Articles about TV-am

A new programme and a new role for ITN as breakfast television launches on Channel 4

The new ITV contracts are announced, to mixed reviews from the Daily Mirror

Who’s promising what in the race to be Britain’s first breakfast TV contractor?

Selina Scott, Frank Bough and Nick Ross are here to welcome you to Britain’s ‘first’ television breakfast show in 1983

Inside TV-am’s popular children’s magazine show, the Wide Awake Club, in 1988

Will TV-am be a success? Peter Jay says yes. Others tell the Sunday Express Magazine in 1981 that it’s a disaster in the making

Looking forward to the arrival of TV-am, later in 1983

What will Thames, TVS, TSW and TV-am do next? Broadcast magazine speculates in September 1992

The Wall Street Journal looks on aghast at the 1991 ITV franchise auction

French television looks on in amazement as les rosbifs interrupt breakfast by adding television

Good morning, Mrs Thatcher

All the stations, all the times

David Hastings watches everything change

Andrew Hesford-Booth watches television during the day

The ruination of ITV, seen by Stephen Hopkins

Kif Bowden-Smith thinks the ITC isn’t working

Thatcherism killed TV-am, writes Russ J Graham

Russ J Graham on the tv-am strike

Colm O’Rourke recalls the last franchise round

Towards 100%

David Hastings looks at the launch of breakfast television

David Brockman’s magnetic symbols

James Pittman says there was another way

The first national ITV service