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In the News (Mon 13 Oct 08)

  
  Bernstein, Sidney
It is said he chose the name Granada for his cinema chain, and later for his television company, because its Spanish reference connoted sun-drenched gaiety and flamboyance, the qualities he sought to have associated with his entertainment establishments, which tended in the early days of cinema to be decorated in the Spanish baroque style.
All the same, Granada and Bernstein were quick to overcome their reservations when the resulting Television Act of 1954 signalled the end of the BBC's monopoly and permitted private companies to apply for the first regional commercial franchises.
Already by January 1957, Granada was responsible for all the top ten rated programmes receivable in its region and, in 1962, it became the first station to screen the Beatles to the British television audience.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/B/htmlB/bernsteinsi/bersteinsi.htm   (950 words)

  
 Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited was made by Granada television, scripted by John Mortimer and originally shown on ITV in October 1981.
These "white flannel" dramas, both on television and on the big screen, represented a yearning for an England that was no more, or never was.
Granada was committed to capturing the atmosphere of Waugh's original novel and the high production values signaled a desire for authenticity.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/B/htmlB/bridesheadre/bridesheadre.htm   (761 words)

  
 screenonline: Broadcasters and Industry Bodies > Granada Television
To emphasise their commitment to the region, the Bernsteins established apartments in the complex, and in fact this regional imperative was so pervasive that ultimately 'Granada' and 'from the North' became inseparable and the Bernsteins referred to their empire as 'Granadaland'.
Initially, Granada broadcast to a 'pan-North' region, covering both sides of the Pennines from transmitters at Winter Hill and Emley Moor, a situation that didn't change as a result of the 1964 franchise round.
Granada annexed the latter in 2004 to create 'ITV plc', which now broadcasts an almost entirely non-regional, homogenised, nationally-networked schedule and provides the 'third channel' to the entire country outside Northern Ireland, Scotland and the Channel Islands.
www.screenonline.org.uk /tv/id/507673/index.html   (1250 words)

  
 University of Chester: Media Department
These included a four week work placement at Granada Television in Manchester and the commissioning by Granada of the documentary I'd produced and directed on the course, A Special Need to Achieve, which was broadcast in July 2003.
The MA in Television Production was a perfect combination of practice and theory and its strong links with Granada Television through GMEP became more evident as the course progressed.
Its links with the television industry particularly ITV Granada and the BBC along with the practical elements of the course prepared me for employment at Granada TV where I worked for three years before moving to the BBC.
www.chester.ac.uk /media/tvstudents.html   (890 words)

  
 Granada Television   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Granada Television is one of the largest independent television companies in the United Kingdom.
Their north west regional news studio is based in this building in the Dock complex, and news broadcasts are made to the north west from here throughout every day.
Also situated in the Dock complex is the Granada studio for the daytime television magazine programme "This Morning", presented by Richard Madely and Judy Finnigan.
www.merseyworld.com /albert/granada   (86 words)

  
 Coronation Street, Granada Television Studios, Manchester
Granada Television's flagship long running TV show, Coronation Street, affectionately known simply as "Corrie", was first transmitted on Friday 9th December 1960 with an expected six weeks run.
It was envisaged and created by novelist Tony Warren as a short drama serial based on everyday life in a fictitious Manchester suburb called Weatherfield, populated by various stereotypical characters, and set in the then rather dour back-to-back terraced streets of a less prosperous northern city.
The show has has attracted a whole generation of writers and authors to create its storylines, and a veritable cavalcade of stars of film, theatre and television have trodden its cobbled street.
www.manchester2002-uk.com /celebs/corrie/corrie-st.html   (439 words)

  
 The 1974 Granada Television Trial By Jury
This performance was broadcast on Granada Television in Christmas Eve, 1974.
This production of Trial by Jury, made by Granada TV as part of their Parade arts series, is an excellent rendering of the complete opera with superb singers (many of whom were appearing with Sadlers Wells at the time) and great musical direction from Sir Charles Mackerras.
For what must have been a fairly cheaply-made affair, the set of a Victorian courtroom is very impressive (although it does have that slightly-painted look one sees on stage sets).
www.concentric.net /~Oakapple/gasdisc/tbjgranada.htm   (366 words)

