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Andy Lewis
@andylewis.bsky.social

Around this time, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue did a "blues" round based upon this. I think it went "I woke up this morning, tuned in to the new cultural ITV2. I heard the announcer as I sat down on the loo, "It's time for Antonioni's "Crossroads", and later Jean Luc Godard's "Coronation Rue". -

Ste Gordon
@sgordonthe87.bsky.social

If you think about it, we got a bit of a mish mash of what was said there. We got a channel independent of ITV management, but ITV was there at arms length, with Channel 4 taking some of the more niche PSB offerings from ITV. Obviously neither WoS and NaT Extra materialised.

Bozz
@steveboswell.bsky.social

Really interesting to see how the same ideas were rehashed (almost verbatim) decades later for digital expansion - More4 News, BBC Four in general, Radio 5 Live Sports Extra...

TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N
@transdiffusion.org

These types of plans are slowly narrowing down into what we got in 1982: Channel 4. They've come a long way from the plans 10 years before that would've seen ITV-2 as basically the same as ITV-1.