Abstract
The former chief executive of ITN looks at the future of the most-watched television news in history, examines its current predicaments and observes: "The obituaries for ITN may be a little premature, although I suspect the race between survival and oblivion will be a darned close run thing. If it does turn out to be the end, the spirit of ITN and the memory of the many extraordinary things it has achieved over 50 years will, I am sure, continue in the various successor newsrooms and also in the many executive offices at Sky News and BBC News now occupied by former ITN staff. And the pensioners in the ITN 1955 Club will still meet up regularly to re-live past glories and complain even more about how things are definitely not what they used to be."
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