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Clive Jones
Michael Grade has saved his first salary with the departure of Clive Jones. Not one to mince words, in closing the ITV News Channel Jones famously told newsroom staffers that it was “a bleeding sore”. Jones was one of the last of the regional news barons who rose through ITV‘s ranks without stopping at ITN.…
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Murder
ITV News bested the BBC tonight. Crime is their thing and they set about it with grim determination. Yes, the word grim … you will have heard it repeated a few times this evening. ITN are there when the bodies are found, they have the Paula Clennell interview. On the scene Mark Austin holds things…
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Grade news at 10.30pm
Melvyn Bragg rather outshone and outluvvied ITV News business editor Mark Eddo at 10.30pm. Eddo didn’t mention the line from Grade about looking at the news: I think news is very very important for a big network. And it is very interesting that in the competitive situation in America, although they’ve cut back the investment…
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Grade to ITV
Jeff Randall seems to have had the scoop on Michael Grade‘s move to ITV. Grade probably only had it in him to go on making worthy speeches for so long! ITV News at 10.30pm is left to go with “reports that…” in the headlines and poor old Harry Smith doing a studio spot. Sir Peter…