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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
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 ...
By 2004, the ITV network was owned by five companies, of which two, Carlton and Granada had become major players by owning between them all the franchises in England, Wales, the Scottish borders and the Isle of Man. [12] [13] [14] That same year, the two merged to form ITV plc [12] [13] [14] with the only subsequent acquisitions being the ...
Pages in category "Television channels and stations established in 1955" The following 90 pages are in this category, out of 90 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Sales of TV Guide began to reverse course with the 4–10 September 1953, "Fall Preview" issue, which had an average circulation of 1,746,327 copies; by the mid-1960s, TV Guide had become the most widely circulated magazine in the United States. [9] Print TV listings were a common feature of newspapers from the late-1950s to the mid-2000s.