Talk:Granada Television
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[edit] Copied
This is so much like a TV website, Transdiffusion. Certain comments are identical.
[edit] Not really
I've checked and it's certainly not a direct copy of any Transdiffusion page. But then, Transdiffusion stuff is Creative Commons, so it wouldn't matter that much anyway. Perhaps any similarities are simply because this is a history piece on Granada - the facts are known, so any article listing them will resemble any other article listing them! Redvers 11:43, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Brand identity
Is the sentence "if any child in the UK is asked "Where is Granada?" they will probably point to the home of Coronation Street rather than Spain," really true any more? I wouldn't have thought so in these days of one single ITV entity. Angmering 00:24, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
- Probably not any more, the empire builders have managed to eradicate local identity out of most of the ITV regions, unfortunately. -- Arwel 02:06, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
- Indeed. I think I shall go ahead and remove the comment from the article. Angmering 11:31, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] 1968
It's not made clear exactly what territory Granada lost in 1968. PMA 16:49, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Granada still exists
How long has this article been in past tense? Granada is still the official franchise holder for the North West. It still has productions under the Granada name, for other UK broadcasters (not ITV) and overseas. It more or less owns ITV as they made a reverse takeover of Carlton. It is the franchise holder for the North West, even though it is owned by ITV Plc, just like all the other franchises which are still liscensed under their old name. Marbles333 09:14, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Proposed change of Opening Paragraph
As I mentioned above, the opening paragraph makes it sound as if Granada no longer exists. Here is a suggestion I have come up with:
Granada Television is the British ITV (commercial television) contractor for the "Northwest England", 7 days a week, and has been since 1968. Previously it held the "North of England" weekday franchise from 1954 (broadcasting began on May 3, 1956) until 1968. Granada was the only one of the original four ITA franchisees from 1954 which survived as a franchise holder into the twenty-first century, until the merger of its parent company, Granada plc in 2004 into ITV plc (however Granada legally still exists). It had a strong reputation (along with Thames Television) of providing public-service programmes for ITV mixing drama, comedy and current affairs.
Marbles333 10:21, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Slogans
I'm going to take out the "Slogans used" section, as the examples given weren't slogans, they were just the ITA/IBA mandated station announcements at the start and end of transmission. -- Arwel (talk) 21:54, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
