Editing ITV Granada (section)

===Present===
ITV made cutbacks, dropping 600 jobs in 2009, which effectively closed the Yorkshire Television Leeds Studios; more redundancies were made in London, leaving Granada relatively unscathed.<ref>{{Cite news |title=ITV cuts: Manchester won't be hardest hit, Countdown comes to Quay Street |url=http://www.how-do.co.uk/north-west-media-news/north-west-broadcasting/itv-cuts%3A-manchester-won%E2%80%99t-be-hardest-hit%2C-countdown-comes-to-quay-street-20090305 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111120011958/http://www.how-do.co.uk/north-west-media-news/north-west-broadcasting/itv-cuts%3A-manchester-won%E2%80%99t-be-hardest-hit,-countdown-comes-to-quay-street-20090305 |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 November 2011 |work=how-do.co.uk |date=5 March 2009 |access-date=28 July 2011 }}</ref> In the 2009 ITV regional news cutbacks, Granada was one of three regions unaffected by changes, except for extending its coverage area to include the [[Isle of Man]], which had previously been served by ITV Border.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Seventeen regions into nine: How the updated ITV local news services will run |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/organgrinder/2009/feb/16/seventeen-regions-into-nine-itv-news |newspaper=The Guardian |date=17 February 2009 |access-date=29 July 2011 |first=Caitlin |last=Fitzsimmons}}</ref>

ITV is obliged by UK communications regulator [[Ofcom]] to produce 50% of its programmes outside London, something it failed to achieve in 2007 and 2008.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Ofcom considers new ITV action |url=http://www.how-do.co.uk/north-west-media-news/north-west-broadcasting/ofcom-considers-new-itv-action-200805222651 |work=How-do.co.uk |date=23 May 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120926091720/http://www.how-do.co.uk/north-west-media-news/north-west-broadcasting/ofcom-considers-new-itv-action-200805222651 |archive-date=26 September 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> With this obligation, retaining Manchester as the northern hub, and an £80m move to [[MediaCityUK]] on 25 March 2013, ITV appears to be committed to the Granada region for the foreseeable future.