ITV finally gets something right.

Today, I noticed that finally, ITV1+1 shows the correct region. Until recently, in the South West of England, you couldn't guarantee that every programme that aired on ITV1, would air 1 hour later on ITV1+1. That was because whilst our ITV1 region is Westcountry West, our ITV1+1 region was Wales, and there were several notable differences. Regional news was different and there were minor variations in the schedule.

Now, we have the right region on ITV1+1, Westcountry West, on both Freeview and Sky. Knowing ITV's past history as well as I do, and having only heard about changes happening on the Sky platform, I was half expecting to find ITV1+1 had been changed to Westcountry East on Sky, and to still be Wales on Freeview. Thankfully, ITV managed to surpass my low expectations, so congratulations ITV for managing to do that.

Unfortunately, I have even less expectation of ITV doing anything that would make me think they would be getting anywhere close to providing a proper regional broadcasting service.

S4/C comes under pressure from Welsh language activists.

Most of the time, I have no problem with Welsh, Gaelic and Cornish language activists.  They're promoting minority languages in a world that seems to be dominated mostly by English.  But this is going into the "looney tunes" category, because it is silly.

A welsh-language pressure group, complaining about a proposal, not something that is definitely happening, but a proposal, that S4/C takes over the English language news on ITV Wales.

I admit it would be good if they managed to take over their own provision for news, from the BBC.  But I will applaud them for having the guts to even propose a move to take on the production of ITV Wales News.  Maybe it will show ITV that regional news is not regarded by every broadcast corporation as a liability, but as something to be proud of.