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ITV’s continued commitment to cut some £40m from its annual operating budget and shed 1,000 members of staff resulted in more bad news for the regional team yesterday, as it was announced that Granada Factual North would be shut down.
The outfit, which only last year bore witness to the demise of its sister operation in Leeds, will now be closed with the loss of 26 jobs. It has recently made commissions for ITV, with the two-parter Martin Clunes: Man and His Dogs, and Five, producing the six part series Warship. A statement from the firm yesterday outlined the details of the decision: "ITV is considering proposals to restructure its Manchester factual, features and current affairs teams following a detailed review by the Boston Consulting Group, which was carried out as part of a wider appraisal of ITV's Global Content division. "It is proposed that the current affairs and features departments will merge and that the factual division will close at the end of January 2009. “ITV will now be entering into a (30 day) consultation period with employees." The news follows on from the cuts the broadcaster announced to its regional news teams at the beginning of the month – a decision that led to eight further redundancies.
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