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How the new look will change ITV
Published 22 September 2022
The franchise results are in. What will this mean for ITV in the 1980s?
Start the day the Central way
Published 10 July 2022
Stewart White brings Central Television on the air in 1982 for schools programmes
Celebrity hosts
Published 6 June 2022
All manner of people turn up at Central TV in Birmingham in order to link the children’s programmes
Breakfast with Anna
Published 15 October 2021
The new ITV contracts are announced, to mixed reviews from the Daily Mirror
Auf Wiedersehen, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Published 31 August 2021
Production values have changed… for the better?
Where is Central Television?
Published 5 April 2021
A local newspaper takes issue with the new Central Independent Television in the East Midlands
Shotgun wedding
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
Fast forward into a new century as TV tunes into the digital age
Published 11 June 2018
How Central’s new £15 million television centre in Birmingham uses state-of-the-art technology to put the ‘broad’ in broadcasting in 1996
Tonight’s Central and Channel 4… in 1985
Published 4 May 2017
A look at what was on Central Independent Television and C4 on Saturday 4 May 1985
The Diary of David Heathcote (13)
Published 3 December 2016
David Heathcote tells the story of his life in and out of broadcasting
The Diary of David Heathcote (12)
Published 26 November 2016
David Heathcote tells the story of his life in and out of broadcasting
The Diary of David Heathcote (11)
Published 19 November 2016
David Heathcote tells the story of his life in and out of broadcasting
The Diary of David Heathcote (10)
Published 12 November 2016
David Heathcote tells the story of his life in and out of broadcasting
Goodbye Crossroads
Published 4 April 2016
After 4,510 episodes, Crossroads comes to an end in 1988 with a TVTimes souvenir pull-out.
Central eyes
Published 13 April 2015
The struggles – at company level, in the studios and with politicians – as ATV became Central
Central Appreciation Day
Published 20 March 2015
Did you enjoy the eclipse? Why not enjoy some more?
Central dismembered
Published 17 October 2010
Roddy Buxton on the end of ATV and Central’s Birmingham citadel
This is Elstree, part 2
Published 4 October 2010
The second part of Roddy Buxton’s analysis sees ATV Network, ATV Midlands, Daybreak and Central at Elstree
Nevermind: Central pre-launch logo
Published 4 October 2010
Russ J Graham looks at a ‘what might have been’ for Central Independent Television’s on-screen design
The rise and fall of Lenton Lane
Published 17 August 2010
How Lenton Lane, Central’s studios in Nottingham, went from nothing to something and back to nothing – by someone who was there.
Paradise Lost Part IV – Central House
Published 25 April 2009
Extending the studios as Central launches
Regionally yours
Published 23 October 2008
Joy of Six: ITV regional idents This “top six” list of regional ITV idents controversially puts TSW in the top position ahead of ATV (the heretics); TSW’s second ident in…
A trip to Broad Street
Published 1 March 2007
1997: time for a final trip around ATV Centre before all the gear is sold off.
Evolution
Published 3 September 2005
From 1955 to 2005 by way of changing priorities and consumerism
Seeing double
Published 4 April 2005
ITV faces fine after Central news ’emergency’ Bit of a strange one, this. The director of a late evening Central News East bulletin supposedly had an ’emergency’ to contend with,…
You can’t touch me, I’m part of the union
Published 1 June 2004
Glenn Aylett on industrial relations in broadcasting