ITV

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?

Travel back to this day in 1966 to find out what’s on Granada

June 1970: a prolonged strike at Granada has just finished, but, the Financial Times asks, will they ever recover? And even if they do, surely Coronation Street is now doomed?

A satirical profile of Sir Lew Grade from Barry Took in Punch magazine in 1972

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

A look back from 1965 at the events of 1955 and the birth of ITV

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

The TVTimes looks west of the Pennines for a glimpse of what a 7-day Granada will look like in July 1968

TVTimes introduces the new Yorkshire Television in July 1968

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

The IBA celebrates diversity on ITV in 1983

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

Celebrating 60 years of ITV in South Wales and the West

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

Mike Scott celebrates 7 years of Granada in 1963

Ronnie Taylor celebrates 7 years of ABC in 1963

The TVTimes celebrates Anglia’s 21st birthday in 1980

The huge profits of ITV weren’t a myth – but they also weren’t true for everyone.

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

LWT tries to strike back

Concluding the views of ITV’s former Director of Programmes

David Liddiment gives a personal view

From 1955 to 2005 by way of changing priorities and consumerism

From least-worst to least-best in one lifetime

Merge, merge, merge and miss the boat

Reality television, talent shows and the reality of television talent

Growing up with ITV in Wales

Listening to Nigel Pickard whistling to himself

The magic of Supermarionettes

Children’s programming always had a real home on ITV

Something essentially different

Walking a tightrope

Got there in the end

If we can’t have ATV…

A suspicion of greatness

It’s that man again

All bloody entertaining

The loss of Thames damages ITV

Deep pockets, deep thoughts

Without you, I’m nothing

Because someone had to win