adrian monck

Tag: ITN

  • The return of News At Ten

    The old wisdom would have been that the coming News At Ten battle is between two types of television news. One side, the Beeb, driven by the need to inform. At its best patrician and provocative. At its worst dull. The other side, ITN, driven by the need to tell stories, at its best emotionally…

  • Two views on TV news

    I had a chance to look over the memo from ITN’s Dave Mannion on the return of News At Ten. Without repeating it in full, it offers important insights into the thinking of one of Britain’s best television journalists. We have been given a prime time slot. Our job is not simply to split the…

  • TV news in 2008…

    In 2007, Mark Thompson Peter Horrocks apparently walked into a meeting of top BBC talent and declared – not untruthfully – “There is no market for newsreaders.” Unfortunately “even a dead cat bounces” (as finance types say) and the market promptly leapt back into action and Natasha Kaplinsky and Dermot Murnaghan both left the BBC…

  • News At Ten: four nights only confirmed

    ITV Exec Chairman Michael Grade has confirmed that News At Ten will only run four nights a week. He told the House of Lords Communications Committee, “we are going to go four nights a week at ten o’clock on ITV, we will go head to head with BBC1 and the audience will make their choice.”…