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Published 22 September 2023
ITV is two years old today. The managing directors celebrate, as does Associated-Rediffusion
Published 17 August 2023
Interviewer, presenter and journalist Michael Parkinson has died
Published 21 July 2023
What’s on ITV tonight? There was once over a dozen answers to this question
Published 4 May 2023
How Granada and ABC will be handling the 1959 general election
Published 25 April 2023
Edward R Murrow comes back to Britain for Granada
Published 7 April 2023
How a by-election in Lancashire made all elections TV elections
Published 27 January 2023
The technical side to getting television to your home… and to the transmitter
Published 3 November 2022
Examining Granada’s 13-part series looking at Television
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
Published 14 February 2022
A gallop through how ITV got to opening day and what’s next for the new network
Published 26 December 2021
Part Five: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television
Published 25 December 2021
Part Three: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television
Published 21 December 2021
A sitcom that captured an era perfectly
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 28 October 2021
From the North, variety and stand-up comedy
Published 27 September 2021
The ITA gives us a quick look at how ITV is organised in 1966
Published 22 September 2021
Behind the scenes of that new ‘Independent Television’ you’ve heard so much about
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
Published 7 June 2021
Competition or cooperation? In May 1956 it’s still not clear which will be ITV’s main thrust
Published 15 March 2021
Want to look around Granada’s studios in 1960? Paul Rycroft will show you the sights
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
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
Published 25 January 2021
The trials and tribulations of getting the people to the places for Granada’s nightly magazine show
Published 9 December 2020
A scoop on the announcements of the first ITV franchises in 1954: Granada is to get the Midlands
Published 7 December 2020
1958 approaches… has the corner turned for ITV?
Published 7 October 2020
Making television isn’t easy or quick, Granada tells the Heywood Round Table
Published 25 April 2020
Six more articles to read to keep your mind alert during the lockdown
Published 20 March 2020
Pete Singleton travels back to 1958 to find out what was making waves in television
Published 7 November 2019
A personal retrospective of Ireland’s greatest broadcaster
Published 4 July 2019
The Liverpool Echo reviews Granada’s first night on air in 1956… and finds that the picture is terrible
Published 31 March 2019
Travel back to this day in 1966 to find out what’s on Granada
Published 27 August 2018
Granada tries to find its place in the new, post-1968 ITV world
Published 9 August 2018
An introduction to Independent Television in 1966
Published 29 July 2018
Programmes coming this week in July 1968 from all of the New ITV that you can see on Yorkshire
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
Published 7 July 2018
Introducing the bizarre world of Granada TV’s ‘Nice Time’ in 1968
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 30 May 2018
A look at what was on Granada in the north on Whit Monday 30 May 1966
Published 24 March 2018
HE Cooper takes a time machine back to 1960 for a look at what was on the telly
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
Published 2 October 2011
Remembering John Mead: the memoirs of the late actor, announcer, producer and director John Mead reach the Granada days