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The Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) automatically extends all ITV franchise contracts from 1974 to 1981, owing to the enormous costs of introducing colour television. 1975. No events. 1976. No events. 1977. May – A strike occurs at Thames when production assistants refuse to operate new video equipment.
Regional programming on ITV was a major concern for the IBA, particularly in the 1980 franchise round. The IBA was determined each franchise provided the best possible local service, so the South of England transmission region was split in two, with the successful applicant required to provide separate news services for the South and South East, while in the Midlands ATV's commitment to ...
The Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) automatically extends all ITV franchise contracts from 1974 to 1981, owing to the enormous costs of introducing colour television. 1975. No events. 1976. May – LWT is reorganised, to form a new company, LWT (Holdings) Limited.
May – The 10-minute interval between the end of TV-am and the start of the regional ITV franchises at 9:25am ends because the switch of the broadcast signals from TV-am to each regional ITV franchise becomes an automatic process and the IBA extended TV-am's hours to 9:25am to allow for continuous programming.
However, the United Kingdom's Junior Eurovision Song Contest entries were broadcast and selected by ITV from 2003 to 2005, before ITV withdrew in 2006 due to low viewing figures. ITV were also set to host the 2004 contest in Manchester , but pulled out of hosting due to financial and scheduling issues, as well as the previous years poor viewing ...
The 1974 franchise round sees no changes in ITV's contractors as it is felt that the huge cost in switching to colour television would have made the companies unable to compete against rivals in a franchise battle. 1975. No events. 1976. 5 January – Channel Report is broadcast for the first time. The name continues to be used until 2013.
ITV has held early talks with the Abu Dhabi-backed investment group RedBird IMI, led by CEO Jeff Zucker, about a potential merger of their production businesses, according to a report. Citing two ...
The Independent Television Authority (ITA) was an agency created by the Television Act 1954 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2.c. 55) to supervise the creation of "Independent Television" (ITV), the first commercial television network in the United Kingdom.