In this episode, Rob Francis tells the quietly dramatic story of how Westward Television lost its place on the ITV map and slowly, and almost gently, became Television South West, in a change that reshaped broadcasting in the south-west of England far more deeply than most viewers ever realised.

Rob looks beyond the headlines to explore boardroom battles, regulatory pressure, bruised egos and the emotional cost of a regional station losing its identity, while also offering personal reflections on why Westward still matters, why its mistakes were painfully human, and why the handover to TSW feels less like a clean break and more like a quiet turning of the page in ITV history.