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How time flies by for the night owls

Published 21 December 2023

As Morning News goes network, David Cass’s piece on the night service definitely won’t send you to sleep

‘Uncle Red’ would like a hit pop

Published 18 December 2023

The Rediffusion announcer ‘writes’ music by humming it into a microphone

Regional News Programmes

Published 4 September 2023

Three different ways of doing news for three different ITV regions

All set for Saturday..?

Published 25 August 2023

Scottish Television will be starting soon. Are you ready?

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

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

Backroom poise keeps the news team ahead

Published 17 July 2023

A day in the life of Peter Sissons and the Channel Four News team

How did they move the news?

Published 19 June 2023

ITN moves house in 1991

The easy-chair election

Published 4 May 2023

How Granada and ABC will be handling the 1959 general election

David Cass

Published 27 February 2023

Journalist and newscaster David Cass talks about life at ITN

TV Wizardry – In and Out of the Studios

Published 6 February 2023

New technology sweeps ITV, with ENG, computer editing and ½-inch tape at the fore

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

Going underground

Published 4 April 2022

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

ITN’s building plans in mint condition

Published 10 January 2022

Work is well underway on a building to replace ITN House on Wells Street in London

Telstar

Published 7 January 2022

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

ITN launches its early-morning news service

Published 13 December 2021

A new programme and a new role for ITN as breakfast television launches on Channel 4

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

Annual report 1969

Published 1 September 2021

1968 was a busy year for ATV Network, as this excerpt from their annual report for 1969 reveals

Brearley opens, but Chataway’s in the running

Published 19 July 2021

Who’s promising what in the race to be Britain’s first breakfast TV contractor?

‘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

Back in time for TV: 1989

Published 21 December 2020

For the last time in the present series, H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1989 to find out what was on the telly…

Technical operations: the ITV network

Published 14 August 2020

The not-so-simple process of getting the output of the cameras to your TV screen in 1967

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

ITN reaches for the stars

Published 20 July 2019

More people chose to watch ITN’s coverage of the moon landings than the BBC’s.

News at 9.00 – news at 10.00?

Published 7 May 2019

Barry Norman in The Times criticises News at Ten in 1971. Thames bites back immediately

Bringing you the latest news…

Published 1 April 2019

Something we just found from ITN, and it’s amazing

Tonight’s Granada TV… in 1966

Published 31 March 2019

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

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

Breakfast TV: Snap, Crackle or Flop?

Published 25 June 2018

Will TV-am be a success? Peter Jay says yes. Others tell the Sunday Express Magazine in 1981 that it’s a disaster in the making

The BIG news – from ITN

Published 26 February 2018

Introducing the new News at Ten in 1967

Calling ALL Europe

Published 29 January 2018

How the news gets from Europe to your TV screen in 1967

Bringing the NEWS to you

Published 12 January 2018

⧉ Find out how ITN brought the news to us over on our 1960s culture site, my1960s.com

Huw Thomas, Newscaster

Published 21 November 2017

Meet ITN’s newest newscaster in 1957

The Nation Decides

Published 8 June 2017

TVTimes tells us what to expect from ITN’s coverage of the 1979 general election

Ron Davies: courageous cameraman

Published 9 March 2017

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

Meet the new man in the news

Published 19 January 2017

The TVTimes introduces Gordon Honeycombe, a new ITN newsreader in 1965

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

Robin Day in orbit

Published 17 October 2016

In an excerpt from his autobiography, Sir Robin Day recounts the moment he became famous

Tomorrow’s News Tonight

Published 11 February 2016

Introducing viewers in the North-East to their new news service in 1959

Andrew Gardner in his own words

Published 15 October 2015

TVWorld magazine gives ITN newscaster Andrew Gardner four pages to describe his life in 1965

ITN faces

Published 27 August 2015

Some famous ITN faces of the 1960s

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