Articles about TVS

What’s on ITV tonight? There was once over a dozen answers to this question

If I could turn back time, we’d rock around the clock

It’s war as the BBC and TVS go head to head… over a car sticker

Inside Television South in 1988

The franchise results are in. What will this mean for ITV in the 1980s?

Elkan Allan looks at what convinced the IBA to pick TVS, TSW and TV-am

The new ITV contracts are announced, to mixed reviews from the Daily Mirror

Reading’s Evening Post rushes out a front page splash to announce that Southern TV has lost its franchise in 1980

A look at what was on TVS in the south and south east and Channel 4 on Wednesday 11 July 1990

Has the IBA managed to bring peace to the Westward board room? And even if so, will they force Westward to merge with a rival bidder? Peter Fiddick of The Guardian speculates in October 1980

What will Thames, TVS, TSW and TV-am do next? Broadcast magazine speculates in September 1992

The Wall Street Journal looks on aghast at the 1991 ITV franchise auction

A look at what was on TVS in the south and south-east on Wednesday 21 March 1984

A look at what was on Television South on Saturday 28 January 1984

Recreating the pre-history of TVS

The last gasp of the old-style start-up from one of the last new IBA companies

Rob Williams takes a tour of Television South

Joy of Six: ITV regional idents This “top six” list of regional ITV idents controversially puts TSW in the top position ahead of ATV (the heretics); TSW’s second ident in…

TV from Northam comes to an end

TV from Northam spans a lifetime

The changes of style in a major minor

Now in colour

An interview with designer Alan Scragg

The changes that have split the south

David Hastings watches everything change

Phil Paterson watches the IBA kill a station

Colm O’Rourke recalls the last franchise round

Television takes on cinema in the regions