  
  Granada Television launch 3 May 1956 -- Eye On Manchester
Granada TV have been running trials of the programme at the Granada TV studio.
Thanks to Granada, people who thought they had to go South to make good are coming back to Manchester.
History appears to be repeating itself, as the BBC are making preparations to move staff and facilities to Manchester in the next few years.
www.eyeonmanchester.com /granada-television-launch-3-may-1956   (816 words)

  
  Granada Television - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Granada Television was the British ITV (commercial television) contractor for the "North of England" weekday franchise from 1954 (broadcasting began on May 3, 1956) until 1968, and for the "Northwest England" all-week franchise from 1968.
Granada was the only one of the original four ITA franchisees from 1954 which survived as a franchise holder into the twenty-first century, until the merger of its parent company, Granada plc in 2004 into ITV plc.
Granada Breeze, the daytime lifestyle channel, was broadcast from a custom-built conservatory studio in the grounds of the existing studios, but was the first channel to disappear, closing in 2002.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Granada_Television   (2586 words)

  
 Granada writes | Telemusications from Transdiffusion
When Granada came to do the presentation for their innovative “Granada In the North” service (a groundbreaking mix of regional and national news) they either didn’t want to or didn’t remember to modify the “G”, and you can see how the namestyle looks without the spurred “G”.
Granada was keen to adopt new trends in graphic design, and made good use of the new wave of typefaces.
Granada Pan-North were commendably consistent with their graphic design, this slide being one of a huge series of “H” design Granada slides.
www.transdiffusion.org /tmc/fonts   (3773 words)

  
 News | TimesDaily.com | TimesDaily | Florence, AL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Granada Television was the British ITV (commercial television) contractor for the "North of England" weekday franchise from 1954 (broadcasting began on May 3, 1956) until 1968, and for the "Northwest England" all-week franchise from 1968.
Granada was the only one of the original four ITA franchisees from 1954 which survived as a franchise holder into the twenty-first century, until the merger of its parent company, Granada plc in 2004 into ITV plc.
Granada Breeze, the daytime lifestyle channel, was broadcast from a custom-built conservatory studio in the grounds of the existing studios, but was the first channel to disappear, closing in 2002.
www.timesdaily.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Granada_Television   (2409 words)

  
 The Twentieth Century Society
The Granada building is important chiefly because the architect on the project was Ralph Tubbs; perhaps best known for his work on the 1951 Festival of Britain, with his design for the Festival’s centrepiece, The Dome of Discovery.
Granada House was one of the first buildings in the city to be constructed using the curtain wall method.
Granada House is an important building in Manchester’s architectural and cultural histories and if Granada does pull out of the city we must do all we can to protect it.
www.c20society.org.uk /docs/building/granada.html   (627 words)

  
 Granada Media   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
With six regional ITV licences, including London Weekend Television (LWT), Meridian Broadcasting and Anglia Television, Granada Media is the largest and most successful company in the UK commercial television sector.
In 1954 Granada won one of the country's first commercial television broadcast licences: the North of England week-day franchise.
Granada Media owns 50% of the digital terrestrial television operator ONdigital; the other half is owned by Carlton Communications.
www.justpeople.com /ContentNew/Companies/FullReports/GranadaMedia.asp   (553 words)

  
 Yorkshire Television at AllExperts
Yorkshire Television Limited is the ITV contractor for Yorkshire, England, and the surrounding areas.
Granada's first move was to scrap the hated-in-some-quarters Channel 3 branding, starting from 9 March 1998.
Yorkshire Television was placed in charge in transmission control and presentation for all of Granada's television stations in the North of England, with the creation of the Northern Transmission Centre.
en.allexperts.com /e/y/yo/Yorkshire_Television.htm   (802 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Granada then agreed a deal to take over Yorkshire Tyne Tees Television in 1997, giving the broadcaster access to both Yorkshire and North East franchises.
Granada then went on to purchase all of UNM's television interests (including its ITV franchises), which brought Meridian, Anglia and HTV into its power, however due to regulation Granada was forced to sell HTV to Carlton.
In 2004, Granada officially merged with Carlton Television, creating ITV plc, although it was a takeover by Granada in effect.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=ITV1   (1335 words)

