[XIII]

ITV has threatened to drop everything at some point.  This isn't new.
Everything ITV has ever done or has the pleasure of, they've threatened to drop, stop or generally had a good moan about - you usually see this sort of stuff around the time of the automatic renewals.


And no, the franchises will not be put back out to tender 1991 style.  That's happened, its gone, its never happening again.  The chances of ITV throwing all its toys out the pram just not to want to produce any news is totally overkill.  All that will happen is they'll go to Ofcom, cap in hand and come to a compromise - which is code for less output.

This is the same ITV that extended their evening news to an hour, I imagine the threat is an empty one and they'll get current affairs hours reduced by Ofcom.

I agree, the franchise model isn't coming back. It's 2022, not 1992.