ITV Nightly News Posted Mon Jul 31 17:03:48 BST 2000 by Richard

Sorry if this is being discussed elsewhere on this forum but - When should the ITV Nightly News be shown? Should News at Ten be revived? Certainly the majority of people who took part in the survey on the UTV website thought so.

11.4 %
9:00pm

2.9 %
9:30pm

66.9 %
10:00pm

7.4 %
10:30pm

8.0 %
11:00pm

3.4 %
11:30pm

The total number of voters was not given, but it is likely to be very small.

Subject: Re: ITV Nightly News [ Previous Message ]
Posted By Damian on Mon Jul 31 21:02:24 BST 2000:

Personally I don't care when the Nightly News is shown, but I think it would be a good move for the BBC to move the News at Nine forward an hour.

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Posted By Simon Harries on Mon Jul 31 21:39:54 BST 2000:

>Personally I don't care when the Nightly News is shown, but I think it would be a good move for the BBC to move the News at Nine forward an hour.

A bit like that 60's networked music show from Granada, Chelsea at Nine, which according to Jeremy Isaacs on "Grandadaland" (1992) supposedly went out at 8pm just to be quirky.. So sorry, parenthetic digression ends.

Subject: Re: ITV Nightly News [ Previous Message ]
Posted By Richard on Tue Aug 1 09:15:26 BST 2000:

>Personally I don't care when the Nightly News is shown, but I think it would be a good move for the BBC to move the News at Nine forward an hour.

Really? Wouldn't Eight O'Clock be a bit early for the evening News? Personally I think Nine is fine as Ten would be too late.

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Posted By Bods on Tue Aug 1 10:15:44 BST 2000:


>Really? Wouldn't Eight O'Clock be a bit early for the evening News? Personally I think Nine is fine as Ten would be too late.
>

Ten would clash with John Peel :)

However during Euro 2000, having the news on at 10 a few times, I did like the slot. Apparantly, the BBC is 'considering' it. Who knows what will happen. Trouble is, would they have a problem calling it 'the News at 10' like Sky News did?

Subject: Re: ITV Nightly News [ Previous Message ]
Posted By Richard on Tue Aug 1 10:36:04 BST 2000:

> Apparantly, the BBC is 'considering' it. Who knows what will happen. Trouble is, would they have a problem calling it 'the News at 10' like Sky News did?

I presume they'd just call it the BBC NEWS or the BBC NEWS at 10 O'clock (like they did on News 24 when they introduced the special 10 O'Clock prog (when News at Ten on ITV ended) with different titles.

They'd either replace the 9 with a 10 in the titles, just use the generic titles, or do some new ones.

I don't think they'd have a flythough over night-time London or anything!

Subject: Re: ITV Nightly News [ Previous Message ]
Posted By RapH on Tue Aug 1 21:27:35 BST 2000:

Wouldn't it now be easier for the BBC to move their news to 10pm than it would for ITV? They don't seem to have that same desire for the clear run from 9-11 so that they can show uninterrupted films or Maisie Raine two-hour specials.

As most weekday evening BBC1 programming is traditionally 30-50 mins long and the only films that we tend to see during that same time-window are American space-fillers, surely it would have less impact on their schedule and possibly even provide a link into a 'more in-depth look at the news' on Newsnight on BBC2 immediately afterwards.

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Posted By Jase on Tue Aug 1 23:58:59 BST 2000:

ITV don't want to have the 9-11 slot cleared for drama and films. In fact I can't remember the last time ITV actually showed a film at 9 o'clock on a weekday -- I think putting them on was a ploy to get viewers on their side (certainly I looked at an old paper from 1989 and they weren't being shown like that then either). No, they'd far rather show "World's craziest home video catastrophes in which we get to leave the swear words in" and other such delights. Damn you Carlton!

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