  
 Granada International
Welcome to Granada International, one of the largest and most successful commercial television distributors in Europe.
Granada International’s catalogue covers every possible genre, from drama and movies to entertainment, kids, factual, wildlife and formats...
Granada International has been honoured at this year's RTS Programme Awards with drama success for Coronation Street, Prime Suspect, The Street and Housewife 49.
www.int.granadamedia.com /sf/asp/content/index.asp   (251 words)

  
 BBC News | BUSINESS | Granada dominates ITV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Granada Media is buying United News & Media's ITV franchises - Meridian, Anglia and HTV - giving it a clear lead in the battle for overall control of Britain's leading commercial network.
Granada said a consolidated ITV would be able to accelerate its digital strategy and rapidly develop itv.co.uk and a family of themed channels.
Granada said United's strength in children's, animation and wildlife programmes would complement its own strengths in drama, entertainment and factual genres.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/855451.stm   (589 words)

  
 Ian Rowland: The Mindreader, The Mind Motivator. Television Miracles Granada Talk TV 1 of 2
I knew I would be demonstrating some ESP and spoon-bending, but I thought it would be nice to do something different as well.
About half an hour before the main segment in which I featured, I did a brief trailer to camera (all of this was live television).
I suggested that viewers who had their own PC at home should get a standard floppy disk, and put some non-essential data on it.
www.ianrowland.com /TelevisionMiracles/GranadaBreeze/TVMGranada1of2.html   (274 words)

  
 Historical Television Website
Another key difference was that Independent Television (or ITV as it became known later) consisted of several different companies, each one serving a different part of the British Isles and producing programmes which were either shown locally or nationally across the entire network.
Granada Television (which originally served the North-West of England and Yorkshire) is the longest surviving of the ITV companies (since 1956) and now owns all of the ITV franchises for England and Wales.
Westward Television was arguably the first of the "second wave" of ITV franchises to start broadcasting in 1961, following on from the initial batch of franchises which had included Southern and Tyne Tees as well as the pioneers Associated-Rediffusion and Granada.
freespace.virgin.net /mymail.athome/channels/itv/itv.html   (2196 words)

  
 TV Whirl - Granada Television 1956-2002
Granada Television has served the North of England since the earliest days of ITV in 1956, making it one of the oldest companies on the network.
Sadly in recent times, Granada has abandoned many of it's regional roots in favour of becoming a massive international media company, and dominating the ITV Network.
By now, Granada own most of the Northern Regions, and are operating out of Yorkshire's studios in Leeds, rather than their home in Manchester.
www.tvwhirl.co.uk /granada.html   (303 words)

  
 Granada's gloved hands screen anxiety. | Technology from AllBusiness.com
Few television analysts were surprised when, last October, the ITC, U.K.'s TV regulatory body, re-awarded to Granada Television the TV franchise for the North West region.
Indeed, for reasons not yet clear, Granada Television has been benevolently ignored by the trade and general press as far as its wheeling and dealing are concerned.
And few headlines were printed when, in December 1991, Granada Television announced a 40 per cent slump in pre-tax profits for the year to September, compared to 1990.
www.allbusiness.com /technology/290373-1.html   (734 words)

  
 Obituaries: DAVID PLOWRIGHT Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
But it was also shortly after the board of the Granada Group, in order to arrest the group's declining fortunes, had enlisted the skills of Gerry Robinson, a notably resolute young Irish business leader who had recently achieved great financial success with his Compass catering company.
He played a key role in Granada's pioneering election programme, Marathon, in 1968, in which every political candidate was given a voice, and in the coverage of the party conferences.
In 1975 he was made a director of the Granada Group and in 1987 became chairman of Granada Television.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20060829/ai_n16694496   (815 words)

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