Writing at the Telegraph's three line whip he says that the decision of the government back in 2002 to waive the next round of franchising helped pull the rug from under the regional companies.
because its network was regularly franchised. Under performing regional ITV companies were sacked; those with fresh ideas were hired.
And then just to make matters worse it
1.also manipulated the ownership of ITV's franchises, using competition rules to weaken Carlton and
2.allowed Granada, the stale northern franchise-holder, to gobble up most of the network.
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