Will ITV go Bust?

[pboi]

Yes. Then they will consolidate with another channel ( 5 ) and get a share of the licence fee. Or Virgin/Somebody like that will buy a stake. Shit channel, nothing on it worth watching

as for iplayer abroad, im sure torrents cover most things

 

[mhwfc]

ITV are still more than capable of making decent programmes, The Street and The Royle Family are made by Granada. Presumably they were rejected by the ITV network centre though, too adventurous for their liking.

It's been all downhill for ITV since Thatcher got rid of Thames and replaced it with Carlton IMO, a slow downward trajectory though still with some real quality coming out of Granada like Cracker and Prime Suspect through the 90s, then this decade almost unadulterated shite, though this year ITV have still had some good stuff, like the Stockwell reconstruction and Whitechapel, and it's not exactly an achievement but their news once you get past their laughably sensationalist style often contains more journalism and less PR puff than BBC1's efforts.

I'd be surprised if ITV went bust, though I wouldn't be surprised if a foreign broadcaster like RTL or more disturbingly Murdoch bought it. Branson I reckon's a possibility, imagine the publicity if Virgin saved Corrie for the nation It'd also be seriously powerful leverage for Virgin Media in their contractual disputes with Sky.

 

[PacificOcean]

ITV are still more than capable of making decent programmes, The Street and The Royle Family are made by Granada. Presumably they were rejected by the ITV network centre though, too adventurous for their liking.

It's been all downhill for ITV since Thatcher got rid of Thames and replaced it with Carlton IMO, a slow downward trajectory though still with some real quality coming out of Granada like Cracker and Prime Suspect through the 90s, then this decade almost unadulterated shite, though this year ITV have still had some good stuff, like the Stockwell reconstruction and Whitechapel, and it's not exactly an achievement but their news once you get past their laughably sensationalist style often contains more journalism and less PR puff than BBC1's efforts.

I'd be surprised if ITV went bust, though I wouldn't be surprised if a foreign broadcaster like RTL or more disturbingly Murdoch bought it. Branson I reckon's a possibility, imagine the publicity if Virgin saved Corrie for the nation It'd also be seriously powerful leverage for Virgin Media in their contractual disputes with Sky.

RTL already own FIVE, so I am not sure they would be allowed to take on ITV as well.

Sky are having to sell their share in ITV, though they have gone to the appeal court, but even so, I can't see Sky being allowed to buy the whole of ITV if the Government is getting sniffy about a 17% stake.

Virgin Media is £11 billion in debt and has a credit rating of zero and has already filied for Chapter 11 before (it's listed in America for some reason). In today's climate I couldn't see how they would raise the capital to buy ITV.

And as for anyone else buying it, who want's to take on a sinking ship and a £500m pension decift?

Either ITV will go to the wall (Would that be a first I wonder? Have any other countries main broadcasters folded?)

Or the Government will step in like the banks for the sake of "The National Interest".

 

[simpson_eh]

Adding another ITV is shit post and apart from some champions league football i haven't had a reason to watch it the last 4 years except maybe some films at xmas -and that was only because i was living in a homeless hostel without internet.
Now i have a home and the internet back the tv doesn't go on at all except as a kind of backlight if there's people round to save me changing whats player on the pc all the time.