ITV

Features about ITV's early-morning contractors – TV-am and GMTV

A look at ITV as it stood in 1966

Features about ITV's behemoth: Granada TV, Manchester 3

Inside the ITV companies in 1988

The plans and the arguments over what became Channel 4 and S4C

Features about ITV in Northern Ireland – Ulster/UTV

Features about ITV in Scotland – Scottish/STV and Grampian

Features about ITV in the south and south-east of England – Southern, TVS and Meridian

Features about ITV in south-west England – Westward, TSW and Westcountry

Features about ITV in the Midlands – ABC, ATV and Central

Features about ITV in Wales and the west of England – TWW, WWN/Teledu Cymru and Harlech/HTV

Border Television punches above its weight

CHANNEL TELEVISION AT 60 • The closest we got to local community TV

A gallop through how ITV got to opening day and what’s next for the new network

ITV is here. Will it kill the cinema?

Competition or cooperation? In May 1956 it’s still not clear which will be ITV’s main thrust

It’s launch day for ITV in London, but there’s a fire in the stables in Ambridge…

Border Television’s managing director on his station’s place in the world

1958 approaches… has the corner turned for ITV?

The new ITV is about to begin in 1968. Will it be all new, part new or the same old faces?

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?

In 1980, Jack Tinker, theatre critic of the Daily Mail, turns his unsympathetic eye to the launch of ITV in 1955

Satirical magazine Private Eye’s view of the ITV strike in 1979

Vic Gardiner of LWT remembers the first 25 years of ITV in 1980 – and his part in the network’s development

TVTimes introduces the new Yorkshire Television in July 1968

The Daily Mirror reports on the decisions taken by the ITA in the ITV franchise round of 1967

CHANNEL TELEVISION AT 60 • In 1970, the Daily Telegraph asks if Channel Television can survive

The IBA celebrates diversity on ITV in 1983

Television, in the shape of TCN 9 in Sydney, comes to Australia. The TVTimes in 1956 celebrates

The strike over, the TVTimes looks ahead to the new-look ITV in 1968 and beyond

The Independent Television Authority hits back at critics of ITV in 1958

Australia reacts to the launch of Britain’s commercial television

Rumours that ITV will be hard to receive swirl in March 1955. TV Mirror magazine tries to set the record straight

What are the prospects for the new ITV? A US magazine finds out in early September 1955

The ITA answers back to critics who say ITV is too violent and commercial

Ronnie Taylor celebrates 7 years of ABC in 1963

How The Age reacted to the birth of ITV

How the Ottawa Citizen reacted to the birth of ITV

How the Glasgow newspapers reacted to the birth of ITV

How the Daytona Beach Morning Journal reacted to the birth of ITV

The Central Electricity Generating Board on how what we watch affects their work in 1962

The TVTimes celebrates Anglia’s 21st birthday in 1980

Remembering the strike-torn, strife-worn, cold, wet and miserable… 1980s

The Observer in 1980 has an exclusive on what would happen in the next franchise round

ABC, ATV London and Rediffusion bow out; Thames, LWT and Yorkshire come in

Concluding the views of ITV’s former Director of Programmes

David Liddiment gives a personal view

The forgotten ATV