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Name: Mike Brewster on Aug 18, 2002State:Country: UKComments: ITV's local announcers are valued. Let's keep them.Flag
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Name: Louise Bowden on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments:Flag
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Name: Aiko Rethon on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: Getting rid of our local announcers would be a sad lossFlag
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Name: Christopher Dzialowski on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments:Flag
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Name: David Clapperton on Aug 24, 2002State:Country:Comments:Flag
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Name: Jamie Thomas on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: I want them saved or I wont watch ITV ever again.Flag
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Name: Duncan McAlister on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: De-regionalising of ITV continuity is a bloody disgrace. ITV was set up to be regional and nationalising (in one sense of the word) it takes away eveything that makes it different. It will now be simply a downmarket BBC 1 with commercials or a downmarket Channel 5. Even BBC are investing more into regional programming, while ITV'sregionality is slipping away. And who says names and branding don't make a difference Companies invest billions into image and the ITV name is tarnished with cheap programming and the ITV Digital fiasco. Nearly everyone I know in my region calls ITV either STV or Channel 3. STV is associated with quality, friendly programming whilst ITV is associated with cheap tack. There are more extreme cases of refusing current brands. In Carlton Westcountry many people report older generations calling their station Westward. In other words they have ignored TSW, Westcountry, Carlton and ITV branding. Channel 3 North East was extremely unpopular in the Tyne Tees region and was scrapped. Continuity is also very important as local IVC announcers are remembered. It gives a station a friendly face and makes it popular. Yoof' programming like T4 is presented in vision. Come on ITV, the market you always try to aim at, and even they like in-vision. You are way off the mark. People want regional names, regional announcers and IVC. Bring back what is best about ITV!Flag
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Name: Steve Genesi on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: ITV have lost the plot gettibg rid of regional continuity and branding . ITV was set up on the basis of providing a quality regional service . ITV should concentrate on their poor programmes and endless repeats of crap such as Tv nightmares 99 and dennis norden laughter file 100 viewers are sick of this crap . Helen Stevens from Leeds should be going not her loyal announcing team and as for Jim Hynter he was a big failure at channel 5 with those poor cheap looking idents get rid of him now and not your local branding or announcers . Come on ITV get your act together .Save your local continuity announcersFlag
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Name: Andrew Simpson on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments:Flag
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Name: David Barton on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments:Flag
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Name: Sean M. Cooke on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: I cannot believe that the heads of ITV presentation are going to be allowed to VANDALISE the network in this way! What in the name of sanity do they think that they are doing This is the very end of ITV as we know it and it merely continues the destruction of the network as led by CARLTON TV and Mrs. Thatcher's meddling a decade ago.Flag
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Name: Tony Llewellyn on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments:Flag
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Name: Nick Smith on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: NO CENTRALISATION!!!Flag
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Name: Darren Hocking on Aug 24, 2002State:Country:Comments:Flag
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Name: Stuart Hargreaves on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: The once great ITV service is already in major decline after a decade of board room take overs, cost cutting excercises and a move towards a national rather than a regional identity. To axe regional continuity announcers and regional station names is an insult to the viewer and will only serve to be a suicide mission for ITV. The way to strengthen ITV is to stengthen regional identity thus setting it apart from so many other channels.Flag
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Name: Darren Stuart on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: Any loss of regional identity is a crime and goes against everything itv is supposed to stand for. Does the words independent television ring a bell, itv stop this now while there is still time, stop this now. Do not insult everything itv is supposed to be, wake up and make the right choice.Flag
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Name: MARTIN HOLLAND on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments:Flag
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Name: Stephen Thwaites on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments:Flag
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Name: Jeremy Larner on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: Save Local Announcers from the axe!Flag
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Name: Simon Luxton on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: A very sad day for ITV1. Regionality is the essence of ITV1 and to change a system which has worked so well for 40 years is madness. Many local announcers will be made redundant and, considering many have given years of service, this is the ultimate smack in the face. I believe a second ITV strike is the only way to stand up to Carlton and Granada.Flag
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Name: Steve James on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments:Flag
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Name: John Faulkner on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: The strength of ITV was it's regional nature. Why lose the main feature of your coverage.I no longer know what your company stands for.Flag
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Name: Marcus King on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: Supposed to be watching Carlton (London); however anything that is actually worth watching on ITV I will watch on UTV or Channel. Thames had a great formula....why wreck itFlag
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Name: Andrew Sharps on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: I think regional identity is a big part of ITV's appeal. Take that away, ITV has no more appeal than Sky1.Flag
