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Published 21 July 2023
What’s on ITV tonight? There was once over a dozen answers to this question
Published 27 June 2023
Newspaper reports about the sighting of a strange white sphere over the Midlands in December 1981
Published 16 May 2023
From the department of making the most of a bad job
Published 11 May 2023
ITV transmitters in 1962: Midlands region
Published 25 December 2022
Our Christmas present to you: celebrate 500 episodes of the medical drama with our new microsite
Published 14 February 2022
A gallop through how ITV got to opening day and what’s next for the new network
Published 12 November 2021
Ray Moore gets a job at Granada, and at Tyne Tees, parlays that into a job at ATV and then makes the jump to the BBC
Published 15 October 2021
The new ITV contracts are announced, to mixed reviews from the Daily Mirror
Published 22 September 2021
Behind the scenes of that new ‘Independent Television’ you’ve heard so much about
Published 1 September 2021
1968 was a busy year for ATV Network, as this excerpt from their annual report for 1969 reveals
Published 7 June 2021
Competition or cooperation? In May 1956 it’s still not clear which will be ITV’s main thrust
Published 10 May 2021
A twisty tale of how to get two- and three-way networking established for ITV in the 1950s
Published 13 January 2021
A change in policy at A-R and ATV as they bring their announcers into view
Published 24 December 2020
Over on our ATV site, meet the three announcers who will be working over Christmas in 1974
Published 12 November 2020
Blair Thomson surveys the prospects of ATV-viewing after the 1968 regional reorganisation
Published 16 October 2020
Over on our site about Alpha, the joint studios of ABC and ATV in Birmingham, it’s launch night for ITV in the Midlands
Published 20 July 2020
The future of black-and-white is here: subjective colour
Published 20 March 2020
Pete Singleton travels back to 1958 to find out what was making waves in television
Published 26 August 2019
ATV’s first annual report after the 1968 contract changes reveals the ups and downs of the new ITV
Published 22 July 2019
ATV comes to the Midlands in 1956, with the Birmingham Post waiting to welcome them
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 2 November 2018
The TVTimes celebrates 3,000 years of ‘Crossroads’ in 1978 in a – frankly bonkers and baffling – celebratory article ‘written’ by ‘Meg Mortimer’
Published 24 September 2018
One of the longest-serving ATV directors has died
Published 23 July 2018
The Daily Mirror reports on the decisions taken by the ITA in the ITV franchise round of 1967
Published 6 July 2018
Meet the woman who sells dresses by day and reads the local ATV news by night in 1956
Published 30 June 2018
HE Cooper takes a time machine back to 18-25 May 1967 for a look at what was on the telly
Published 18 June 2018
Has the IBA managed to bring peace to the Westward board room? And even if so, will they force Westward to merge with a rival bidder? Peter Fiddick of The Guardian speculates in October 1980
Published 16 May 2018
A look at what was on Associated TeleVision in the Midlands on Friday 16 May 1958
Published 9 May 2018
A look at what was on ATV from Birmingham on Thursday 9 May 1968
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
Published 19 April 2018
Meet ATV’s Shaw Taylor, former actor, continuity announcer and now host of ‘Pencil and Paper’ in 1962
Published 7 April 2018
HE Cooper takes a time machine back to 1961 for a look at what was on the telly
Published 7 April 2018
HE Cooper takes a time machine back to 4-10 March for a look at what was on the telly
Published 20 March 2018
⧉ The TVTimes welcomes the second series of ATV’s ‘Seeing Sport’ in 1957
Published 27 February 2018
⧉ How do you differentiate your two-day ITV company against a five-day behemoth?
Published 31 January 2018
A look at what was on ATV in Birmingham on Friday 31 January 1958
Published 23 January 2018
⧉ Noele Gordon learns to fly for an ATV Midlands series
Published 25 December 2017
⧉ Our brand new subsite, celebrating ATV, the nation’s top entertainment station 1955-1981
Published 22 September 2017
⧉ To celebrate 18 years of Transdiffusion on the web, we present a look behind the scenes at Alpha, ABC and ATV’s studios in Birmingham
Published 21 June 2017
A look at what was on ATV on Thursday 21 June 1956