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Second Birthday

Published 22 September 2023

ITV is two years old today. The managing directors celebrate, as does Associated-Rediffusion

Michael Parkinson (1935-2023)

Published 17 August 2023

Interviewer, presenter and journalist Michael Parkinson has died

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

T.V. Plans

Published 2 June 2023

What’s coming up for television and radio beyond 1957?

The Authority’s Stations: The North

Published 18 May 2023

ITV transmitters in 1962: Northern region

The easy-chair election

Published 4 May 2023

How Granada and ABC will be handling the 1959 general election

Turning the tables on Ed Murrow

Published 25 April 2023

Edward R Murrow comes back to Britain for Granada

Granada goes to Rochdale

Published 7 April 2023

How a by-election in Lancashire made all elections TV elections

Did you see… 1963

Published 11 March 2023

The pick of the day’s television today in 1963

Technical operations

Published 27 January 2023

The technical side to getting television to your home… and to the transmitter

The history of television

Published 3 November 2022

Examining Granada’s 13-part series looking at Television

This is THE NORTH: Here Are My Plans

Published 21 February 2022

The man with a plan: Sidney Bernstein discusses what he wants to do with the North on the opening of Granada TV Network

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 future of television: What next?

Published 26 December 2021

Part Five: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television

The future of television: Who owns television?

Published 25 December 2021

Part Three: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television

Another chance to see… The Grimleys

Published 21 December 2021

A sitcom that captured an era perfectly

Announcing Ray Moore

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

Another chance to see… The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club

Published 28 October 2021

From the North, variety and stand-up comedy

ITV: the Programmes and the Companies

Published 27 September 2021

The ITA gives us a quick look at how ITV is organised in 1966

The Story of Independent TV

Published 22 September 2021

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

Pops and pirates

Published 23 July 2021

Granada’s World in Action looks at the victims of the off-shore radio boom: the recording artists who drove it

In association with…

Published 7 June 2021

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

Poise in a topsy-turvy world

Published 15 March 2021

Want to look around Granada’s studios in 1960? Paul Rycroft will show you the sights

Into the fifth year

Published 5 March 2021

It’s 1960 and Granada and ABC look back at the last 4 years on air and what’s coming for ITV

Lucifer throws light on TV electioneering

Published 1 February 2021

Will television have an effect on voters at election time? Leeds University plan to find out, using an ‘electronic brain’ in 1959

Getting people and places together

Published 25 January 2021

The trials and tribulations of getting the people to the places for Granada’s nightly magazine show

Choice to-day of commercial TV companies

Published 9 December 2020

A scoop on the announcements of the first ITV franchises in 1954: Granada is to get the Midlands

The Year in Commercial Television

Published 7 December 2020

1958 approaches… has the corner turned for ITV?

Seen at 6.30

Published 4 December 2020

Inside Granada’s greatest regional programme, Scene at 6.30

Granada TV chief on production problems

Published 7 October 2020

Making television isn’t easy or quick, Granada tells the Heywood Round Table

Lockdown 6-pack II

Published 25 April 2020

Six more articles to read to keep your mind alert during the lockdown

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

Gay Byrne 1934–2019

Published 7 November 2019

A personal retrospective of Ireland’s greatest broadcaster

How ITV Was Received on Merseyside

Published 4 July 2019

The Liverpool Echo reviews Granada’s first night on air in 1956… and finds that the picture is terrible

Tonight’s Granada TV… in 1966

Published 31 March 2019

Travel back to this day in 1966 to find out what’s on Granada

North by Northwest

Published 27 August 2018

Granada tries to find its place in the new, post-1968 ITV world

Factsheet 1966: The Independent Television Authority

Published 9 August 2018

An introduction to Independent Television in 1966

Yorkshire Television presents…

Published 29 July 2018

Programmes coming this week in July 1968 from all of the New ITV that you can see on Yorkshire

Back in time for TV: January 1968

Published 15 July 2018

HE Cooper takes a time machine back to 15-21 January 1968 for a look at what was on the telly

Come on – let yourself go

Published 7 July 2018

Introducing the bizarre world of Granada TV’s ‘Nice Time’ in 1968

Back in time for TV: 1967

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

Tonight’s Granada TV… in 1966

Published 30 May 2018

A look at what was on Granada in the north on Whit Monday 30 May 1966

Back in time for TV: 1960

Published 24 March 2018

HE Cooper takes a time machine back to 1960 for a look at what was on the telly

Back in time for TV: 18-24 February 1960

Published 24 March 2018

HE Cooper takes a time machine back to 18-24 February 1960 for a look at what was on the telly

John Mead: Part II – Granadaland

Published 2 October 2011

Remembering John Mead: the memoirs of the late actor, announcer, producer and director John Mead reach the Granada days

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