Programmes Certain Companies just didn't like

The live show on a Sunday was 50 minutes with a repeat screened every Friday evening, edited down to 30 minutes. The edit would take place every Thursday afternoon ready for the Friday evening screening. One Thursday afternoon they were making a start on the edit, and happened to be flicking through a newspaper where they discovered that the BBC had moved it a day forward to Thursday evening - without telling them.

It was actually the previous year's replay, Spurs vs QPR. Possibly another reason why YTV decided against it was because the European Cup Final was the night before so they decided they didn't want live football two nights running (Brian Moore had to fly back from Rotterdam to commentate on both of them).



Yes, I think they did show the trophy presentation but ITV Sport extended the coverage for another half hour for interviews and analysis and so on, and I think Yorkshire were the only region to decide not to bother hanging around. The other interesting League Cup Final story is that in 1993, when it was Arsenal vs Sheffield Wednesday, the trophy presentation was massively delayed when Steve Morrow broke his arm in the over-boistrous celebrations, and in the end ITV decided to show adverts and then play it in as live afterwards. This was alright, but you couldn't see the royal box from the commentary box and had to commentate on the presentation off the telly - so Alan Green on BBC Radio was watching adverts while it happened and had to simply guess what was happening, based on the crowd noise.



There was a similar instance circa 1996 when HTV had got a bit of a slagging in the ITC performance review for boring regional programmes shoved in off-peak slots, so they immediately rescheduled regional shows for 7pm on Monday and Wednesday, moving the network shows to 5.10. Six months later, when the point had been proven, they moved them back.

It never happened till Sept 1993 and at that point there moved alot of stuff around.
* 17.10 is where the network stuff appeared
* 17.40 Evening news
* 18.00 Home and away
* 18.25 Scotland Today
* 19.00 Local or network shows.

Thing was the 18.30 slot had been used for high Road, Scottish action, and Gaelic programmers from April 1990 - Sept 1993. You have to wonder why rejig everything around, to move the network stuff ALL the way to 17.10? why not swap the 18.30 and 19pm slots around? There had alot in that 7pm slot, including Scottish passport.

The strange thing is STV been dropping series for years and yet Digital spy would make you feel its only a new thing. Around 2000-03 stv double down on getting decent slots. Monday 8pm all networks show dropped, I remember Gaelic music show got that slot for 2months. My kind of music the last series has never been screened in Scotland, because it got held back so high road could go out at 7pm on a sunday, after Emmerdale went 5 nights a week.

How could HTV move the series back to 17.10 when there were showing ACP in that slot most days?

Because the documentaries were too contentious. The producers told me at a meeting that, although they cannot prove this, they believe that the British media has reached a conclusion what happened on 7/7 so only wants material with evidence that supports the conclusion. Anything that runs counter to the media's conclusion; questions the conclusion; or covers suspicious findings outside of the conclusion will not be accepted even if supported by primary sources of evidence that would stand up strongly in an historical or legal report.

I know a journalist who works for the local rag who has read the official narrative of 7/7 (Report of the official account of the bombings in London on 7th July 2005, published by the Home Office on 11 May 2006) and is fully aware that the document is not backed up with primary sources of information, and is riddled with errors and factual inaccuracies. For a start, the authors did not even get the train time right and it was public domain knowledge back in August 2005 that the 7:40 train was cancelled. However, senior management and the media corporation which owns the newspaper, along with over 100 other local newspapers, will not have any of it.

Very true. In fact, the BBC came up with Swap Shop after having noticed their Saturday morning ratings were very poor in the midlands.



Yes, the first series of Tiswas was cut short because the unions wanted the show to be recognised as an actual programme, so it had to be moved out of Studio 4.



Tiswas was never fully-networked (due to Channel not picking it up), but Sep-Dec 1981 was the period were it had its fullest coverage. TVS also started with Number 73 replacing Tiswas for their first six weeks.

There was a great Link, on the Tiswas online site, which actually list who took what over from 74 - 82. I help fill in the gaps, ( thankful I downloaded the stuff )

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To be technically accurate, Scottish Television was simply not acquiring or paying for series that other contractor bought, rather than 'dropping' series.

At point in the 90s HTV floated the idea of sourcing its own national news because of the cost of using ITN. In the 2000s, UTV was part of a consortium, along with Sky and others who bid to get the ITV News contract.

This was in around 1997 as I recall, and was a proposal led by Yorkshire TV with HTV support. The idea had legs, but died off when YTTTV was bought by Granada.

Thats the bit I keep on forgetting, It just getting the right balance, and sometime its not easy, since you have to keep to your legal quotes while other times STV wants to push the boat out. TSW did the same back in the day, TT tried to aswell.

Of course there were always programmes which never had room or just disliked,

I didn't know that. Sounds like what Granada did in the 1960's and what Scottish are doing now. I can understand HTV Wales doing such a thing with a kind of "World News Wales" motif but I'm not sure about YTTTTV.

Back in the early 90s, YTV, Carlton Scottish and a few others all wanted rid of news at ten, but of course there was talk of ITV news at 7pm. ticks all the boxes etc.