Granada takeover of LWT - ITN news report February 1994

[@omegaman6494]

The start of the series of mergers that saw Granada and Carlton buy up the regional franchises before Granada took over Carlton and renamed itself ITV

[@SuperTed19021]

😥 PS: ITV *should have* stopped calling themselves "ITV" at around this point also.

[@johnking5174]

If there was a choice of between being owned by Granada or owned by Carlton, London Weekend Television got the better company. Carlton were brutal bastards when they took over other ITV regions. Granada was a bit more fair (at first) and even handed.

[@rajnirvan3336]

Carlton wiped away regional identities eg Central being 1 of them

[@jasejj]

LWT's plan to head off Granada's hostile takeover, was to merge with YTV. Ownership rules in place at the time meant that YTV would have to sell off Tyne Tees to facilitate this, and the idea was to have Anglia take TTTV (Anglia having their own takeover issues at that time). Anglia took one look at the parlous state of TTTV and decided it was a bargepole job, and the rest is history.

[@rajnirvan3336]

Hated it when Granada took over LWT. But on the other hand at least Granada kept identities unlike Carlton

[@robertcomer2767]

They did but in 2001 they dumped the end caps in favour of crap like 'A Granada London' Production instead of LWT.

[@rajnirvan3336]

@@robertcomer2767 that was around 2002 if I remember

[@robertcomer2767]

@@rajnirvan3336 It only happened for a short period before it all became ITV1.

[@rajnirvan3336]

@@robertcomer2767 that I remember

[@fusionsuper]

@@rajnirvan3336 The Granada endcaps came in November 2001 if I'm not wrong.

[@rtc9063]

All this arguing for mergers, takeovers and better programmes for the viewers. Then the advertising spend didn’t come, Sky gave away digital boxes that everybody then took out subscriptions for and now all we get from ITV is the same drivel from 6 in the morning until 9 at night. The loss of Thames started the rot intensified by Granada getting their hands on LWT!

[@robertcomer2767]

The loyalty of those two. As soon as Granada took over they were out the door with their hefty bank balance.

[@thurrockPOINT]

then don't kill lwt off then run lwt very well and don't do a bad job keeping lwt going we dont see Granada every come up

[@0ConkersBadFurDay0]

And it was all downhill from then on 😭

[@mrhammadmossop1988ul-haq]

Thanks for this brilliant upload

[@ashooaway]

Sad, very sad.

[@anthonyperkins7556]

Typical empire building by Granada along with Carlton, or should be, Crapton