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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
Can't remember it's name, I think it was one of the Welsh ITV companies that went bust. It didn't get much advertising because it's fanchise area had a sparse population. The solution was to tag it's area onto a neighbouring franchise area.
In fact, a lot of the new ITV companies came perilously close to financial collapse. Once established, however, they were referred to by one owner as being the nearest thing to being given a licence to print money!
Found it:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wale...rth_Television |
Right. Well that’s an interesting story but it was an extremely specific set of circumstances that doesn’t demonstrate the very broad point you were trying to make. WWN suffered from a small service area, delays building one of its key transmitters and ludicrous rules about the amount of Welsh language content it was supposed to produce itself. Its failure was ultimately a failure of the design of its franchise. Public service broadcasting on channel 3 is managed very differently these days.