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Welcome to the exciting world of ONdigital
Published 18 February 2022
Welcome to the future and your new ONdigital digibox
Who does what in ITV
Published 19 November 2021
The Independent Broadcasting Authority explains who does what in ITV
No Damage So Far, But We Must Learn to Live with Commercial Television
Published 25 October 2021
ITV is here. Will it kill the cinema?
Slick – that is the new TV
Published 12 April 2021
It’s launch day for ITV in London, but there’s a fire in the stables in Ambridge…
ITV puts its announcers in the picture
Published 13 January 2021
A change in policy at A-R and ATV as they bring their announcers into view
The Great TV War: a TV ‘Light’ could save the BBC
Published 5 January 2021
BBCtv is dying in 1958 and here’s how to save it
Wales TV will not disappoint viewers
Published 2 December 2020
It’s the first of three opening days for the new Wales (West & North) Television
ITV’s Regional Strength
Published 9 October 2020
What makes ITV worth watching is regional programmes from your local station, says the IBA in 1976
Ship’s siren may be call sign for TTT
Published 30 September 2020
Big promises from Tyne Tees Television in 1958 as they get ready to launch
Crisis facing Border TV
Published 7 September 2020
Will Border Television go to the wall due to the ITV levy and the costs of introducing colour?
The symbols of success
Published 3 August 2020
Get ready for ITV in this interview from 1989 with the designers of the new look
Why ITV is pulling out all the plugs
Published 24 June 2019
It’s almost S-night! With ITV about to convert from 405 to 625, the technology correspondent of the Sunday Times looks into what’s involved
A rationalised ITV structure
Published 27 May 2019
The Daily Telegraph has a plan for ITV in 1971: tear it up and start again. It’s nonsense and we’ll tell you why
ITA Colour is coming!
Published 20 May 2019
Colour… UHF… 625… Duplication… What the viewer needs to know in 1969
Can TV’s ‘lost weekend’ be brought to life?
Published 13 May 2019
The leading television critics from the broadsheet newspapers gather in July 1968 to discuss what ITV should look like on weekends when the contracts change
Who does what in ITV?
Published 22 April 2019
The Independent Broadcasting Authority explains who does what in ITV in this booklet from 1973
‘ITV was the start of the Coca-colonisation of Britain’
Published 29 October 2018
In 1980, Jack Tinker, theatre critic of the Daily Mail, turns his unsympathetic eye to the launch of ITV in 1955
Tonight’s ITV… in 1974
Published 11 October 2018
A look at what was on across ITV on Friday 11 October 1974
This week’s ITV children’s programmes… in 1974
Published 3 October 2018
A look at what was on ITV for children this week in 1974
Independent Television in 1959
Published 8 April 2018
Our new microsite takes a snapshot of ITV as it stood in the middle of 1959
This is Independent Television
Published 15 January 2018
The Independent Television Authority hits back at critics of ITV in 1958
► Twist and shouting
Published 16 October 2017
On 22 September 1975, Eamonn Andrews on the Thames ‘Today’ programme hosts a bad-tempered debate about ITV
New British TV: Show business is booming
Published 22 September 2017
Australia reacts to the launch of Britain’s commercial television
How ITV set the pace in colour
Published 12 June 2017
Colour comes to ITV, courtesy of tests done by ITA chief engineer Howard Steele
✎ Transdiffusion joins ITV
Published 1 April 2017
Exciting new developments today here at Transdiffusion
✎ Crushing your hopes at Christmas
Published 19 December 2016
Sorry, no, it didn’t happen, no matter how much you wanted it to.
Thank U and Goodnight
Published 17 October 2016
Colm O’Rourke watches the end of one era and the start of another
ITV 1955: The view from Australia
Published 22 September 2016
How The Age reacted to the birth of ITV
ITV 1955: The view from Canada
Published 22 September 2016
How the Ottawa Citizen reacted to the birth of ITV