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Another chance to see… regional ITV

Published 21 July 2023

What’s on ITV tonight? There was once over a dozen answers to this question

The Authority’s Stations: London

Published 5 May 2023

ITV transmitters in 1962: London region

Did you see… 1956

Published 22 April 2023

The pick of the day’s television today in 1956

INDEPENDENT TELEVISION: Present and Future Policy on Development

Published 14 February 2022

A gallop through how ITV got to opening day and what’s next for the new network

The Story of Independent TV

Published 22 September 2021

Behind the scenes of that new ‘Independent Television’ you’ve heard so much about

Another chance to see… Sunday Night at the London Palladium

Published 16 September 2021

The most famous variety show in the country

Annual report 1969

Published 1 September 2021

1968 was a busy year for ATV Network, as this excerpt from their annual report for 1969 reveals

To the North

Published 10 May 2021

A twisty tale of how to get two- and three-way networking established for ITV in the 1950s

ITV puts its announcers in the picture

Published 13 January 2021

A change in policy at A-R and ATV as they bring their announcers into view

‘Flutter Colour’ TV in Birmingham

Published 20 July 2020

The future of black-and-white is here: subjective colour

A Superb Souvenir of the Year’s Television

Published 20 March 2020

Pete Singleton travels back to 1958 to find out what was making waves in television

The results are in

Published 26 August 2019

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

‘Air hostesses’ – new style

Published 17 October 2018

Meet Muriel Young and Daphne Anderson, announcers for Associated-Rediffusion and ABC (aka ATV) in 1955

Shaun O’Riordan 1927-2018

Published 24 September 2018

One of the longest-serving ATV directors has died

1964 and all that

Published 6 September 2018

A personal look back at 1964 from David Heathcote

Val Parnell – Paladin of the Palladium

Published 17 August 2018

TVTimes interviews the man behind Sunday Night at the London Palladium in 1956

Tonight’s ATV London… in 1968

Published 28 July 2018

A look at what was on ATV in London on Sunday 28 July 1968

Frost joins tycoons in shock ITV shake-up

Published 23 July 2018

The Daily Mirror reports on the decisions taken by the ITA in the ITV franchise round of 1967

On the dot with that spot

Published 8 June 2018

Routine sheets get the ads to the viewer with split-second timing in 1957

Back in time for TV: 1962

Published 21 April 2018

HE Cooper takes a time machine back to 18-24 March 1962 for a look at what was on the telly

Tonight’s ATV London… in 1965

Published 3 January 2018

A look at what was on ATV in London on Sunday 3 January 1965

AYTEEVEE – the entertainment network 1955-1981

Published 25 December 2017

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

My hundred faces

Published 23 February 2017

A limited budget sends Bernard Braden rummaging through wardrobe in 1963

✎ Crushing your hopes at Christmas

Published 19 December 2016

Sorry, no, it didn’t happen, no matter how much you wanted it to.

► Exit ATV, pursued by LWT

Published 1 December 2016

Audio of David Frost introducing the new London Weekend before Trevor Lucas takes ATV London off air for the final ever time

Faith – and 7,000,000 viewers

Published 15 September 2016

The TVTimes in 1961 looks at the men behind the two most popular religious programmes on ITV – ‘The Sunday Break’ and ‘About Religion’

The men who make music go round

Published 13 April 2016

Jack Parnell and Bob Sharples in action

Tonight’s ATV London… in 1964

Published 28 November 2015

A look at what was on ATV in London on Saturday 28 November 1964

Tonight’s ITV… in 1955

Published 22 September 2015

What was on ITV on Thursday 22 September 1955

Tonight’s TV… in 1967

Published 17 June 2015

A look at what was on television on 17 June 1967

Tonight’s ATV London… in 1956

Published 20 May 2015

What was on ATV London on Sunday 20 May 1956

Tonight’s ATV… in 1955

Published 25 December 2014

What was on ATV on Christmas Day 1955

Hello and goodbye

Published 8 December 2014

ABC, ATV London and Rediffusion bow out; Thames, LWT and Yorkshire come in

Tonight’s ATV… in 1955

Published 27 November 2014

What was on ATV London on Sunday 27 November 1955

Battle of the Alphas

Published 1 February 2007

British and US film series were a treat for 60s viewers

The Launch of ITV

Published 25 November 2006

The beginning of ITV – in sound & vision

London ITA 1968

Published 24 November 2006

One of the most radical changes to hit the ITV network

LWT as BBC3

Published 1 February 2006

The London Television Consortium had a hard lesson to learn

Howard Thomas Part 7: Lew Grade

Published 2 October 2005

The ultimate rite of passage

ATV

Published 24 May 2004

Bold as brass

Indepth on ATV Network

Published 24 May 2004

The shadowed eye

ATV London

Published 1 January 2004

The forgotten ATV

Watching London

Published 1 November 2002

David Brockman watches the fall, rise and fall of LWT

Getting it right

Published 1 September 2001

Kif Bowden-Smith watches Rediffusion add respectability to ITV.

A member of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
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