Articles about ATV Midlands

The pick of the day’s television today in 1980

Our Christmas present to you: celebrate 500 episodes of the medical drama with our new microsite

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

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

The new ITV contracts are announced, to mixed reviews from the Daily Mirror

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

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

The hottest thing in holiday advertising!

Competition or cooperation? In May 1956 it’s still not clear which will be ITV’s main thrust

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

Over on our ATV site, meet the three announcers who will be working over Christmas in 1974

Blair Thomson surveys the prospects of ATV-viewing after the 1968 regional reorganisation

Over on our site about Alpha, the joint studios of ABC and ATV in Birmingham, it’s launch night for ITV in the Midlands

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

ATV comes to the Midlands in 1956, with the Birmingham Post waiting to welcome them

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

The TVTimes celebrates 3,000 years of ‘Crossroads’ in 1978 in a – frankly bonkers and baffling – celebratory article ‘written’ by ‘Meg Mortimer’

One of the longest-serving ATV directors has died

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

Meet the woman who sells dresses by day and reads the local ATV news by night in 1956

HE Cooper takes a time machine back to 18-25 May 1967 for a look at what was on the telly

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

A look at what was on Associated TeleVision in the Midlands on Friday 16 May 1958

A look at what was on ATV from Birmingham on Thursday 9 May 1968

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

Meet ATV’s Shaw Taylor, former actor, continuity announcer and now host of ‘Pencil and Paper’ in 1962

HE Cooper takes a time machine back to 1961 for a look at what was on the telly

HE Cooper takes a time machine back to 4-10 March for a look at what was on the telly

⧉ The TVTimes welcomes the second series of ATV’s ‘Seeing Sport’ in 1957

⧉ How do you differentiate your two-day ITV company against a five-day behemoth?

A look at what was on ATV in Birmingham on Friday 31 January 1958

⧉ Noele Gordon learns to fly for an ATV Midlands series

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

⧉ 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

A look at what was on ATV on Thursday 21 June 1956

A look at what was on ATV on Thursday 14 June 1962

A look at what was on Associated TeleVision on Thursday 24 May 1956

A look at what was on ATV in the Midlands on Friday 12 April 1957

Inside ATV’s Postbag in 1963

Jerry Allen talks about appearing on 1,600 editions of ATV’s ‘Lunch Box’ in 1963

The pick of your holiday viewing in 1964 from your ATV and ABC announcers