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Name: Glen Thompsett on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: I work for LWT as one of its main announcers and tremble for the future of ITVFlag
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Name: Mark Roberts on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: This is will affect local tv.Flag
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Name: Mark Cavendish on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments:Flag
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Name: Mark Blackman on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: I have memories of in-vision continuity on Granada in the early to mid 1990s. This sort of continuity and out-of-vision continuity created a personal touch to ITV, which the BBC simply didn't have. ITV just won't be ITV anymore without regional continuity. Lets fight to make it stay!Flag
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Name: Colm O'Rourke on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: ITV shouldn't be disregarding the grounding on which it began, it is a disgrace and wouldn't have happened if the 1990 Broadcasting Act was thrown out of the Commons at the first reading. At least where I live we still have local continuity (in-vision at that) and long may it stay.Flag
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Name: Patrick Corbyn on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments:Flag
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Name: Ian Lawson on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: Please dont make local tv presentation as sterile as the programes themselvesFlag
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Name: Dominic Maudlin on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments:Flag
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Name: Ben Hale on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: Those days appear to be gone sadly, but I'm offering all of my support and so is everyone who helps me with Totally TVS.Flag
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Name: Iain Turnbull on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: Regional announcers have a better understanding of there audience and whats going on in the region than someone who is over 300 milesFlag
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Name: Allen Jeremy on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: I think ITV have no right in ditching the regional announcersFlag
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Name: Steven Oliver on Aug 24, 2002State:Country:Comments: It's sad that regional continuity is finally being done away with, though if truth be told, the rot really started 11 years ago, with the franchise auctions and latterly with the trend for centralising continuity. In the GMG North regions the standard is diabolical, with the same ident being used time and time again. Regional TV should be just that - regional, but IMO, sadly, we've gone too far down the road of corporate greed for these days to ever return.Flag
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Name: Chris Corbin on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: Keep ITV regional!!!!!Flag
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Name: Thomas Crowe on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: Seemingly fashionable "corporate identity" is marginalising the identities of the regions for the sake of hard-nosed marketing. Regional identities were the lynch-pin of ITV in the past - why not anymore They worked then, they still can...Flag
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Name: Nicky Lotay on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: Save ITV local announcers!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1Flag
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Name: Steve Sowerbutts on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: ITV have always been protective of their regional stations until recently. It was something to be proud of -local programming, local continuity, local presentation etc. all sadly now on it's way out. A terrible shame.Flag
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Name: Oliver Ashmole on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: I have watched ITV for as long as I can remember and what I like about it is the regional service, I find the BBC service un-interested due to lack of regional identity. Making ITV 1 one company will make it like the BBC and as far as I can see this will be the end of ITV because people feel that a local ITV company's it is more of their station, just look what Carlton did to Central and Westcountry by making it one company over 3 region’s, it made it less of a local feel. I think that you should re-consider what you are doing to a popular channel before ruing it forever.Flag
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Name: John Ridley on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: i personally think it would be a big mistake to scrap regional continuty because it would only serve to alienate viewers some of which are very loyal to there regional tv stations and to see them divested of there identitys in such away you would most certainly lose a great many viewersFlag
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Name: Scott Gibbs on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: I feel that ITV have gone the wrong way by allowing large companies like carlton and granada to swallow up other companies. It shows how wrong the regulators were in the last round of franchise awards in 1992. most of the regional companies are still the original holders and should be aloud to keep their identities!!Flag
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Name: Andrew Costin on Aug 24, 2002State:Country:Comments: Keep TV local!!!!Flag
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Name: JAMIE McIVOR on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments:Flag
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Name: Luke O'Sullivan on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: This is an outrage! Regionality was ITV's Unique Selling Piont, and now they are throwing it away, becoming a channel no different to Sky One or Channel 4! ITV has been going pear shaped since the 1990 Franchaise/Liecence renewal!Flag
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Name: Jonathan Orme on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments:Flag
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Name: Gex Gecko on Aug 24, 2002State: TNCountry: UKComments:Flag
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Name: Steve Saul on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: Please keep the `Granada` name and the local continuity announcers. Granada is a stronger local and more recognisable brand. ITV1 is facelessFlag
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Name: Chris Wathen on Aug 24, 2002State:Country: UKComments: I implore you to look at your record: ever since 1998 you've been centralising things at 'ITV'. And ever since 1998 you've been loosing money and your programme quality has suffered. UTV, the only ITV station to have a total unique presentation style, is also the only ITV station not to be in financial trouble. Perhaps you should think about that.Flag