Articles about ATV London

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

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

The most famous variety show in the country

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One of the longest-serving ATV directors has died

A personal look back at 1964 from David Heathcote

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A limited budget sends Bernard Braden rummaging through wardrobe in 1963

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

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

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

Jack Parnell and Bob Sharples in action

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

What was on ITV on Thursday 22 September 1955

A look at what was on television on 17 June 1967

What was on ATV London on Sunday 20 May 1956

What was on ATV on Christmas Day 1955

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

What was on ATV London on Sunday 27 November 1955

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

The beginning of ITV – in sound & vision

One of the most radical changes to hit the ITV network

The London Television Consortium had a hard lesson to learn

The ultimate rite of passage

Bold as brass

The shadowed eye

The forgotten ATV

David Brockman watches the fall, rise and fall of LWT

Kif Bowden-Smith watches Rediffusion add respectability to ITV.