies, and the colour &quot;Border Television&quot; static ident used from then until 1989, must surely have to be up there with the most boring logos.  To be fair, at the time, the station had other things on its mind - namely the unions who managed to put Border off-air for several weeks in late-1978, for ten weeks in 1979, and for several weeks (again) in late-1982.  It took a change of management after the 1982 strike to bring the unions to heel and prove that there was more to Border than Mr &amp; Mrs.

Ironically the animated Border ident used between 1995 and 1999 was up there with the best, and put the likes of Carlton&apos;s and Meridian&apos;s efforts to shame.]]>
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<title>Nigel commented on &quot;Necrolog 2011&quot;</title>
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<updated>2011-12-31T19:48:52Z</updated>
<published>2011-12-31T19:48:52Z</published>
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<![CDATA[<a title="http://www.thejudge.me.uk" href="http://cms.transdiffusion.org/tbs/cms/mt-comments.cgi?__mode=red;id=6213">Nigel</a> said: Robert Robinson (August). Come on guys, you published my obit of him! (Tee hee!).]]>
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<name>Nigel</name>
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<title>Russ J Graham commented on &quot;Michael Apted and his Granada &quot;Seven Up&quot; programme returns to ITV1&quot;</title>
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<updated>2011-11-22T15:58:46Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[<a title="http://www.transdiffusion.org" href="http://cms.transdiffusion.org/tbs/cms/mt-comments.cgi?__mode=red;id=5815">Russ J Graham</a> said: In an interview on ComingSoon.net dated December 2010, Apted said &quot;Yeah, I&apos;m gonna shoot it about, at the moment it&apos;s September of next year, and I&apos;ve got broadcast dates already, for God&apos;s sake - the 13th, 14th and 15th of May 2012. So I&apos;ve got a job there, so yes, I am thinking about it.&quot;]]>
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<title>Ronnie MB commented on &quot;Michael Apted and his Granada &quot;Seven Up&quot; programme returns to ITV1&quot;</title>
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<updated>2011-11-21T22:43:09Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[Ronnie MB said: It would be about time for 56 Up if there is going to be one.

Does anyone know if there is?]]>
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<title>Louis Harding commented on &quot;Redefining Auntie&quot;</title>
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<updated>2011-10-27T16:07:44Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[Louis Harding said: the name of the report &quot;Delivering Quality First&quot; is the typical Ministry of Truth (of 1984 fame) style dishonesty that people have come to expect from the BBC and government officials.

The report is not about how to deliver quality first but how to make all the cuts made necessary as a result of 1) Jowell and Bliar reducing the income of the BBC as punishment for the Gilligan affair and 2) Cameron increasing the burden by adding External Services and S4C funding from the licence fee.

And people still mistakenly cling to the belief that the licence fee is such a wonderful idea because it makes the BBC independent of the government ...]]>
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<title>Ronnie MB commented on &quot;Reshuffling the news&quot;</title>
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<updated>2011-10-12T22:13:16Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[Ronnie MB said: Didn&apos;t the BBC try that once?  What was it called?  Oh, yes! Sixty Minutes!  Wonder what ever happened to it???  (Apologies for heavy handed sarcasm!)]]>
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<title>Joseph Gallant commented on &quot;Reshuffling the news&quot;</title>
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<updated>2011-10-07T18:22:02Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[Joseph Gallant said: Some years ago, NBC looked into the idea of &quot;blending&quot; their affiliates&apos; local early-evening news with the network&apos;s nightly newscast into a single one-hour programme.

Under this plan, &quot;Nightly News&quot; would have been split into two or three portions, and run as segments within an hour-long early-evening local news bulletin.

