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The easy-chair election
Published 4 May 2023
How Granada and ABC will be handling the 1959 general election
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?
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
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
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
Sir Christopher Chataway 1931-2014
Published 19 January 2014
BLOG: Sir Christopher Chataway has died. Read our 2005 interview with him.
Sir Christopher Chataway Part 2: ITN wins its spurs
Published 2 October 2005
How ITN rewrote the rulebook for television news
Howard Thomas Part 6: The ITA
Published 2 September 2005
By the time ABC arrived, many decisions had been made. Howard wanted them changed.
Sir Christopher Chataway Part 1: First with the news
Published 1 September 2005
Following the sad news about Sir Christopher Chataway, we republish this 2005 interview with him remembering ITN’s opening night