Save ITV\'s local announcers and regional identities

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   Name: Mark McMillan on Aug 24, 2002

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   Name: Dale Skitt on Aug 24, 2002

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   Name: Edmund Wheeler on Aug 24, 2002

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   Name: Alexander Delaney on Aug 24, 2002

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   Country: UK

   Comments: ITV1 is faceless and agressive. The local company names and logos are more friendly. More people identify with the local brands. It will also be silly having the local news called Granada News on ITV1

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   Name: Dave Roberts on Aug 24, 2002

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   Country: UK

   Comments: This could possibly be the very worst in a long line of recent blunders by 'ITV'. The channel's regionalism is the only thing it has going for it, and to throw it all away and ensure that 'ITV' is just another channel like any other is little short of madness

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   Name: Dean O'Shea on Aug 24, 2002

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   Comments: I firmly beleive that ITV Continuity Announcers belong in the ITV regions. Each ITV region should have it's own Announcers. The ethos of ITV back in the 1950's was all about developing Regional Independent Television Stations. I live in Granadaland...although these days with all the Northern continuity announcements been made in Leeds, sometimes I wonder. I have heard Announcers saying to Granada viewers 'Now here on Tyne Tees...' and 'on Border'. BRING BACK OUR ITV CONTINUITY ANNOUNCERS BACK TO THE REGIONS!The Standards of dress these days are appalling. The other week, there was a male announcer doing the weather in vision. He looked asthough he'd just got out of bed. All he was wearing from the waist up was a crumpled short sleeved shirt with no tie.

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   Name: Raymond Lee on Aug 24, 2002

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   Country: UK

   Comments: This is another example of TV being operated to satisfy the needs of shareholders and not the viewers. Hey!! what the heck though, we'll accept anything they deem to send our way, won't we

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8. 58
   Name: Mark Gallagher on Aug 24, 2002

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   Country: UK

   Comments: I support your cause.

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   Name: Kieran Dimmick on Aug 24, 2002

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   Comments: How can a network go in twenty years from being obsessed with regional identities to the extent that ATV was destroyed because of its lack of said regional identity into destroying the regional identity altogether Being nice i'd say the network lacked continuity being critical i'd say you were hypocritical souless people who value money far above customer satisfaction. Local television provided a sense of community now what's going to replace it

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    Name: Michael Simons on Aug 24, 2002

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    Country: UK

    Comments: The discotinuation of local continuity and the local identities of ITV is nothing short of a disgrace and must be stopped at once or else ITV will lose public supportfrom viewers and advertisers alike.

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    Name: James Rebbeck on Aug 24, 2002

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    Country: UK

    Comments: I don't know anything about this further because l have been away but it is disgraceful that again ITV are going down the plug hole. Bring back the days when In-Vision TV Announcers were on our screens! Bring Back Thames Television!

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    Name: Matthew Watts on Aug 24, 2002

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    Country: UK

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    Name: Dave Lloyd on Aug 24, 2002

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    Comments: Please save our north-west identity! Granada is another name for the North-West of England and many people refer to it still as Granadaland! Bring back in vision continuity from Manchester asap, as a anonymous voice behind blue card equals a station with no personality (unlike Granada up till around 1998)

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    Name: Mary Aspinall on Aug 24, 2002

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    Country: UK

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    Name: Colin Stone on Aug 24, 2002

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16. 66
    Name: Warren Griffiths on Aug 24, 2002

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    Country: UK

    Comments: The ITV Network is not what it used to these days, it's all branding, branding, branding!

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17. 67
    Name: Martin Lowrie on Aug 24, 2002

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    Country: UK

    Comments: The whole reason why ITV was setup in the first place was to provide viewers with a local station,and not London based service!

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    Name: Louis Rayner on Aug 24, 2002

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    Country: UK

    Comments: Come on TV Bosses, keep ITV with it's USP: ITV is Regional Television, it was at the heart of it's creation, and in a area of cheap and cheerful digital channels, help make ITV stand out from the crowd: Keep our regional identities!

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    Name: Joanne Gray on Aug 24, 2002

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    Country: UK

    Comments: Having grown up in the 1970s and witnessing the rapid and sad decline of UK TV into some kind of impersonal unappetising farce, the local continuity announcer was our last (albeit unseen) link with our local identity, now we are to lose that as well! This isn't on!

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20. 70
    Name: Martin Phillp on Aug 24, 2002

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    Country: UK

    Comments: This decision is ill thought out and pointless. Sort out the programming before making announcers redundant.

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21. 71
    Name: Michael Paraskos on Aug 24, 2002

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    Country: UK

    Comments: At a time when England is in the middle of a debate on political devolution it is ridiculous that ITV is scrapping its regional identities. ITV made a huge error of judgement with ITV Digital. It is about to do the same again.

