Programmes Certain Companies just didn't like

Unlikely it would have happened or been allowed to happen but if it had it's pretty inevitable that within a decade one would have bought out the other and they'd be back as one brand. However I suspect the ITN brand might have lasted that little bit longer on screen as any region staying with ITN would have wanted to emphasise it.

Obviously news has always been strictly networked on ITV but if some regions were looking to move News at Ten in the 90s I wonder if the option of ITN producing another bulletin for certain regions at a different time was ever considered, even if just on a trial basis so the ITC could have monitored it's impact.

Would such a move be feasible? ITN might have thought it was a waste of money. Could other providers e.g. Reuters have been interested?

Clashing with the Channel 4 News?!

Yeah, that would've been stupid. Though saying that, does the BBC national news ever clash with Newsnight (I know the local news usually does)?

At one point very difficult, during the 80s and 90s C4N and NaT shared the same studio, although one of other could have used another of course, but two intensive programmes at the same might have over stretched ITN's resources?