ITV launches international pay platform

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After reading this decided to buy one of the boxed sets of Out of Town for a family Christmas present, superb series.
 
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Yes, saw that one, I got the 10 DVD set, that's a little too expensive at the moment.
 
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The brightest thing about Southern was their logo . . .

I like to think Out of Town referred to Portsmouth. :-rofl2

I wonder what was in his pipe?


Fred Dinenage is still going, presenting the news with Sangeeta, they make an odd couple.

Amusingly ITV has been forced to bring back many of the regional news programmes. Border is back to covering the Borders and Cumbria after a bizarre few years when half the programme covered Tyne Tees region where it isn't even transmitted! Cretins! Meridian Thames Valley news has also been brought back which makes a lot of sense as about four million people live there in one of the most economically important areas of the country.

I doubt we will see any return to proper regional programmes unless they are forced to make them. The golden days are long gone.
 
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Steve Steve said:
Your missing out on ....Fred Dinenage on itv meridian...you know the one from the " how" programe with Jack Hargreaves ..(I think thats his name ).? ....that's worth a repeat on itv2 .. ?
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Lest one forget.
 
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Ah..yes ...the wonderful Benny Hill and his Angels....nice one..!....brill..!...this is turning out to be a big trip down memory lane!......Any fans of Magpie or Tiswas on here..??
 
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Too old for Magpie, although I do admit to watching Tiswas as an adult on the odd occasion, with the lovely Sally James. :)

 
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rolfw said:
Too old for Magpie,
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You're of a similar age to me and I used to watch it. Wonder why the difference?

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...although I do admit to watching Tiswas as an adult on the odd occasion, with the lovely Sally James.
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Now here's a funny thing. All my mates watched it but I didn't for some reason. However I did watch the shortlived late-night spinoff OTT.
 
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+1 for OTT.
 
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I was watching Bullseye on Challenge last night, the proper old ones, they had the old Central logo on the first one and the 2nd was was ATV, both of which Jim mentioned what ITV region the contestants came from, you certainly don't get that these days, mostly cos a lot of the regions are amalgamated with others, or have gone bust...

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Just a shame ITV screwed up and lost them all to $ky & freemantle media, they might have actually kept their viewers.... :-lol
 
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Remind me again what happened the last time ITV was in control of a pay platform ?
 
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Remind me again what happened the last time ITV was in control of a pay platform ?
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$ky alledgedly secretly hacked it and publshed the keys on't t'internet and people stopped paying for the sports packages they offered and heavily invested in... :)

Shame really, OnDigital was a good service, but I suppose without it, Freeview wouldn't have come into existence... :)
 
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hexah said:
Amusingly ITV has been forced to bring back many of the regional news programmes. Border is back to covering the Borders and Cumbria after a bizarre few years when half the programme covered Tyne Tees region where it isn't even transmitted! Cretins! Meridian Thames Valley news has also been brought back which makes a lot of sense as about four million people live there in one of the most economically important areas of the country.
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A 5 minutes opt out at the end of Toon Tees does not provide a news service for what is geographically a huge area, although we dont have many people living oop ere! (The biggest town in the Borders has a population of less than 20k!)

I havent seen any details of where the new service is coming from. I expect it Leeds or Newcastle. It certainly isnt Carlisle - the Border studios were knocked down a few years ago :(
 
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