Story of ITV - The rise of Sky, On Digital and mergers/takeovers (2005)

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This is the last 5 minutes of the last episode of the Story of ITV series that was broadcast in July 2005, prior to ITV's 50th birthday celebrations. This clip looks at the rise of Sky, the collapse of On/ITV Digital, the mergers and takeovers within ITV, whilst speaking to people in the know or those who worked for them.

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@robertcomer2767 3 года назад

ITV would have won those rights to the football in 1992 had it not been for Alan Sugar phoning Murdoch to up the bid. He shouldn't have been allowed to be in the room.

@jamesmt142 Год назад

It would have happened anyway once Murdoch knew he could blow them out the water for himself.

@JimmySand9 10 лет назад

They mention Murdoch's winning EPL bid for Sky as something that made it a major player. That's exactly what happened stateside with his Fox network, only with the NFL. They got the rights in 1994 and it immediately made them a serious player, picking up several new affiliates as a result.

@davidvelazquez9473 6 лет назад

Jimmy Sanders At the expense of CBS, which in most cases, got pushed onto undesirable UHF channels, especially in Cleveland and Detroit.

@thomaspynchon2871 3 года назад

This clip inevitably skirts over the corruption of the matter. ITV had the highest bid but the guy who made the decoder boxes for sky (Alan Sugar) also happened to own a football club and so knew what the bid was and he told Murdoch.

@ndulmillenium 3 года назад

And That's ironic.

@darwincity 2 года назад

Sports broadcasting rights have turbocharged the television sector and its financial ecosystem. France has a subscription TV channel (Canal +) which became a major player by ploughing massive sums of money on soccer and rugby transmissions. Oh, and porn.

@JimmySand9 2 года назад

@@darwincity Ooh la la...

@JimmySand9 10 лет назад

I'm loving the close-ups of Emley Moor.

@vibeuk2003 5 лет назад

And then came streaming....

@whatamalike 12 лет назад

The smaller companies being 'commercially vulnerable' is a sign that globalized media markets mean more than actually independently representing your region...a sad sad world we live in.

@imrustyokay 6 лет назад

Yet Conservatives are against Globalization, unless globalization means $$$ or in this case £££££££. What Hypocrites.

@sillygoose635 4 года назад

uh, no,

@cwm6203 2 года назад

@@sillygoose635 Yeah you defiantly convince him there

@Lwyse96 11 лет назад

In 2001, ONDigital was rebranded as ITV Digital, but it wasn't enough. After another year, it went under with debts of £1000 million.

@Kofi_Mensahs_BurnerAccount 4 года назад

Piracy killed itv digital. The encryption on the boxes was a joke and people were cloning cards left right and centre.

@Thebustermann 2 года назад

Mostly pricing and limited channels (compared with other services) killed it. Piracy played a part, but not all of it.

@Kofi_Mensahs_BurnerAccount 2 года назад

@@Thebustermann They were using a bog standard UHF aerial to get channels so you were limited in what you could get. Obvious way less channels than Telewest/NTL with cable and Sky with the dish. ITV digital pricing was up there I agree. I had the standard channels including kids and Sky Sports but no movies and it was pricey. But I knew at least 10 people who had dodgy ondigital boxes and after they went bust, they moved onto the Telewest dodgy boxes. Good times 😊

@flatoutflatbroke 19 дней назад

What killed it was the regulator kicking Sky out of the initial consortium, everything that followed including the piracy was the inevitable result of it.

@rtc9063 Год назад

The shareholders of ITV should have forced Charles Allen far sooner than they did. Wasn’t there a story the refurb of his office at LWT was £1million and now it’s been knocked to the ground!

@robertcomer2767 3 года назад

Wonder how long it will take Sky to go the same way when people go for cheaper streaming options?

@rtc9063 Месяц назад

It was bad day at Granada Television the day Charles Allen arrived and the carnage that he left behind.

@Lwyse96 11 лет назад

Charles Allen looks very upset in the video.

@andycapp5581 2 года назад

Greg Dyke didn’t like “Wupert” Murdoch.

@MarkWhiley 3 года назад

This account kind of skirts over the problems that faced OnDigital/ITV Digital before launch following an ITC ruling that meant the original ownership consortium of OnDigital went from Granada, Carlton and BSkyB to just Granada and Carlton making OnDigital immediate enemies of BSkyB and increasing the cost of the venture with the need to carry Sky channels (as signed for) without the foreseen discount. Plus a load of other problems they got themselves into. See ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q9Bx14o0Z0g.html.

@anthonyperkins7556 4 года назад

From Hameldon Hill near Burnley Lancashire, on a clear day, you can just about see Emley Moor Transmitter west of Huddersfield.

@andycapp5581 2 года назад

And one day you will have fire and the wheel up there too !

@glen1555 18 дней назад

Used to see the Mast from my bedroom window. And at Primary school, in a maths class, we went into the school yard to calculate its height. Using a large scale Ordnance Survey map to get the distance, then an industrial size protractor to calculate the degree to the tip of its antenna. A practical introduction to trigonometry.

@whatamalike 4 года назад

Nah, you could've kept itv as a regional structure, but had become mad with power despite the utter fuck up (on your heads) that was on/itv digital! You almost bankrupted my football team you absolute wankers!