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ATV Midlands News is a regional television news programme, produced by ATV, that served the English Midlands.. First broadcast on Monday 7 May 1956, ATV Midlands News was one of the first daily regional news services on British television, originally consisting of a short early evening summary of local headlines read by Patricia Cox (one of the first female newsreaders on British television ...
ATV Network Limited, originally Associated TeleVision (ATV), was a British broadcaster, part of the ITV (Independent Television) network. It provided a service to London at weekends from 1955 to 1968, to the Midlands on weekdays from 1956 to 1968, and subsequently to the Midlands all week from 1968 to 1982.
17 February – ITV begins broadcasting in the Midlands - ATV Midlands launches ITV in the Midlands and the following day the Midlands’ weekend contractor ABC Weekend TV broadcasts for the first time. 3 May – Granada Television launches ITV across the north of England. 7 May – The first broadcast of ATV Midlands News takes place.
Launched on Friday 1 January 1982, replacing ATV Today, Central News was initially a pan-regional service based in Birmingham airing a 6pm programme on weeknights alongside shorter weekday bulletins after ITN's News at One and News at Ten. During the rest of the decade, the region was eventually broken up into three sub-regions, receiving their ...
It runs for 20 minutes and follows the teatime 15 minute-long ATV Midlands News bulletin. Later ATV Today is later expanded to the full 30 minutes and the news bulletin is subsumed into the main programme. 2 November – The first edition of ATV's soap opera Crossroads is broadcast. The programme continues to be produced by Central after it ...
Midlands licensee ATV is allowed to retain its licence on the condition that 49% of the company is owned locally. [1] Another condition is that the company is renamed to demonstrate that it is effectively a new business. 1981. Central Independent Television is the name chosen for the new dual-region Midlands franchise. 1982
28 July – ABC broadcasts for the last time. [2] Its Midlands service is to be replaced by ATV and its North of England service is to be replaced by Granada Television in the North West and Yorkshire Television in Yorkshire. 30 July – Thames Television goes on the air. [2]
ATV Today is a regional television news and current affairs programme, produced by ATV, serving the English Midlands.. The programme aired from 5 October 1964 until 31 December 1981 – the final day of broadcasting from ATV before the company was restructured and relaunched as Central Independent Television.