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	ITV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		ITV (Independent Television) is the name given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up to provide competition to the BBC.
		ITV contracts were not permanent and the first franchise round was made in 1963 with new licenses commencing in 1964.
		stv (Grampian Television): North-east Scotland franchise (1961–2006 as Grampian; 2006– as stv)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ITV (1949 words)

	ITV1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Northern and Central Scotland the channel is known as stv and UTV in Northern Ireland.
		From its founding in 1955 the channel was known nationally as Independent Television (later ITV) and locally by the regional branding of the local ITV franchise operator.
		However from 28 October 2002, in England and the Scottish Borders (where all the franchises are owned by ITV plc), the station dropped regional branding and identification before most programming and adopted a unified national branding of ITV1.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ITV1 (1040 words)

	ITV
		The ITV companies were contracted by the ITA to provide a local television service for their particular region, producing programmes such as a local news bulletin or documentary.
		The first ITV contractor to begin broadcasting was the London Weekday contractor Associated-Rediffusion, on 22 September 1955.
		The choice of the name "ITV plc" was controversial, since it could imply that the company runs the entire network, and an agreement had to be reached with SMG, UTV and Channel before the name could be used.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/i/it/itv.html (1659 words)

	itv - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		The ITV companies were required by the terms of their licences from the ITA to provide a local television service for their particular region, including a daily local news bulletin and regular local documentaries.
		No company lost its position as the local ITV contractor for their region and all licences were extended for another three years (starting July 1964), although several companies took the opportunity relaunch their on-screen identities and change business names and shareholdings.
		The auction element of the ITV franchising process was very controversial; the press and the existing ITV companies lobbied to have it changed and the ITC agreed to introduce a "quality threshold" to prevent high bidders with poor programme plans from joining the system.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/ITV (2899 words)

	ITV
		ITV was initially set up and regulated by the Independent Television Authority (ITA) which was created by the Television Act of 1954.
		From the 1990s, however, the restrictions on companies holding multiple franchises were lifted and as of early 2003 all the companies awarded franchises in 1991-2 have since been bought by either Granada or Carlton, with the exception of the contractors for Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the Channel Islands.
		ITV currently broadcasts three television channels: the terrestrial ITV service (currently dubbed ITV1), and two digital channels: ITV2[?] and ITV News.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/it/ITV_franchise.html (553 words)

	ITV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Most controversially, TWW lost its franchise for Wales and the West of England to Harlech Television, which soon became known as HTV.
		The legal name of the ITV network was changed to "Channel 3", although the network is still referred to as ITV by the general public.
		The relaxation in the franchise ownership rules as a result of the 1990 Act meant that mergers between ITV companies were now possible (even more after the Broadcasting Act 1996, which relaxed the rules even further).
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /ITV (2349 words)

	OFF THE TELLY: Features/ITV at 50/Ten Into Three
		For a time, there was a chance that the new ITV morning service would be run by TV-am, thanks to Bruce Gyngell moaning at the IBA, but this never came to pass (he would later repeat the trick with overnight ITV and Channel 4's breakfast programme, with a similar level of success).
		ITV was perhaps the most radical in that, after the limits on opening hours were lifted in 1972 (and again after the three-day week), it eschewed the frequent closedowns and Ceefax breaks of the BBC and stayed on air non-stop from morning until midnight.
		The obvious difference between ITV and the other broadcasters for much of its life was that, rather than being one company that looked the same wherever you were, it was instead 16 different outfits, all with their own ways of doing things and their own different identities.
	www.offthetelly.co.uk /features/itv/tendays.htm (4504 words)

