ITV Digital Administration - C4 News 27 March 2002 (partial)

Another view of the day of ITV Digital's administration.

[@RaginRonic]

I guess Piers Morgan has always had a big and intolerant mouth. Still so in 2022. =P

[@rachel.mcgowan]

The death of ITV Digital was the conception of Freeview, and ITV were probably best off out of it.. turned out fine in the end.

[@Nick_80599]

The signal was very weak and even freeview now is not available in places like Milton Keynes which is why they depended on Cable. The Tories banned BT from offering Pay TV and also installing fibre except the BT cable franchises of Westminster and Milton Keynes. This was a huge mistake because freeview TV should have been available over Broadband rather than the rubbish we have now and we are still far behind when it comes to fibre to the premises.

[@AlexanderEdoh2013]

And miraculously, we've switched to digital-only broadcasting 10 years later.

[@giles852002]

The Football League was flying high at this point. Sky TV came in 1996/97 season & started showing Football League & it grew to huge popularity. Then On/ITV Digital pay too much for the rights & leave the Football clubs in a bad way & the Football League has not been the same since.

[@evonne_]

and also some clubs have been seriously affected by it...

[@anthonyperkins7556]

They transmitted a weak signal so weak a standard aerial couldn't and wouldn't pick it up properly, you needed a wideband aerial to get any form of decent reception and even when you did, boxes would sometimes lock up or freeze up unannounced.

[@Nick_80599]

They called me a liar when I complained and asked them for a refund a year before it went bust. We went from Telewest (Cable London) analogue cable to ITV Digital only for the service to only show time shifted channels the same as Analogue Cable. The signal was really poor and it was a huge task just getting our money back. When we went back to Telewest, they had launched the Digital cable service and was miles better than ITV Digital and even Sky as they did not make you pay upfront for anything.

[@nickgamer2693]

The collapse of ITV digital lead to ceased transmissions of both “ITV Sport Channel” and “ITV Sport Select.” I wish those sports channels were revived, especially NBCSN (NBC Sports Network).

[@garrysimpson1395]

Sarah Smith,now presents SCOTLAND 2015. Jon Snow and Cathy Newman were reporters on Channel Four News Kristen Gurrul-Murphy was on BBC TV"s NEWSROUND.

[@Mchannnel]

I'm not british so I don't know how digital television work over there. In japan, we don't need to buy extra box or anything to see freeview

[@JohnnyUDoe]

Well, in the UK digital television (Freeview) operates on a free-to-air basis, just like how you receive your channels over in Japan.

[@njclondon2009]

christ, huge news day!

[@rachel.mcgowan]

Not sure if being sarcastic or not, but this was a massive story.

[@njclondon2009]

@@rachel.mcgowan no, not at all, lot's of things happened on 27 March 2002 - didn't you see the other headlines?!

[@rachel.mcgowan]

yeah, sorry I misread that I think

[@DR3ADER1]

Very huge, the saddest bit of news at that time was Moore's death, caused by Progressive Supranuclear Palsy-induced Pneumonia. Moore's health was always on the rocks due to his physical disabilities (which were permanent since his difficult birth, as he always had a withered left leg thanks to a botched and haphazard correctional surgery in his early life to fix his clubbed feet) and years of stress and domestic misery in his personal life (caused by a mixture of divorces, particularly his fourth and final marriage to Nicole Rothschild, a waning career due to the many films in his later life being critical and commercial failures and various symptoms of his eventually terminal illness disrupting his ability to perform on stage during the late-1990s). In general, 2002 is considered to be the FIRST "modern/post-modern" year, it was the first year when nations such as the UK fully embraced digital services and the potential of the internet over analogue broadcasting and the traditional printed press, it was also the first full year of the War on Terror, the first year where a World Cup took place outside of the traditional regions of Mainland Europe and South/Latin America and the first year of the universal adoption of the Euro currency within the European Union.

[@toastedroast]

FeeView how on earth was this not a thing to offer subscription tv along with what you would get with Freeview? Offering a lighter service of carrying sky, uktv, discovery etc. No need of launching own channels but just be a service to offer an alternative.

[@creynolds094]

Wednesday 27th March 2002

[@MatthewPrower]

that poor lil’ monkey plush

[@javierarcadioespinalrodrig2293]

00:13 00:21 00:38

[@rezlynxium7400]

Wow the official collapse of ITV Digital has happened 1 day before my birthday :)