NBC abandoned this idea because they discovered there was no way such a format could really work.  ]]>
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<title>john hamilton commented on &quot;You can&apos;t beat a good daily start-up&quot;</title>
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<updated>2011-10-04T21:20:42Z</updated>
<published>2011-10-04T21:20:42Z</published>
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<![CDATA[john hamilton said: Don&apos;t they look smart?]]>
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<title>Alan Keeling commented on &quot;TV&apos;s most boring ident?&quot;</title>
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<updated>2011-09-20T19:01:31Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[Alan Keeling said: I find todays TV idents even more boring, &amp; you cannot get more boring than that.]]>
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<title>Alan Keeling commented on &quot;You can&apos;t beat a good daily start-up&quot;</title>
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<updated>2011-09-20T18:58:23Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[Alan Keeling said: Ah,just like the good old days of ITA in the 50s &amp; 60s.]]>
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<title>Arthur Murgatroyd commented on &quot;Reshuffling the news&quot;</title>
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<updated>2011-09-15T11:05:45Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[Arthur Murgatroyd said: It is all just a ploy to put into place the means of seamlessly at some later date of eliminating regional news entirely.

ITV plc want to be a purely national commercial tv network with no regional requirements.

Consider also that HD only is the long term future and that there are only 6 ITV HD regions (same as ITV-1+1) but only (as far as I am aware) 3 ITV regional services broadcast on these -- Granada, London, and Meridian.]]>
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<title>Tanya Jones commented on &quot;You can&apos;t beat a good daily start-up&quot;</title>
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<updated>2011-09-09T13:10:21Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[<a title="http://www.gypsycreams.org" href="http://cms.transdiffusion.org/tbs/cms/mt-comments.cgi?__mode=red;id=5186">Tanya Jones</a> said: Perhaps the only benefit to a Communist totalitarian dictatorship is the ability to pull off lovely syncopated marching displays.]]>
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<title>Vashti commented on &quot;You can&apos;t beat a good daily start-up&quot;</title>
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<updated>2011-09-09T11:40:36Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[Vashti said: Even Kim Jong Il looks unimpressed.]]>
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<title>Chad H commented on &quot;TV&apos;s most boring ident?&quot;</title>
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<updated>2011-09-07T01:26:07Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[Chad H said: I have an Australian nomination.

Bit of background, in the eastern part of Australia prior to the 90&apos;s, in rural areas you had one commercial TV station locally scheduled, , and one state station (the ABC) on a national schedule; in major areas (like Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne) you had 3 commercial stations, and the state national broadcaster (so the rural commecial stations usually picked the best programs from all 3).  Then the government decided to win some rural votes by extending broacast license rules such that each license area could now broadcast into 2 neighbouring areas (and in return, their incumbents would get access to that region), with each of those 3 stations basically becoming a straight relay for the major cities 3 stations, this was called &quot;Aggregation&quot;.

In Central and South Eastern Australia, &quot;Southern Cross&quot; found itself allied with the 10 network.
Prior to Aggregation it was using this ident:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9M4TTPwfkc
At the time of aggregation, Channel 10 was using the following Ident:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkOHSk7QBWI&amp;feature=BFa&amp;list=PL2F9E8A9F86FCCFE3&amp;lf=results_main
But somehow Southern Cross (now &quot;SCN&quot; ended up with this boring effort:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bao38Fo1Rdg]]>
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<title>Arthur Murgatroyd commented on &quot;TV&apos;s most boring ident?&quot;</title>
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<updated>2011-08-28T18:36:52Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[Arthur Murgatroyd said: Surely the most boring on screen ident of all the ITV companies of all time must be that of Granada Television which replaced the &quot;From the North&quot; arrow following the 1968/69 franchise reorganisation and before the logo which was devised for the children&apos;s TV show (because the real one was not a logo at all) was adopted.

It merely consisted of the word Granada between two horizontal bands.

Post 1981, the award for most boring ITV company on screen ident is a contest between Border TV and Granada TV.

As far as I am aware, Granada TV was the last ITV company to add a fanfare and animation to its on screen identification, unless Border TV was even later.]]>
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<title>Russ J Graham commented on &quot;Heat of the moment&quot;</title>
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<updated>2011-08-12T09:41:47Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[<a title="http://thisisrjg.posterous.com" href="http://cms.transdiffusion.org/tbs/cms/mt-comments.cgi?__mode=red;id=4843">Russ J Graham</a> said: I hardly think a single mention of BSkyB when talking about how to watch a channel that is available on that platform counts as &quot;promotion&quot; of BSkyB.]]>
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