9 December 2020
A scoop on the announcements of the first ITV franchises in 1954: Granada is to get the Midlands
2 December 2020
It’s the first of three opening days for the new Wales (West & North) Television
23 November 2020
A Southern Rhapsody is about to hit Reading. Will you be watching?
12 October 2020
The new ITV is about to begin in 1968. Will it be all new, part new or the same old faces?
7 October 2020
Making television isn’t easy or quick, Granada tells the Heywood Round Table
23 September 2020
What do Northern Ireland Independent Television have that Ulster Television don’t? The IBA in 1980 would have to decide
14 September 2020
The charge today is: ITV dopes the public… according to the Daily Herald in 1958
12 August 2020
The ITA reports on their biggest failure to date: the fall of Wales (West and North) Television in 1964
7 August 2020
The Daily Mirror pokes fun at the disaster that was Harlech’s launch night
3 August 2020
Get ready for ITV in this interview from 1989 with the designers of the new look
31 October 2019
The Sunday Independent in Dublin reports on the opening of Ulster Television
31 October 2019
The Belfast Telegraph reports on the opening of Ulster Television
26 August 2019
ATV’s first annual report after the 1968 contract changes reveals the ups and downs of the new ITV
29 April 2019
ITV-2 is coming soon, says the Daily Telegraph in 1971. But what will it look like?
2 April 2019
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?
31 March 2019
Travel back to this day in 1966 to find out what’s on Granada
9 January 2019
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?
5 November 2018
A satirical profile of Sir Lew Grade from Barry Took in Punch magazine in 1972
29 October 2018
In 1980, Jack Tinker, theatre critic of the Daily Mail, turns his unsympathetic eye to the launch of ITV in 1955
25 October 2018
Satirical magazine Private Eye’s view of the ITV strike in 1979
3 September 2018
Vic Gardiner of LWT remembers the first 25 years of ITV in 1980 – and his part in the network’s development
29 July 2018
The TVTimes looks west of the Pennines for a glimpse of what a 7-day Granada will look like in July 1968
28 June 2018
In 1970, the Daily Telegraph asks if Channel Television can survive
25 June 2018
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
26 April 2018
Television, in the shape of TCN 9 in Sydney, comes to Australia. The TVTimes in 1956 celebrates
12 February 2018
The strike over, the TVTimes looks ahead to the new-look ITV in 1968 and beyond
15 January 2018
The Independent Television Authority hits back at critics of ITV in 1958
14 January 2018
Celebrating 60 years of ITV in South Wales and the West
22 September 2017
Australia reacts to the launch of Britain’s commercial television
17 July 2017
Rumours that ITV will be hard to receive swirl in March 1955. TV Mirror magazine tries to set the record straight
26 June 2017
What are the prospects for the new ITV? A US magazine finds out in early September 1955
9 May 2017
The ITA answers back to critics who say ITV is too violent and commercial
25 December 2016
The pick of your holiday viewing in 1964 from your ATV and ABC announcers
22 December 2016
Look Westward looks into the best TV cash-ins for Christmas 1964