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Published 7 September 2020
Will Border Television go to the wall due to the ITV levy and the costs of introducing colour?
Published 3 August 2020
Get ready for ITV in this interview from 1989 with the designers of the new look
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
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
Published 20 May 2019
Colour… UHF… 625… Duplication… What the viewer needs to know in 1969
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
Published 22 April 2019
The Independent Broadcasting Authority explains who does what in ITV in this booklet from 1973
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
Published 11 October 2018
A look at what was on across ITV on Friday 11 October 1974
Published 3 October 2018
A look at what was on ITV for children this week in 1974
Published 8 April 2018
Our new microsite takes a snapshot of ITV as it stood in the middle of 1959
Published 15 January 2018
The Independent Television Authority hits back at critics of ITV in 1958
Published 16 October 2017
On 22 September 1975, Eamonn Andrews on the Thames ‘Today’ programme hosts a bad-tempered debate about ITV
Published 22 September 2017
Australia reacts to the launch of Britain’s commercial television
Published 12 June 2017
Colour comes to ITV, courtesy of tests done by ITA chief engineer Howard Steele
Published 1 April 2017
Exciting new developments today here at Transdiffusion
Published 19 December 2016
Sorry, no, it didn’t happen, no matter how much you wanted it to.
Published 17 October 2016
Colm O’Rourke watches the end of one era and the start of another
Published 22 September 2016
How The Age reacted to the birth of ITV
Published 22 September 2016
How the Ottawa Citizen reacted to the birth of ITV
Published 22 September 2016
How the Glasgow newspapers reacted to the birth of ITV
Published 22 September 2016
How the Daytona Beach Morning Journal reacted to the birth of ITV
Published 5 May 2016
The Central Electricity Generating Board on how what we watch affects their work in 1962
Published 21 January 2016
The intertwined worlds of The Beatles and 1960s ITV
Published 2 December 2015
ITV offers a look into Ev’s strange world
Published 25 October 2015
The TVTimes celebrates the return of ITV after the long 1979 strike
Published 10 October 2015
A look at what was on Independent Television on 10 October 1974 – election day
Published 7 September 2015
What to do when the network goes down and you have to improvise
Published 16 February 2015
The huge profits of ITV weren’t a myth – but they also weren’t true for everyone.
Published 5 January 2015
CREATING INDEPENDENT TELEVISION: The ITA picks the players for the new ITV in 1954
Published 28 December 2014
The Observer in 1980 has an exclusive on what would happen in the next franchise round
Published 19 February 2013
BLOG: There can only be a few people who can be counted as true television personalities, in front of the camera are the presenters and behind them are the production staff. Very rarely there are people who do both at the same time such as Jack Hargreaves from Southern Television and Brian Connell from Anglia, one such of these unique breed died on Sunday.
Published 18 January 2013
BLOG: All change for ITV in 2013. Is it all worth it?
Published 26 May 2012
BLOG: Remember a few years ago when ITV plc decided that 17 regional news programmes was unsustainable and that to make commercial sense they should only have nine in England and Wales? Well that was in 2009. Now it’s 2012 and it seems ITV have had a change of heart.
Published 13 September 2011
BLOG: It’s been the way it has been for so long that we just accept it. However I can’t be the only one who finds the fact that at 6pm ITV1 shows the national news after the regional news?
Published 20 August 2011
Tyne Tees? HTV? Who has the most boring ident of them all?