ITV Local

ITV Local

Type of site	News
Owner	ITV plc
Created by	ITV plc
Website	itv.com/local
Commercial	Yes
Registration	No
Current status	Test phase 2005-06, closed 2009

ITV Local was a broadband service provided by ITV plc, the contractor and provider of ITV in 11 of the 15 Television Regions. First established in 2005, the website provided local news, weather and features on demand 24 hours a day.

The project began with two trial services in Brighton and Hastings. Due to the success of this, the service was expanded to cover the entire region, then whole of the ITV plc network.

On 4 March 2009, it was announced that Local would close as a separate business. It did on 17 March 2009, with the regions integrated into ITV.com.

Features

ITV Local included the following:

Local jobs, classified adverts and dating
All versions of the regional news bulletins
Extended news features and updates through the day
Entertainment features, extended interviews and an entertainments listings service
Five-day forecasts for all regions
Many regional programmes, such as Country Ways and current affairs series Focus as shown on Meridian and Metroland in London
Short films sent in by viewers
Live streaming cameras from scenic locations and special events
Short features from local professional filmmakers

Each region's site also featured special channels unique to that area and short-duration special events. ITV Local has hosted special features for British University Sports Association, Cowes Week, the Notting Hill Carnival, Thames Festival, Latitude Festival and the British International Motor Show.

Additional UGC services

ITV Local also offered a range of UGC-based multi-regional services under the brand, including an iReport-like video upload and social networking site known as YourNews^[1] and a site based around local sports events.^[2] A new photo-sharing and photo-mapping site was planned for mid-August.

ITV restructuring and planned closure

Changes to the regional structure and output of ITV ^[3] negatively affected ITV Local, which was heavily dependent on ITV regional content. ITV's core TV advertising business also performed poorly due to the economic downturn. As a result, on March 4, 2009 ITV announced that Local would close in April, subject to consultation. The Scoot sub-brand was marked for sale along with Friends Reunited. Some services such as news, weather and UGC may be transferred to the ITV.com parent brand. ITV Local closed on 17 March 2009 as a separate business, with the regions integrated to ITV.com After months of waiting ITV Local has been put online however the site has not officially launched.

References

External links

ITV Local at itv.com

ITV News (Nations & Regions)

ITV News nations/regions	Anglia Border (Lookaround) / Representing Border Central Channel TV Granada (Granada Reports) London Meridian Tyne Tees UTV (UTV Live / UTV Live Tonight) Wales (Wales at Six) West Country Yorkshire (Calendar)

Non ITV plc regions	STV North / STV Central: STV News / Scotland Tonight

Former programmes	ATV: ATV Midlands News, ATV Today Anglia: About Anglia Grampian: North Tonight Scottish: Scotland Today Southern: Day by Day / Scene South East TSW: TSW Today TVS: Coast to Coast Thames: Thames News Thames Valley: Thames Valley Tonight Tyne Tees: Northern Life West: The West Tonight LWT: LWT News Westward: Westward Diary Westcountry: Westcountry Live ITV Breakfast: GMTV News (South), Daybreak Northern Ireland, Daybreak Scotland

Related	ITV Breakfast ITV News ITV Weather itv.com stv.tv

ITV

Channels

Current

Domestic	SD: ITV, STV, UTV ITV2 ITV3 ITV4 ITVBe ITV Encore CITV The Store HD: ITV HD, STV HD, UTV HD ITV2 HD ITV3 HD ITV4 HD ITV Encore HD

International	ITV Choice UTV Ireland

Defunct

Companies

Current	ITV plc STV Group plc

Former	Alpha Television Carlton Communications plc Granada plc ITV Digital Ltd Trident Television UTV Media plc Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television

Divisions, brands
and services

Current	Children's: CITV News: ITV News (ITN) Sport: ITV Sport Production: ITV Studios (Australia), 12 Yard, Big Talk, The Garden, Mammoth Screen, Potato, Shiver, So Television, Twofour, Weather: ITV Weather Online: itv.com, stv.tv Catch up: ITV Hub, STV Player

Defunct	ITV Day ITV Digital ITV Local ITV Play ITV Schools UTV Player u.tv

Franchises and
regions

National
franchises

Breakfast: TV-am (1983–1992), GMTV (1993–2010), ITV Breakfast (2010–present)
Teletext: ORACLE (1974–1992), Teletext Ltd. (1993–present)

Regional
franchises

Northern Scotland: Grampian Television
Central Scotland: Scottish Television
Scottish and English Border: Border Television
Northern Ireland: UTV
North East England: Tyne Tees Television
Yorkshire and Lincolnshire: Yorkshire Television
North of England (weekdays), later North West England and Isle of Man (all week): Granada Television
North of England and Midlands (weekends): ABC Network
Wales and the West of England: TWW, WWN/Teledu Cymru, ITSWW, HTV
Midlands (weekdays), later Midlands (all week): ATV
Midlands (all week): Central Independent Television
East Anglia: Anglia Television
London (weekdays): Associated-Rediffusion, Thames Television, Carlton Television
London (weekends): ATV, LWT
South and South East England: Southern Television, TVS, Meridian Broadcasting
South West England: Westward Television, TSW, Westcountry Television
Channel Islands: Channel Television

Unsuccessful
franchise bids

London Weekday, East Anglia and South and South East England: CPV-TV
North West England: North West Television

Non-franchise
regions

Current	ITV Central ITV London ITV Meridian ITV West Country ITV Tyne Tees & Border STV

Defunct	ITV Thames Valley

Regulators

ITA (1954–72)
IBA (1972–91)
ITC (1991–2003)
Ofcom (2003–present)

Other

ITV Emergency National Service (1968)

ITV Telethon

Category

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