The Times is Britain's second largest broadsheet newspaper, owned by News International, one of Rupert Murdoch's companies.

The paper follows a Conservative line, and is probably the most famous UK newspaper outside of the country.

You can find out more about the Times and the Sunday Times at www.thetimes.co.uk

What's in a name?  In modern times, television companies - being just that, companies - have sprung on to the scene ready named.  Meridian applied for and won its contract as Meridian.  Carlton and Westcountry did the same.  GMTV was the exception, beginning life as Sunrise, changing only after Sky Television complained.

In the 1960s, this was not the way things were done.  HTV began life as the Harlech Consortium, decided on Harlech Television as a name, and then changed it after two years.

In the 1950s had ATV applied as ABDC (the Associated Broadcasting Development Company), became ABC, then Associated TeleVision, then ATV Network and finally Central Independent Television.

The new London contractors in 1968 had a similar process.  Thames Television never applied for its licence, so began life as Rediffusion London (previously Associated-Rediffusion) and as ABC Weekend Television.

ABC, anticipating winning the London weekend contract, considered Capital Television as a name.  When the joint company was formed with Rediffusion, the name stuck until someone suggested 'Tower Television' after London's newest and most noticeable landmark.

The London Television Consortium won the weekend contract, and chose the name Thames Television.  This later appears in cuttings as Thames Weekend Television.  Several more names were considered and discarded before it was thought by the media-savvy board that 'London Weekend Television' was not only apposite, but also quite hip for the time.

This left ABC and Rediffusion to decide on Thames Television for their company's name.

In the newly-created Yorkshire region, winner Telefusion Yorkshire and loser Yorkshire Independent Television were merged by the ITA (who wanted YITV's talent and TFY's money) to form Yorkshire Television - too late for Follyfoot and some other 1967-made film series which to this day carry a tiny copyright notice at the end of the titles crediting Telefusion Yorkshire for the work.