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22. 72
    Name: Jason James on Aug 24, 2002

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    Country: UK

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23. 73
    Name: Adrian Ruck on Aug 24, 2002

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    Country: UK

    Comments: Get rid of local continuity ... one of the only things that is still local about ITV ... and I'll stop watching.

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    Name: Greg Docherty on Aug 24, 2002

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    Country: UK

    Comments: ITV are destroying local tv by making themselves just like the BBC just to get good ratings.There is no respect for the companies that served us throughout the last forty or more years.

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    Name: STEPHEN DULIEU on Aug 25, 2002

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    Country: UK

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26. 76
    Name: Anthony Harrison on Aug 25, 2002

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    Country: UK

    Comments: Please retain regional ITV identities - it's a selling point, not a hinderance.

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27. 77
    Name: Mark Laker on Aug 25, 2002

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    Country: UK

    Comments: Save the tyne tees name before all programmes.

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    Name: Simon Belshaw on Aug 25, 2002

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    Country: UK

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    Name: John White on Aug 25, 2002

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    Comments: The people of the North East should revolt at the way TTTV been strangled over a number of years. This started when they were bought by YTV and stripped bare of resources and in vision announcers. The rot has continued apace. It is time to reverse this not speed it up in the name of progress!

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    Name: Ian Lawson on Aug 26, 2002

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    Name: Kevin Gordon on Aug 26, 2002

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    Name: Said Bhugeloo on Aug 26, 2002

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    Country: UK

    Comments: i think that thr rebranding of the itv network is stupid. for instance, all the companies that fought in the franchise battles such as thames television, TVS and others would have stoped transmitting just so one ruthless main company could lose all the regional names and also the reputation that they held just so that they could have a name such as "ITV1 london or ITV1 Scotland" i think it is outrageus

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33. 83
    Name: Tony Pickett on Aug 26, 2002

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    Country: UK

    Comments: ITV must restore regional identity not take it away further!

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34. 84
    Name: Ian Sage on Aug 27, 2002

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    Country: UK

    Comments: Regional identity has always made ITV distinctive. I would rather watch Carlton and London Weekend Television than ITV1

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    Name: DAN SHARP on Aug 27, 2002

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    Comments: ITV is rapidly losing touch..we like our regional identities. Now most of our programmes are influenced by a control-mad board in London, and two operators who now produce trashy programmes...even YTV is now like C5... BREAK UP THE NETWORK!!!

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36. 86
    Name: Simon Brown on Aug 27, 2002

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    Country: UK

    Comments: We don't want National Announcers. We want Local!

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    Name: Mark Cordell on Aug 27, 2002

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    Country: UK

    Comments: ITV is not one channel but a regional channel, that's half the point.

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    Name: Ian Barber on Aug 27, 2002

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    Name: Gavin Blackburn on Aug 28, 2002

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    Country: UK

    Comments: ITV is fast turning into a faceless, characterless BBC clone. Getting rid of the regional continuity announcements and perhaps regional identities altogether is a gross betrayal of everything that ITV was set up tp do. Its regional stations were its main strength at one time but now, rather than each being an independent part of a great whole, they are now group owned businesses designed to be little brothers to the mighty (and rather hideous) Carlton and Granada.

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    Name: Robert Greenway on Aug 28, 2002

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    Country: UK

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    Name: Alan Potter on Aug 28, 2002

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    Name: John Bourn on Aug 29, 2002

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    Name: Anthony Mcnally on Aug 29, 2002

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    Country: UK

    Comments: this was news to me and i bet lots of other people too !

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44. 94
    Name: Jeremy Ralph on Aug 29, 2002

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    Country: UK

    Comments: No local continuity on ITV!! What a stupid idea - are ITV afraid of being local

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45. 95
    Name: Paul Holloway on Aug 29, 2002

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    Name: Will Tudor on Aug 29, 2002

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    Country: UK

    Comments: I really don't understand the need to destroy all evidence of a regional service. Although nowadays they may just be voices, the regional announcers are very important to the region they work for as their individual personality is a very important factor in keeping the viewers tuned in. I also think that by getting rid of all the regional names will leave viewers with a TV network with very little regional differences and therefore they will feel that there is no connection between the programmes they watch and the area they live in. Please, do not take our local identities and voices away, it will do no one any amount of good.

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    Name: Mike Lawler on Aug 29, 2002

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    Country: UK

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    Name: Mark Warren on Aug 30, 2002

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    Country: UK

    Comments: Don't do it. It's a waste of time, there is no benefit whatsoever. It is merely a cost-cutting exercise.....again!

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    Name: Stephen Lauder on Aug 30, 2002

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    Country: UK

    Comments: Keep ITV Continuity Regional!

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    Name: Tom Bloomfield on Aug 30, 2002

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    Country: UK

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