	Devolution \| Inside TV
		The existing ITV services could be made into a single national channel, and moved onto another multiplex – this would also allow the amount of space ITV occupies on satellite to be decreased.
		ITV plc, with its regional commitment removed, would be no doubt keen to sell off some of its regional centres to the new franchise owners, or could even bid for some franchises itself.
		If a combined ITV plc was to decide it wanted to withdraw from regional broadcasting, there seems little hope of anyone taking their place as a company running a regional network with a national license.
	www.transdiffusion.org /emc/insidetv/regionalism/devolution.php (1057 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| TV and Radio \| ITV's big break
		ITV is now set to become a single media giant - yet just a few years ago it was a tightly-regulated group of 15 regional companies.
		ITV's launch was good news for television dealers, as viewers needed to pay for a tuner to add to their sets.
		ITV renamed its main channel ITV1 in 2001, the year it belatedly joined the Astra satellite used by Sky Digital.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/1229805.stm (1014 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| ITV faces down shareholder anger
		Shareholders in newly-merged ITV plc said at the firm's first AGM that a £15m ($27m) pay-off to Michael Green, ex-chairman of Carlton, was "obscene".
		As a new company, ITV has not published an annual report for 2003 and there will not be a resolution to approve the company accounts at the annual meeting.
		His attempt last year to become chairman of the combined ITV plc was blocked by shareholders, prompting his departure.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/3638579.stm (474 words)

	ITV - Uncyclopedia
		There are many people who believe that ITV is actually a secret plot by George Bush to lower the IQ of the British so that they might vote for him, when he eventually subverts Britain into joining the United States of America.
		ITV likes to give away chunks of its broadcast to other people so they can broadcast news and cheap programmes about local chavs, burned pubs and people who have thrown themselves off bridges.
		ITV region for Northern Scotland from 2005 to 2006.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/ITV (1524 words)

	wiki/ABC television Definition / wiki/ABC television Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		ABC Television or ABC Weekend TV was the British Independent Television (ITV) (commercial television) contractor on Saturdays and Sundays in the MidlandsThe midlands of a territory are its central regions.
		Franchise agreement - In government, franchise may also mean the granting of permission by a government to a service provider to use the public right-of-way.
		South: Southern, TVSTVS, or Television South, was the ITV franchise holder in the South of England which replaced its predecessor, Southern Television on the morning of 1 January 1982 (The first show was hosted by Khalid Aziz), and operated until midnight on 31 December 1992, when it was in turn replaced by Meridian Broadcasting.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/ABC_television (2625 words)

	screenonline: Dyke, Greg (1947-) Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		(ITV, 1982-89), which was to combine news from the region with light short film reports.
		The breakfast broadcaster had won its franchise with five celebrity presenters and its opening programmes were seen as rather 'high-brow'.
		Meanwhile, he took on the role of Head of ITV Sport, paying £11million to secure live and exclusive sport for the channel, with the idea that there would be a football super-league.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /people/id/1057641 (1600 words)

	ESPN.com Soccernet England: News - Granada turns sights on Italy
		The ITV franchise that is half-owner of ITV Digital is offering around £2m to oust Channel 4 for Italian highlights, an offer that will infuriate the 72 English clubs who feel ITV has reneged on their agreement.
		Administrators for the Granada-Carlton-owned ITV Digital agreed in the High Court yesterday to keep the struggling channel alive for another seven days to allow further talks with the League.
		ITV Digital has upped its £50million offer to the clubs to £62m and there is a suggestion it might be prepared to go to £100m.
	www.soccernet.com /england/news/2002/0416/20020416granadaitaly.html (255 words)

	The TV Room (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Associated British Picture Corporation, which owned the Midlands weekend ITV franchise (due to start broadcasting about six months later), wanted the name ABC for their ITV company, in keeping with the name of their cinema group.
		ATV was one of the greatest ITV stations ever to have held a franchise.
		This led to accusations that ATV was not fully committed to the Midlands, and those in the East Midlands were particularly vocal, and probably had a point, as the station's news output was evidently biased towards the much more easily covered West Midlands.
	www.thetvroom.com /p-itv-1-carlton-md-past-a.shtml (1209 words)

