Articles about ATV

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Inside ATV’s international hit variety show

Top producer Brian Tesler shortly goes over to Associated TeleVision from the BBC with one of the most tempting contracts ever offered in this country

The ITA gives us a quick look at how ITV is organised in 1966

Independent local radio is on its way, says ATV’s Norman Collins… in 1959

ATV’s first annual report after the 1968 contract changes reveals the ups and downs of the new ITV

Celebrate 3,000 years of Crossroads with our special souvenir website from 1978

The Birmingham Post celebrates the opening of the new ATV Centre in 1970 with a special pull-out supplement, digitised by us for you

H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1974 to find out what was on the telly…

ATV’s new wrestling sitcom ‘The Losers’ gives the TVTimes an excuse to look behind the world of professional wrestling in 1978

A satirical profile of Sir Lew Grade from Barry Took in Punch magazine in 1972

Tony Hancock’s new series for ATV premieres in 1963

Elton John gives an interview to TVTimes to coincide with his appearance on The Muppet Show in 1977

Millions tune in every Saturday to watch the wrestling on ITV in 1962

TVTimes announces ATV’s latest poach from the BBC – a producer named Brian Tesler – in 1957

Ian Ogilvy discusses his fear of fame as he completes a series of the Return of the Saint in 1978

ATV responds to accusation that their programming is too light with a heavy hour of peak-time arts in 1963

The TVTimes in 1967 looks back over 40 years of the Elstree studios

⧉ Bob Monkhouse talks about his history of game shows as he prepares for a series of Celebrity Squares in 1975

⧉ Meet the stars of ATV’s new variety programme in 1976…

⧉ Our brand new subsite, celebrating ATV, the nation’s top entertainment station 1955-1981

A quick profile of Gerry Anderson and the Thunderbirds from 1966

Goodbye to one of the most talented entertainers the UK has ever produced

Who are Britain’s up-and-coming young actors in 1963? The ATV Television Show Book finds out

How Central changed ATV’s drama output

Look-in magazine talks to Joanna Lumley about her exciting new ATV series ‘Sapphire and Steel’ in 1979

Larry Grayson interviews Noele Gordon on ATV in 1972

Bernard Delfont explains how the viewers, not the producers, chose the stars in 1963

A look behind the scenes at ATV’s ‘The Plane Makers’ in 1963

The TVTimes talks to the girls behind the midland admags in 1957

In 1976, producer Bill Ward recalls his time at BBCtv and ATV

A look at what was on ATV on Monday 5 April 1976

The handover from the Alpha Studios in Aston to the new Paradise Centre in Birmingham in 1969

‘The Viewer’ in 1959 explains who Norman Collins was and why he was important to the history of ITV

ATV London starts the day with a rousing march from Eric Coates

What was on ATV Midlands on Thursday 6 July 1972

Shaw Taylor has died

CREATING INDEPENDENT TELEVISION: The ITA picks the players for the new ITV in 1954

Some charming sexism from ATV in 1963: what a PA does at Elstree

Roddy Buxton on the song and dance campaign to save ATV and Elstree studios

Roddy Buxton on the end of ATV and Central’s Birmingham citadel

Roddy Buxton on the history and development of ATV’s Elstree studios

The second part of Roddy Buxton’s analysis sees ATV Network, ATV Midlands, Daybreak and Central at Elstree

Russ J Graham on the ATV Midlands logo design that never was

How a former ABC cinema in Aston, Birmingham, became a power house of ITV production.