ITV

It’s launch day for ITV in London, but there’s a fire in the stables in Ambridge…

STV turns 5 years old with a telethon and a staff party

A scoop on the announcements of the first ITV franchises in 1954: Granada is to get the Midlands

1958 approaches… has the corner turned for ITV?

It’s the first of three opening days for the new Wales (West & North) Television

A Southern Rhapsody is about to hit Reading. Will you be watching?

The new ITV is about to begin in 1968. Will it be all new, part new or the same old faces?

Making television isn’t easy or quick, Granada tells the Heywood Round Table

What do Northern Ireland Independent Television have that Ulster Television don’t? The IBA in 1980 would have to decide

The charge today is: ITV dopes the public… according to the Daily Herald in 1958

ITV patiently explains ITV to viewers of ITV in 1959

The ITA reports on their biggest failure to date: the fall of Wales (West and North) Television in 1964

The Daily Mirror pokes fun at the disaster that was Harlech’s launch night

Get ready for ITV in this interview from 1989 with the designers of the new look

The Sunday Independent in Dublin reports on the opening of Ulster Television

The Belfast Telegraph reports on the opening of Ulster Television

ATV’s first annual report after the 1968 contract changes reveals the ups and downs of the new ITV

ITV-2 is coming soon, says the Daily Telegraph in 1971. But what will it look like?

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

Satirical magazine Private Eye’s view of the ITV strike in 1979

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

In 1970, the Daily Telegraph asks if Channel Television can survive

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

The IBA celebrates diversity on ITV in 1983

Television, in the shape of TCN 9 in Sydney, comes to Australia. The TVTimes in 1956 celebrates

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

The ITA answers back to critics who say ITV is too violent and commercial

Mike Scott celebrates 7 years of Granada in 1963

Ronnie Taylor celebrates 7 years of ABC in 1963

Inside ATV’s Postbag in 1963

The pick of your holiday viewing in 1964 from your ATV and ABC announcers

Look Westward looks into the best TV cash-ins for Christmas 1964