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The latest musings from our editors
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Φ 4 February 2010 - The End of City Road
Φ 28 January 2010 - Changing the perspective
Φ 21 January 2010 - Living in the past
30-second guide to...
Granada (1956-2002)
Granada was the last of the original "Big 4"
companies to come on air. Operating from
Quay
Street in Salford, broadcasting began from the
Winter Hill
transmitter on 17 February and from
Emley Moor on 5 November
1956. Granada operated across the entire
North
region on weekdays only, with ABC on weekends, until 1968 when the
ITA changed
the structure of the network and Granada became a 7-day operation but only
in the North
West. Granada was regularly accused of being Manchester-centric,
although they opened studios in
Liverpool in the 1980s. In the
consolidation of ITV in the 1990s and early 2000s, Granada became the
largest ITV company and eventually merged with the second largest,
Carlton, to
form the Granada-dominated ITV plc, which operates all the English and Welsh
ITV contracts. As part of this consolidation, Quay Street is to close
and its operations, except
news and
Coronation Street, will move to the former
Yorkshire
Television studios in Leeds and the company will be renamed ITV
Productions. Famous figures in Granada included
Sidney and
Cecil Bernstein, the founders,
Denis
Forman,
David Plowright,
Peter Eckersley,
Gus Macdonald and Jack Rosenthal. Famous programmes included
World
in Action, Coronation Street,
What The Papers Say,
Cinema,
University Challenge,
Lift Off With
Ayshea and
Chelsea at
Nine.
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