✩ HTV News on winning their franchise 1991 

HTV WEST SADLY MISSED 😢😢😢

It seems that HTV was another ITV company which struggled very badly in the post-1993 years.

Thank you for this of course-most interesting it is too. Well done!

I wonder how things would go in America if our local stations had to bid for the networks every few years.

Presumably HTV was named after its founder Lord Harlech, rather than town of the same name? The excellent aerial logo was ditched to mark the start of the new franchise period. I’m struggling to think of any major contributions they made to the ITV Network since Robin of Sherwood in the 80s.

Here a a question if HTV lost it's franchise would it have done what their predecessors Television Wales and the West have done i.e. Go off air Months before their contract was up?

The quality from 1993 went significantly downhill. Wales understandably had slightly more of the funding but in the west, the news and other local programming was run on a shoestring and paled in comparison to the new shiny offerings from the new and/or bigger regions. The main news studio consisted of a light shone on a painted sign! 😂 They really let the viewers down.

Okay, who thought that was Danny De Vito in the screenshot?

Ye but a few years later after that it have been killed off by carlton tv.

Weren't they millions of pounds in debt long before they bid so stupidly high. Why didn't the ITC take that into account and let the next bidder take over.

HTV overbid HUGELY!