Posts Tagged ‘itv’

ITV mistakes video game for IRA footage

A report from the Guardian: It was the most dramatic of footage with which to launch ITV1′s new current affairs show – pictures of the IRA supposedly shooting down a helicopter with weapons supplied by Muammar Gaddafi. But the broadcaster on Tuesday admitted that the images used in the first episode of its new ITV1 [...]

ITV apolgizes for commentator’s remark

From a story by the Press Association: ITV has apologised after Formula 1 commentator Martin Brundle used the word “pikey” during a broadcast. Brundle was interviewing F1 head Bernie Ecclestone live before the start of the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal. The pair were talking over the weekend about Saturday afternoon’s qualifying round, in which [...]