BBC News 24 report on ITV Digital collapse
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- News report from BBC News 24 on the collapse of ITV Digital. This clip is from 15:00 on 27th March 2002, at the moment representatives went to the High Court to formally place the business in administration.
To learn more about ONdigital and ITV Digital go to www.onhistory.co.uk
The utter incompetence of the two on charge. Buying channels from Sky at the same rate they were charging the public. And then they made out they were misled that the transmitters couldn't boost out the digital signal strong enough. It was disgraceful. Then the bloody thing started to work when it all became free to air!
They kicked Sky out of the project.
Had they not done so, they would've carried Sky's channels at an affordable price.
They apparently couldn't make the digital broadcasts too strong or it would've affected analogue viewers.
It was evident from the outset they couldn't broadcast the digital services at high power.
@@anthonyperkins7556 correction: they were forced to kick sky out of the project. sky's involvement broke competition laws that were in place at the time. so they were forced to compete with sky instead of working with them
I know! Freeview was a better idea...
And yet this was before Freeview perfected it
1:38 Downturn in advertising?!!? The ads were great i loved the first one
Going into administration is the same as bankruptcy but you have pay all debts off
What hapened to the audio? Nothing but distortion on the right.
ITV Digital collapse happened because of Football League.
The service fell harden than Kermit when he fell of the building.
They need to do a documentary on what went so wrong at the left wing bbc
BBCi should've just said: Alright ITV, you dun goofed up.
Advertised by a money and they made a monkey of Granada and Carlton
lol
I always wanted an itv digital in my LIFE!!!!! NOOOO😭😭ITS GONE
ITV Digital is useless these days so it would have shut down during the digital switchover
@@SprinterPlayz Freeview is ITV Digital. The free to air channels continued broadcasting and the licenses were continued by Freeview. Some ITV Digital kit continues to work on some Freeview channels to this day
@@memediatek Do you have any proof of ITV Digital things still working?
@@SprinterPlayzno he doesn't because it was gone 21 years ago
@madboy1able Yup. It was.
Hmmm, the ITV digital headquarters was (previously named) Marcopolo house. Interesting
And it was the HQ of failed satellite broadcaster British Satellite Broadcasting, too.
The building is cursed!
@@stickytapenrust6869 Yeah exactly
MPH was built for BSB at huge expense in the early 90s (they wanted to come across as high end like the BBC vs Sky who used a shabby old office). It's demolished now.
There was a BBC Four documentary called 'The Curse of Marco Polo House' in the 2000s which I'd love to see.
OMG its BBCi. LOL!
Poorly itv digital
is that jurassic park 3 at 2:04
They shut down because of soccer
What the crap!
football*
The deal with the football league collapsing was just the straw that broke the camels back. They overpaid for the rights and due to not enough customers subscribing to the service they were never going to make the money back. Their signals were not strong enough for customers either, every year a quarter of their customers left for sky or cable.
@@debbiemckeown7626 Not forgetting about how easy the boxes were to pirate, effectively making the premium channels (such as MTV, Nickelodeon etc) free to view.
football*
19 since this happened
It's weird hearing a posh English accent that pronounces all the 'r's
Btw I'm not from the UK
No problem its a great
It went off because of soccrper what the crap
unrealted
Football League
Freeview is rubbish
WAYNE1977100 Freeview is not rubbish
It’s good for what it is. Much better value for money for the TV license than just 4, maybe 5, channels on analogue!
Aaaahhhhh, analogue TV. Now *that* WAS rubbish!!!
@@stickytapenrust6869 No it wasn't. As my Dad said, "Why do we need all these channels?"
@@MrThecarebear Really? It wasn’t rubbish? Say that to those who lived in hilly areas but where the broadcasters couldn’t be bothered to erect a relay. Or to anyone who was watching Sky when it rained before Sky Digital.
Q (R)(cool=true)(bye😢 ITV=true)
Q (F)(Not cool=True)(Good bye ITV=True)