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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
The Authority’s Stations: South-West England
Published 6 July 2023
ITV transmitters in 1962: the west country
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
Gus hops to new heights
Published 15 November 2021
TSW’s biggest star goes from strength to strength
Breakfast with Anna
Published 15 October 2021
The new ITV contracts are announced, to mixed reviews from the Daily Mirror
ITV: the Programmes and the Companies
Published 27 September 2021
The ITA gives us a quick look at how ITV is organised in 1966
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
A TV Tycoon Replies
Published 6 June 2020
A splendid 1972 rant from Westward’s Peter Cadbury on who should pay for ITV-2
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?
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
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
Big beat – West Country style
Published 12 April 2018
Can Westward discover the next group to follow in the footsteps of The Beatles in 1964?
Tonight’s Westward TV… in 1964
Published 4 October 2017
A look at what was on Westward on Sunday 4 October 1964
Meet the TV-land favourites
Published 22 December 2016
Look Westward looks into the best TV cash-ins for Christmas 1964
Westward Region
Published 15 December 2016
British Railways helps launch the new Westward Television in 1961
Tonight’s Westward TV… in 1964
Published 26 August 2016
A look at what was on Westward on Wednesday 26 August 1964
Tonight’s Thames, Southern, Anglia, Westward and Harlech… in 1969
Published 28 April 2016
A printers’ strike gives us the opportunity of comparing what was on ITV on Monday 28 April 1969
Westward progress
Published 20 July 2015
Practical Television in March 1962 looks in-depth at Westward’s almost-complete studio complex
One service, two areas, three audiences
Published 12 January 2015
The trials of covering Wales and the west of England
Stirred but not shaken
Published 28 December 2014
The Observer in 1980 has an exclusive on what would happen in the next franchise round
Video: Covering the West
Published 13 September 2014
From the sales department of Westward Television
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…
How to save ITV
Published 30 September 2005
“The People’s Channel” is off-course and heading downstream to disaster, says Glenn Aylett
Memories of ITV
Published 3 September 2005
Richard Wyn Jones grew up with ITV in Wales… and loved every minute of it
Big Brother’s Bigger Brother
Published 7 October 2003
Russ J Graham on those who have been kicked out of ITV
Regional Flavours
Published 1 January 2003
Folk medleys defined many aspects of start-up music, says Richard Elen