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Published 15 June 2022
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
Published 27 September 2021
The ITA gives us a quick look at how ITV is organised in 1966
Published 4 November 2020
Independent local radio is on its way, says ATV’s Norman Collins… in 1959
Published 26 August 2019
ATV’s first annual report after the 1968 contract changes reveals the ups and downs of the new ITV
Published 15 July 2019
Celebrate 3,000 years of Crossroads with our special souvenir website from 1978
Published 3 June 2019
The Birmingham Post celebrates the opening of the new ATV Centre in 1970 with a special pull-out supplement, digitised by us for you
Published 8 May 2019
H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1974 to find out what was on the telly…
Published 11 January 2019
ATV’s new wrestling sitcom ‘The Losers’ gives the TVTimes an excuse to look behind the world of professional wrestling in 1978
Published 5 November 2018
A satirical profile of Sir Lew Grade from Barry Took in Punch magazine in 1972
Published 22 June 2018
Elton John gives an interview to TVTimes to coincide with his appearance on The Muppet Show in 1977
Published 26 May 2018
Millions tune in every Saturday to watch the wrestling on ITV in 1962
Published 25 May 2018
TVTimes announces ATV’s latest poach from the BBC – a producer named Brian Tesler – in 1957
Published 4 May 2018
Ian Ogilvy discusses his fear of fame as he completes a series of the Return of the Saint in 1978
Published 13 April 2018
ATV responds to accusation that their programming is too light with a heavy hour of peak-time arts in 1963
Published 5 March 2018
The TVTimes in 1967 looks back over 40 years of the Elstree studios
Published 22 February 2018
⧉ Bob Monkhouse talks about his history of game shows as he prepares for a series of Celebrity Squares in 1975
Published 18 January 2018
⧉ Meet the stars of ATV’s new variety programme in 1976…
Published 25 December 2017
⧉ Our brand new subsite, celebrating ATV, the nation’s top entertainment station 1955-1981
Published 17 October 2017
A quick profile of Gerry Anderson and the Thunderbirds from 1966
Published 18 August 2017
Goodbye to one of the most talented entertainers the UK has ever produced
Published 13 June 2017
Who are Britain’s up-and-coming young actors in 1963? The ATV Television Show Book finds out
Published 16 May 2017
Look-in magazine talks to Joanna Lumley about her exciting new ATV series ‘Sapphire and Steel’ in 1979
Published 13 February 2017
Bernard Delfont explains how the viewers, not the producers, chose the stars in 1963
Published 13 October 2016
A look behind the scenes at ATV’s ‘The Plane Makers’ in 1963
Published 20 June 2016
The TVTimes talks to the girls behind the midland admags in 1957
Published 10 May 2016
In 1976, producer Bill Ward recalls his time at BBCtv and ATV
Published 29 March 2016
The handover from the Alpha Studios in Aston to the new Paradise Centre in Birmingham in 1969
Published 16 March 2016
‘The Viewer’ in 1959 explains who Norman Collins was and why he was important to the history of ITV
Published 12 October 2015
ATV London starts the day with a rousing march from Eric Coates
Published 5 January 2015
CREATING INDEPENDENT TELEVISION: The ITA picks the players for the new ITV in 1954
Published 25 August 2014
Some charming sexism from ATV in 1963: what a PA does at Elstree
Published 17 October 2010
Roddy Buxton on the song and dance campaign to save ATV and Elstree studios
Published 17 October 2010
Roddy Buxton on the end of ATV and Central’s Birmingham citadel
Published 4 October 2010
Roddy Buxton on the history and development of ATV’s Elstree studios
Published 4 October 2010
The second part of Roddy Buxton’s analysis sees ATV Network, ATV Midlands, Daybreak and Central at Elstree
Published 4 October 2010
Russ J Graham on the ATV Midlands logo design that never was
Published 15 August 2010
How a former ABC cinema in Aston, Birmingham, became a power house of ITV production.