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On 1 September 1986, Granada Television reverted to using a caption featuring a gold or chrome 3D pointed "G" on a graded blue background. [66] [68] [69] Granada Television used in-vision continuity featuring northern personalities giving messages. It was common for the logo to be seen for a few seconds after the continuity before the programme ...
The first episode of This Morning aired at 10:40 am on 3 October 1988 and finished at 12:10 pm, live from the Granada studio inside the Albert Dock in Liverpool. An industry insider believed the idea would not work and would be pulled by Christmas 1988, but despite This Morning being launched with no publicity, its ratings quickly rose to a ...
13 March – ITV announces that ITV Play will permanently close down following recent concerns over participation television. [12] On 16 March, its slot on Freeview is taken by the recently launched ITV2+1. 2008. 5 February – ITV4 becomes a 24-hour channel. 17 July – ITV HD launches as a full-time service. [13] 1 December – ITV4 +1 ...
Judith Adele Finnigan (born 16 May 1948) is an English television presenter and writer. She co-presented ITV's This Morning (1988–2001, 2019–2020) and the Channel 4 chat show, Richard & Judy (2001–2008) alongside her husband Richard Madeley. Her debut novel Eloise, published in 2012, was a Sunday Times bestseller.
On 8 November, Granada Sky Broadcasting was renamed ITV Digital Channels Limited, shortly after the closure of Granada Plus left Men & Motors as the sole survivor of the original four channels. As part of ITV's buy-out of Sky's shareholding, Sky would have received 49.5% of any proceeds (net of liabilities) from any future sale of Men & Motors ...
Granada Talk TV was a short-lived TV channel owned and operated by Granada Sky Broadcasting, a joint venture between BSkyB and Granada Television.It launched on 1 October 1996 with the other channels of the bouquet, but due to low viewership the channel ceased broadcasting on 31 August 1997.
As of 2013, most bulletins now air under the joint branding of ITV News and Granada Reports with breakfast updates entitled Good Morning Granada. The programme was unaffected by cutbacks to ITV regional news in early 2009. [10] The only major change saw ITV Granada take over coverage of the Isle of Man from ITV Tyne Tees & Border on 16 July 2009.
Granada Television is reawarded its licence. A rival bid came from Mersey Television, a company producing the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside. They bid £35 million compared to Granada's £9m, [14] but Granada won as Mersey TV did not meet the 'quality threshold' applied by the Independent Television Commission. 1992