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Published 25 August 2023
Scottish Television will be starting soon. Are you ready?
Published 14 August 2023
HTV’s programme controller on why we should see more from the smaller ITV companies
Published 21 July 2023
What’s on ITV tonight? There was once over a dozen answers to this question
Published 7 July 2023
If I could turn back time, we’d rock around the clock
Published 25 May 2023
ITV transmitters in 1962: lowland Scotland
Published 25 December 2021
Part Three: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television
Published 27 September 2021
The ITA gives us a quick look at how ITV is organised in 1966
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
Published 1 March 2021
STV turns 5 years old with a telethon and a staff party
Published 7 December 2020
1958 approaches… has the corner turned for ITV?
Published 9 October 2020
What makes ITV worth watching is regional programmes from your local station, says the IBA in 1976
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?
Published 27 December 2018
Scottish television director Haldane Duncan’s autobiography
Published 9 August 2018
An introduction to Independent Television in 1966
Published 23 July 2018
The Daily Mirror reports on the decisions taken by the ITA in the ITV franchise round of 1967
Published 10 May 2018
The Wall Street Journal looks on aghast at the 1991 ITV franchise auction
Published 1 February 2007
Haldane attempts to arrange an interview with Shirley MacLaine
Published 2 December 2006
Roddy Buxton plunges into the TBS archives one more time.
Published 1 October 2006
Auditioning at the BBC and STV couldn’t be more different
Published 2 September 2006
Saving Scottish Television from certain ruin
Published 10 March 2006
It’s 1990, and Haldane is asked to revive STV’s flagging New Year show
Published 1 March 2006
Haldane Duncan takes the high road to the soaps
Published 30 October 2005
Glenn Aylett details Glasgow’s new and existing BBC and independent television production centres
Published 1 January 2003
Folk medleys defined many aspects of start-up music, says Richard Elen