Hear hear Pizza...
7 hour flight into a large airport in the Midlands and having to take the ATIS from Heathrow and Manchester and split the difference when it's snowing and right on NPA minimums is no fun.
You only pick up the ATIS on VHF as you are descending through the London TMA, flying with a new trainee who's sometimes 300 miles behind the aircraft.
Surely they could spend some of the money they saved bending the ILS when it rains on a simple D-ATIS.