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Award-winning news

Published 4 December 2023

Tyne Tees wins awards in the 1960s

Clash bash crash

Published 15 September 2023

A new taller mast at Emley Moor was too little too late.

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

Trident? Who are Trident?

Published 11 July 2023

What do you mean you’ve never heard of Trident?

The Authority’s Stations: North-East England

Published 15 June 2023

ITV transmitters in 1962: Northeastern England

What does the future hold for archive television?

Published 9 June 2023

As demand for more and more content grows, archive TV is getting harder to find

Technical operations

Published 27 January 2023

The technical side to getting television to your home… and to the transmitter

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?

The ‘Emmy’ winner who sent Robin Day to cover sport and made the Minister stop traffic!

Published 11 July 2022

A profile of a man who worked at Ally Pally, ITN, Anglia, Tyne Tees and Oracle – Arthur Clifford

Announcing Ray Moore

Published 12 November 2021

Ray Moore gets a job at Granada, and at Tyne Tees, parlays that into a job at ATV and then makes the jump to the BBC

ITV: the Programmes and the Companies

Published 27 September 2021

The ITA gives us a quick look at how ITV is organised in 1966

Opening shots in TV war

Published 9 November 2020

There’s a new kid on the Granada block: Phil Redmond aims to take the North West franchise in 1991

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

Ship’s siren may be call sign for TTT

Published 30 September 2020

Big promises from Tyne Tees Television in 1958 as they get ready to launch

Tonight’s ABC North… in 1966

Published 27 March 2019

Travel back to this day in 1966 to find out what’s on ABC in the North

TV franchise – the picture is unclear

Published 18 October 2018

Ructions at City Road as Tyne Tees wins its franchise in 1980 but is ordered to restructure

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

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

Tonight’s Tyne Tees TV… in 1984

Published 29 March 2017

A look at what was on Tyne Tees on Thursday 29 March 1984

✎ I see you off to distant clouds

Published 18 February 2017

The wrecking ball takes the last hint of Tyne Tees Television in Newcastle

Tonight’s TV… in 1999

Published 16 November 2016

A look at what was on television on Tuesday 16 November 1999

Tonight’s Tyne Tees… in 1984

Published 16 April 2016

A look at what was on Tyne Tees Television on Monday 16 April 1984

We broke the code

Published 2 February 2016

I think we now know ‘what’, but not ‘why’

Tonight’s Tyne Tees Television… in 1959

Published 15 January 2016

A look at what was on Tyne Tees on Thursday 15 January 1959

Welcome to Tyne Tees!

Published 15 January 2016

Local luminaries and famous stars send Tyne Tees and The Viewer their best wishes

Inside City Road

Published 15 January 2016

The first edition of The Viewer in 1959 takes us on a tour around the new Tyne Tees studios

Covering the region

Published 12 November 2015

The IBA Yearbook for 1974 reports on what Tyne Tees Television produces locally

Five into four won’t go

Published 3 November 2014

Transmitter problems for Yorkshire, Tyne Tees and Anglia

A member of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
Liverpool, Friday 29 March 2024