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All set for Saturday..?
Published 25 August 2023
Scottish Television will be starting soon. Are you ready?
The regions on the network
Published 14 August 2023
HTV’s programme controller on why we should see more from the smaller ITV companies
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
Another chance to see… the time
Published 7 July 2023
If I could turn back time, we’d rock around the clock
The Authority’s Stations: Central Scotland
Published 25 May 2023
ITV transmitters in 1962: lowland Scotland
The future of television: Who owns television?
Published 25 December 2021
Part Three: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television
ITV: the Programmes and the Companies
Published 27 September 2021
The ITA gives us a quick look at how ITV is organised in 1966
Royal Occasions
Published 17 May 2021
Jack Robertson reminisces about the Theatre Royal in Glasgow, once a thriving theatre and now, in 1962, home of Scottish Television
Oh! What a Night it was…
Published 1 March 2021
STV turns 5 years old with a telethon and a staff party
The Year in Commercial Television
Published 7 December 2020
1958 approaches… has the corner turned for ITV?
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
Shoestring splendours
Published 2 April 2019
In 1969 Ted Willis told the House of Lords it was time for ITV to consolidate. Did a trip to the Westward and Scottish studios change his mind?
Haldane Duncan 1945-2018
Published 27 December 2018
Scottish television director Haldane Duncan’s autobiography
Factsheet 1966: The Independent Television Authority
Published 9 August 2018
An introduction to Independent Television in 1966
Frost joins tycoons in shock ITV shake-up
Published 23 July 2018
The Daily Mirror reports on the decisions taken by the ITA in the ITV franchise round of 1967
Victorian Television
Published 10 May 2018
The Wall Street Journal looks on aghast at the 1991 ITV franchise auction
Haldane Duncan Part 10: Shirley on Sunday
Published 1 February 2007
Haldane attempts to arrange an interview with Shirley MacLaine
Tiptoe through the Startups – 4
Published 2 December 2006
Roddy Buxton plunges into the TBS archives one more time.
Haldane Duncan Part 8: The Audition
Published 1 October 2006
Auditioning at the BBC and STV couldn’t be more different
Haldane Duncan Part 7: Scottish TV times
Published 2 September 2006
Saving Scottish Television from certain ruin
Haldane Duncan Part 5: Haldane’s Hogmanay
Published 10 March 2006
It’s 1990, and Haldane is asked to revive STV’s flagging New Year show
Haldane Duncan Part 4: The Glendhu Factor – 1
Published 1 March 2006
Haldane Duncan takes the high road to the soaps
Scotland’s Media Capital
Published 30 October 2005
Glenn Aylett details Glasgow’s new and existing BBC and independent television production centres
Regional Flavours
Published 1 January 2003
Folk medleys defined many aspects of start-up music, says Richard Elen