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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 ...
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 ...
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]
In January 1955 the ITA authorised the creation of ITN (Independent Television News), a company owned and operated by the ITV companies collectively, to provide a news service for the new network. On 22 September 1955 the ITV service opened in the London area, where the ITA transmitter could reach a population of nearly 12 million.
In 1955, with the advent of ITV a parallel effort to provide a Band III network was also underway. The pre-1955 BBC stations used the five channels of Band I, but with the introduction of Band III, some BBC stations started appearing there too (most of them on channels 12 or 13). All ITV transmitters were in Band III (mostly on channels 8, 9 ...
Associated-Rediffusion, later Rediffusion London, was the British ITV franchise holder for London and parts of the surrounding counties, on weekdays between 22 September 1955 and 29 July 1968. It was the first ITA franchisee to go on air, and one of the " Big Four " companies that between them produced the majority of ITV networked programmes ...
On 22 September 1955 when the ITV television service was launched, ITN provided an early evening news service at 5:50pm. It was known simply as ITN News, and usually presented by Gordon Honeycombe.