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Regional News Programmes

Published 4 September 2023

Three different ways of doing news for three different ITV regions

Flying in the news with the IBA ‘bird’

Published 31 July 2023

Instantaneous live OBs from anywhere in Europe? With the Orbital Test Satellite, it could be coming soon

David Cass

Published 27 February 2023

Journalist and newscaster David Cass talks about life at ITN

The ITA so far

Published 22 September 2022

You probably can’t get the newly launched commercial television yet, but here’s how it works

Here is the NEWS – I T A Style

Published 22 August 2022

After a month of ITN’s news service, the rest of country can’t wait for the new news

The ‘Emmy’ winner who sent Robin Day to cover sport and made the Minister stop traffic!

Published 11 July 2022

A profile of a man who worked at Ally Pally, ITN, Anglia, Tyne Tees and Oracle – Arthur Clifford

Focus on a crisis

Published 2 May 2022

ITN is called into action when a siege at an embassy in London comes to a shocking end

Going underground

Published 4 April 2022

A trip to the ITN archives – deep under Goodge Street in London

Telstar

Published 7 January 2022

The future is here: television across the Atlantic thanks to a satellite

Behind the news

Published 26 November 2021

Behind the scenes as the news gets to Television House and from there to your home

The Story of Independent TV

Published 22 September 2021

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

To the North

Published 10 May 2021

A twisty tale of how to get two- and three-way networking established for ITV in the 1950s

‘Reggie’

Published 10 February 2021

ITN staff remember Reginald Bosanquet after his death in 1984

When Huw was told: ‘You looked just like a frightened rabbit’

Published 11 January 2021

ITN’s house magazine The Lens looks back from 1983 at Huw Thomas’s on-air career

Factsheet 1966: Taste, Accuracy, Impartiality in ITV Programmes

Published 13 September 2018

An introduction to content regulation on ITV in 1966

Factsheet 1966: The Independent Television Authority

Published 9 August 2018

An introduction to Independent Television in 1966

ITN: The facts behind the news

Published 1 August 2017

A quick guide to ITN in 1963

Year One: Television and visual journalism

Published 28 March 2017

Our series on the first year of Granada features Randolph Churchill discussing Granada’s journalism

Battle for News at Ten

Published 19 December 2016

The chairman of the ITA details the fight to get ITN’s News at Ten to air on ITV

Politics will soon come in out of the cold

Published 6 June 2016

April 1976 and ITN finally gets the Westminster studio the correspondents have been wanting since 1955

ITN faces

Published 27 August 2015

Some famous ITN faces of the 1960s

A member of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
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