Tvam- Timeslot

[nwtv2003]

You only have to look at Thames Television in their winding down period. Yes they made redundancies, but at least they continued with a very good news service for London during 1992. Thames were a prime example of how to wind down and exit gracefully, in addition to cost savings.

The thing is Thames were still obligated to provide a local news service until the very last day. They would have slowly let staff go throughout the year rather than making the changes obvious on screen at a local level. At a national level Thames didn’t do a great deal in 1992, in comparison to previous years. The only shows they made as normal were the ones that they knew would be on after 1993, like The Bill. Unlike TV-am, Thames were still going to be around, but not as a broadcaster.

Obviously TV-am put their names forwards to be part of random applications such as the national teletext franchise after 1993, the only thing they actually won was part of the Virgin Radio consortium, but they sold off their share pretty quickly.