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How the new look will change ITV
Published 22 September 2022
The franchise results are in. What will this mean for ITV in the 1980s?
Tuning in with the winners
Published 22 September 2022
Elkan Allan looks at what convinced the IBA to pick TVS, TSW and TV-am
Breakfast with Anna
Published 15 October 2021
The new ITV contracts are announced, to mixed reviews from the Daily Mirror
Southern get switched off
Published 27 June 2019
Reading’s Evening Post rushes out a front page splash to announce that Southern TV has lost its franchise in 1980
Tonight’s TVS and Channel 4… in 1990
Published 11 July 2018
A look at what was on TVS in the south and south east and Channel 4 on Wednesday 11 July 1990
Shotgun wedding
Published 18 June 2018
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
Losers search for the silver lining
Published 31 May 2018
What will Thames, TVS, TSW and TV-am do next? Broadcast magazine speculates in September 1992
Victorian Television
Published 10 May 2018
The Wall Street Journal looks on aghast at the 1991 ITV franchise auction
Tonight’s TVS… in 1984
Published 21 March 2018
A look at what was on TVS in the south and south-east on Wednesday 21 March 1984
Tonight’s TVS… in 1984
Published 28 January 2016
A look at what was on Television South on Saturday 28 January 1984
A new forest romp
Published 28 September 2015
The last gasp of the old-style start-up from one of the last new IBA companies
Regionally yours
Published 23 October 2008
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…