[Stooky Bill]

I seem to remember that the application said something like they'd try and work with the weekend company to share news and facilities. If that didn't work out then they wouldn't have been in breach of their license of course. They couldn't have been punished for not having a crystal ball.

I seem to recall that LWT were keen to do the same thing, maybe Thames too

Thing is that it was in the interest ls of all 3 London based ITV companies to share things like news and playout. They're very expensive setups to have sitting around not being used for several days a week or 20 hours a day.

In the end it worked out with a very efficient solution as all 3 ended up in the same building all sharing playout and 2 sharing news provider.


Going back to CPV, If things had been different and they'd won but TVam hadn't then actually it would still be a win for them. TVam's studio centre was arguably much more than they needed for the hours it broadcast (GMTV proved this of course) particularly as technology improved in the 90s and 2000s. Having a weekday license and not sharing with the other two would still be a massive improvement in efficiency. Also a lot quicker to set up as a lot of what they needed technically and operationally they already had