23-05-2023, 03:42 PM
(23-05-2023, 03:34 PM)Ash101 Wrote:AIUI, the 06.00 - 09.25 slot on the CITV Channel is actually controlled by ITV Breakfast, all a relic from the old GMTV2 being a seperate franchise. This and the ITV1 weekend block will presumably meet some franchise obligatios regarding childrens programmes.(23-05-2023, 11:41 AM)WillPS Wrote: It's there to fulfil a breakfast franchise license obligation. Whether or not they are ever sufficiently motivated to eliminate that I don't know, but I can't see much pushback when and if they do.
I'm not quite across how this obligation is filled right now? Does the CITV Channel count, or is it the simulcasts on ITV1 at the weekend?