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Tag: ITV News

  • Ofcom and ITV

    What will public service broadcasting look like in 2012 – post digital switch-off? Yesterday industry regulator Ofcom announced its review, a consultation which will end in 2009. Today ITV‘s Executive Chairman Michael Grade spelled out the result of his review – free, original entertainment – which will begin as soon as he can get Ofcom‘s…

  • Stockwell 2: Policing public information

    The IPCC‘s Stockwell 2 report is undoubtedly the best account of the management confusion surrounding the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes. Well, it’s the only one. There is a key problem. The central claim in all police communications was that de Menezes was challenged, refused to comply and was then shot. This, Stockwell 2…

  • First rule of terrorism?

    Don’t go on the telly. ITV News reporter Jon Gilbert gives the back story to his interview with FBI informant Mohammed Junaid Babar. In 2001, it ran on my old show – five news (we couldn’t afford capital letters) – and was then picked up by CNN on syndication from ITN. That’s when someone from…

  • The declining price of broadcast news…

    ITV has just spun out a new deal with its news supplier, ITN. In case you don’t understand the oddness of British TV news – ITV doesn’t have its own news division, it contracts the news out – and has done for fifty years – to a company it 40% owns. According to the headline…