Talk:Westward Television

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If someone can help me check some facts added to the "Childrens" section that would be great.

Can someone with access to a full set of IBA yearbooks confirm that:

a)Terry Fleet was programme controller when The Show without A Title first aired

b)Terry Fleet left Westward soon afterwards

According to the yearbooks I have, Terry Fleet was Programme Controller at Westward between 1974 and 1981. In 1969 the programme controller was J Oxley.

Therefore, if anyone with the 1970-1973 yearbooks could confirm this it would be a great help.

Kecske Bak 19:31, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

I've removed:

"By the end, however, both westward and TSW were considered quirky and rather old fashioned"

You don't say by whom. That means these are what Wikipedia call, "weasel words", something we are all supposed to avoid.

"lacking the slickness of larger ITV franchises."

Ditto.

"Perhaps perversely this added to the loyality felt by many viewers in the South West."

Ditto

Kecske Bak 19:30, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

To Wiki-fy the article, I removed some statements.

TSW was little different to Westward 

They were different enough to prompt Channel Television to take their network feed almost exclusively from TVS. This view is also disputed in interviews with ex-Westward/TSW staff, such as Ken McLeod. They were influenced by Westward, but TSW was a very different company and became increasingly different as time went by.

Therefore I feel this statement is both contraversial and an example of weasel words, and therefore would be better given with attribution with contrary opinions also given.

and continued with a somewhat old fashioned approach

It could equally be argued that with the TSW were an innovative company in many ways, as were Westward (Eurowestward, North Devon Project, etc). You can look at Sendall or the ITA/IBA yearbooks.

  including on screen continunity announcers.

This states as a fact that on-screen continuity is old-fashioned - that's a subjective opinion.

Westcountry television susceeded TSW and brought a more modern and professional approach  
including ending Gus Honeybun.

Again, you are stating categorically that Gus Honeybun was part of an unprofessional approach when that's merely your personal judgement.

Westcountry television was itself taken over by Carlton which merged with Granada to form  
ITV as it exists today (2007)

Doesn't belong in an article on Westward, that's what the hyperlinks are for.

Kecske Bak 12:44, 6 April 2007 (UTC)