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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
ITV 1955: The view from Scotland
Published 22 September 2016
How the Glasgow newspapers reacted to the birth of ITV
ITV 1955: The view from America
Published 22 September 2016
How the Daytona Beach Morning Journal reacted to the birth of ITV
The power of TV
Published 5 May 2016
The Central Electricity Generating Board on how what we watch affects their work in 1962
The Fab Four meet the Big Four
Published 21 January 2016
The intertwined worlds of The Beatles and 1960s ITV
The World According to Kenny Everett
Published 2 December 2015
ITV offers a look into Ev’s strange world
Welcome home to TVTimes
Published 25 October 2015
The TVTimes celebrates the return of ITV after the long 1979 strike
Tonight’s ITV… in 1974
Published 10 October 2015
A look at what was on Independent Television on 10 October 1974 – election day
Strike Service
Published 7 September 2015
What to do when the network goes down and you have to improvise
Bottom line
Published 16 February 2015
The huge profits of ITV weren’t a myth – but they also weren’t true for everyone.
Choosing the companies
Published 5 January 2015
CREATING INDEPENDENT TELEVISION: The ITA picks the players for the new ITV in 1954
Stirred but not shaken
Published 28 December 2014
The Observer in 1980 has an exclusive on what would happen in the next franchise round
Be Nice to Each Other
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.
A Tale of 5 Channels: ITV’s 2013 Rebrand
Published 18 January 2013
BLOG: All change for ITV in 2013. Is it all worth it?
ITV’s regional news u-turn
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.
Reshuffling the news
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?
TV’s most boring ident?
Published 20 August 2011
Tyne Tees? HTV? Who has the most boring ident of them all?
Production balance
Published 23 May 2011
Remember the days of regional ITV? Granada produced World In Action, Central produced Family Fortunes and The Cook Report, and Thames (R.I.P.) productions ranged from The Bill to This Week….
Sold for Sky
Published 3 March 2011
Admit it to yourself, this isn’t a surprise even if you initially thought it was. It seemed obvious that Sky News was going to be the sacrificial lamb in a…
Bleakley and Chiles talk Daybreak
Published 27 November 2010
Much has been said about ITV1’s Daybreak, the replacement for GMTV which, it has to be said, hasn’t got off to the greatest of starts. None of what’s been said has been said by me as frankly I’m a Today programme listener and not even my natural interest could beat my early morning, groggy inertia and make me put the television on. However whilst much has been said in the press and by other commentators, not a huge amount as been said by its stars. Until now.
The road to ITV’s recovery
Published 18 September 2010
Russ J Graham on what lessons can be learned from ITV making great drama for the BBC
The end of the Border line
Published 9 September 2010
Colm O’Rourke reflects on the life and death of Border Television
Not-so-Freeview
Published 18 June 2010
The announcement that BSkyB is withdrawing its Sky Sports News channel from Freeview may not be that unexpected but it does raise some interesting unanswered questions in relation to Sky’s…
Not a time for favours
Published 8 February 2010
BSkyB agrees to cut ITV stake In recent weeks it has been obvious that the “love affair” between politicians and BSkyB – at least in public – has started to…
The End of City Road
Published 4 February 2010
It’s been many years since I personally lived in the North East so the story that demolition had begun on Tyne Tees’s old City Road studios had passed me by.
News from somewhere
Published 22 October 2009
ITV to drop Big Ben from News at Ten titles It’s no surprise to learn that ITV bosses have decided to partly apportion the blame for relatively low ratings for…