Yes its permanent!! and not only that the Sunday Omnibus has now gone too as well as the repeat in the mornings. I wrote to ITV1 tonight regarding this and think anyone else who dislikes this rescheduling should do the same, we are the viewers after all: see letter below:
Dear Sir/Madam
I simply do not understand with your new scheduling why you have an Emmerdale Omnibus shown three times over the weekend and only one Coronation Street now moved to Saturday afternoons on ITV1.
In addition to this I see you have cut the showing at 9.25am, fellow nightshift workers like myself would watch this when we got home from work in that time of unwinding before getting some sleep but with the midday scheduling this is now impossible. As we also work a week on and a week off from Saturday to Saturday- the rescheduling of only one Omnibus is also impossible to watch. I realise of course that the programmes are available online but it isn't the same as watching it on the actual television.
I am most disappointed to see that ITV has seen fit to do this and has replaced the morning slot with some American garbage instead- not only that Emmerdale has also been axed from this slot.