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26 September – Double Your Money (1955–1968) 27 September – ITV Play of the Week (1955–1974) 28 September – The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1955–1956) 2 October – Joan and Leslie (1955–1958) 9 October – Theatre Royal (1955–1956) 10 October – The Granville Melodramas (1955–1956) 15 October – On The Town (1955-1956)
The history of ITV, the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies "Independent Television" commercial network, goes back to 1955. [1]Independent Television began as a network of independently-owned regional companies that were both broadcasters and programme makers, beginning with four companies operating six stations in three large regions in 1955–1956, and gradually expanding to 17 stations in ...
TV Times is a British television listings magazine. From 1955 until 1991, it was the only source of seven-day listings for ITV and, from 1982, Channel 4 (as well as S4C in Wales in an enclosed local supplement titled Sbec). The magazine did not circulate nationally until 1968 as some (usually smaller) regional stations opted to produce their ...
23 December – The ITV News Channel stops broadcasting at 6pm. Poor ratings in comparison to BBC News 24 and Sky News and ITV's desire to reuse the channel's allocation on Freeview, were cited as the reasons. [6] 2006. 4 September – The ITV Lunchtime News reverts to being a 30-minute programme and its start time is moved back to 1:30pm. 2007
ITV takes over from Channel 4 as the exclusive terrestrial broadcaster of horse racing. This is the first time since 1988 that the sport had been shown on ITV. [55] UTV Ireland closes and is replaced by be3. 4 February – Following ITV's return to covering live boxing, the channel launches a pay-per-view channel ITV Box Office. [56]
ITV Sport has broadcast many boxing matches over the years under the Big Fight Live banner and the sport was a regular fixture on ITV screens until the mid 1990s when ITV lost its two premier contracts to Sky Sports [62] In 2005, ITV returned to the ring when it reached an agreement to broadcast the main share of Frank Warren's Sports Network ...
The Benny Hill Show (BBC TV/ BBC One 1955–1968, ITV/Thames 1969–1989) Big Brother (Channel 4 2000–2010, Channel 5 2011–2018, ITV2/ITV1 2023–present) Bigheads (2017) The Big Match (1968–1992, ITV4 2008–present as The Big Match Revisited) The Bill (1983, 1984–2010, repeated on Drama) Birds of a Feather (BBC One 1989–1998, ITV ...
July 9 – Dixon of Dock Green (UK) on BBC Television (1955–1976) July 20 – Frankie Laine Time on CBS (1955–1956) July 29 – This Is Your Life (UK) on BBC Television (1955–2003) September 10 Gunsmoke on CBS (1955–1975) It's Always Jan, starring Janis Paige, on CBS (1955–1956) September 12 – Medical Horizons on ABC (1955–1956 ...