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Regional News Programmes

Published 4 September 2023

Three different ways of doing news for three different ITV regions

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

ITV in 1988: HTV

Published 23 February 2023

Inside HTV in 1988

A development for HTV

Published 7 March 2022

The Wales and West contractor’s new studios have opened

From the Televault: Harlech accepting the challenge

Published 6 August 2019

Accepting the challenge: Harlech rate themselves after a year on air

Moving mountains

Published 16 July 2018

HTV starts the day in 1973

Tonight’s HTV and Channel 4… in 1990

Published 19 June 2018

A look at what was on HTV in Wales and the West and Channel 4 on Tuesday 19 June 1990

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

Tonight’s HTV and Channel 4… in 1989

Published 28 February 2018

A look at what was on HTV West & Wales and Channel Four on Tuesday 28 February 1989

Tonight’s HTV Wales and West… in 1981

Published 17 January 2018

A look at what was on HTV on Saturday 17 January 1981

Tonight’s HTV and Channel 4… in 1988

Published 13 September 2017

A look at what was on HTV and Channel 4 on Tuesday 13 September 1988

Tonight’s HTV and Channel 4… in 1990

Published 31 May 2017

A look at what was on HTV and C4 on Thursday 31 May 1990

✎ Funny things that happen in television: the ebook

Published 11 April 2017

John Mead’s fun account of a life behind the camera is now available as an ebook

Ron Davies: courageous cameraman

Published 9 March 2017

TVTimes in 1969 profiles Ron Davies – a cameraman for ITN and Harlech who uses a wheelchair

Tonight’s HTV Wales and West… in 1980

Published 5 October 2016

A look at what was on HTV on Sunday 5 October 1980.

Dazzling

Published 8 March 2016

Harlech starts the day one evening in 1968

Tonight’s HTV… in 1989

Published 27 February 2016

A look at what was on HTV on Monday 27 February 1989

Come to an end

Published 26 July 2015

TWW’s last ever programme – in full

One service, two areas, three audiences

Published 12 January 2015

The trials of covering Wales and the west of England

TV’s most boring ident?

Published 20 August 2011

Tyne Tees? HTV? Who has the most boring ident of them all?

Tiptoe through the Startups – 1

Published 2 September 2006

Roddy Buxton looks into the TBS basement files

Memories of ITV

Published 3 September 2005

Richard Wyn Jones grew up with ITV in Wales… and loved every minute of it

Harlech

Published 24 May 2004

The shock of the new

A Call To Arms

Published 1 January 2004

Russ J Graham writes an open letter to the Welsh Assembly

Big Brother’s Bigger Brother

Published 7 October 2003

Russ J Graham on those who have been kicked out of ITV

Into the firing line

Published 18 March 2003

Broadcasters are under the closest scrutiny they have been under in years

Regional Flavours

Published 1 January 2003

Folk medleys defined many aspects of start-up music, says Richard Elen

About Britain

Published 1 January 2003

David Brockman on regional contributions of the ITV network

Regional fun and games

Published 1 January 2002

Carl Ellis’s overlaps ruin a football game

A channel for Wales

Published 1 January 2002

Dafydd Hancock on the twists and turns before S4C

Last Exit

Published 1 January 2002

Richard Jones on Lord Hill vs TWW

Terry Humphries

Published 1 January 2002

Cameraman

Year zero

Published 1 January 2002

Every new ITV company has reinvented the wheel

Teledu comes of age

Published 1 February 2001

Richard Jones celebrates the arrival of S4C

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Liverpool, Friday 8 December 2023