Beginning of the end of regional ITV... ironic in this piece it states studios and production would be retained.... in the modern ITV of 2016 Anglia's studios are now half in size, just retaining a couple of small news studios for local news and a newsroom.... very sad :-(
Indeed.... What we had... what has been lost... Small production companies cannot match the vibes we enjoyed in these big TV "factories..!" So much fun and happy memories...
6.5 mins of Anglia on Anglia. Ultra-indulgent! Not sure viewers from Lowestoft to Luton would have been that bothered about share prices and ad revenues frankly. They would just have wanted to know that the Anglia name was staying (it did)
Well, it wouldn't last long anyway. The box had been opened and we were heading toward an inevitable slide to a single itv. They were dreaming if they thought this would bring more work to Anglia studios.
@@SuperTed19021 Yeah, the TVS/Meridian studios were rather fab... as were, of course, YTV's in Leeds, HTV's in Cardiff... Central's in Birmingham, Granada's in Manchester... Loved 'em all... (Oh, yes, and BBC's at White City - but that's another story.) I miss what we had.... golden years of British TV. Proud and happy to have been part of that....
I am from the Meridian region, but this was when ITV started dying. Regional companies taking over other ones is no longer Independent Television. Might have well renamed it at this point, let alone when Granada and Carlton merged.
Later MAI would become U&M, and tried to merge with Carlton, but didn’t, and sold everything they had to Granada. HTV would still go to Carlton anyway but still.
Just be thankful Anglia Television was not bought by Carlton - Carlton pissed over all regions they bought, just look at how they treat Central Television and Westcountry Television wise.
That’s true. First they forced the Central Cake axed and replaced with utter crap indents and then dropped the name altogether. I, for one, was glad that name dropped to ITV1 but then the quality stopped
Granada were arguably worse. Desperate Cartlon renaming Central and Westcountry, they remained independent entities more or less. The same cannot be said for the stations that Granana acquired, with the exception of LWT.