	BECTU response to ITC consultation on regional programming in ITV
		From its inception, the underlying rationale for ITV has been its regional character - in an otherwise seemingly unwieldy structure of 14 franchise regions, with additional sub-regions and opt-outs.
		We also note that ITV regional output continues to be popular with viewers, performing strongly in the ratings on a like-with-like basis.
		This trend is already undermining the regional nature of ITV by concentrating decision-making at group level and eroding genuine regional autonomy on programming issues.
	www.bectu.org.uk /policy/pol035.html (1028 words)

	LWT as BBC3 \| Behind the Screens
		The station, until the eighties, was also noted for being the unluckiest big ITV franchise, as its Saturday night schedule was routinely thrashed by BBC1 in the ratings, though critics were quick to point out The Crowther Collection was no match for Doctor Who.
		Throughout the late sixties, ITV was to become regarded as a more staid and unadventurous broadcaster than the BBC, which had shaken off its Auntie image in favour of showing daring sitcoms and challenging one off dramas, which contrasted with the safe and conservative programming on ITV.
		When the franchise for London weekends was decided in 1981, in complete contrast with the previous franchise round, LWT won because it had a proven track record in popular programming.
	www.transdiffusion.org /emc/behindthescreens/lwt-bbc3.php (2390 words)

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		S4C won the Welsh franchise, and Channel Four Television won the franchise for the rest of the UK.
		ITV Digital is now bankrupt, but has now been replaced by Freeview, run by the BBC.
		Granada and Carlton's regions lost their logos in 2002 when the dreaded celebrity idents were launched with a new 3D bevelled logo.
	members.lycos.co.uk /digifiend/DN/itv.html (367 words)

	screenonline: Hylton, Jack (1892-1965) Biography
		Both were born in 1892, and both were theatrical impresarios who moved into television with the inauguration of Independent Television (ITV) in 1955.
		But whereas Parnell became associated with variety shows that played a key role in ITV's success, Hylton was seen as being responsible for programmes that, owing to their poor production values, laid the new channel open to the charge of amateurism.
		A popular dance band leader of the 1920s and 1930s and latterly a theatrical impresario, Hylton (he changed the spelling of his name during his early teens), began his television career in July 1955.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /people/id/1146846 (654 words)

	SMG settles differences with ITV over digital rights
		Following the recent sale of the Scottish Media Group's (SMG) 25% GMTV stake to ITV plc, the two companies have reached an agreement on the use of the ITV brand name and the use by ITV plc of SMG's digital spectrum in Scotland.
		The agreement ensures ITV plc's rights to use the ITV name for the ITV plc corporate identity it adopted at the time of the merger of Granada plc and Carlton Communications plc - rights that SMG, along with the other ITV franchise holders UTV and Channel Television disputed.
		ITV plc currently uses this spectrum to broadcast its wholly-owned digital channels ITV2 and ITV News.
	www.4ni.co.uk /nationalnews.asp?id=29078 (429 words)

	Digital Spy - Television - Channel TV slams Carlton, Granada over ITV name
		Channel TV, the local ITV broadcaster for the Channel Islands, is currently in a dispute with the two media giants over their use of the ITV brand on ITV Digital and the ITV Sport channels.
		This is not the first time Carlton and Granada have found themselves being attacked by the smaller ITV franchise holders over their use of the ITV brand.
		Earlier this year, a settlement was reached with SMG over the use of the ITV brand in Scotland.
	www.digitalspy.co.uk /displayarticle.php?id=3683 (237 words)

	The Start of ITV
		In the days before TV-am, when the Test Card reigned supreme as most watched daytime programme, when parents sat down with their children to watch Play School instead of Richard and Judy, when "Engineering Announcements" was the first programme of the day.
		Southern were ITV franchise holders from the fifties until 1982.
		Channel Television is by far the smallest ITV region, and produces a unique local service.
	www.meldrum.co.uk /mhp/continuity/itv_start.html (737 words)

	TVfooty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The dispute involves the rights of regional ITV videotape technicians to edit football matches locally rather than having the games edited nationally.
		Although the "Superleague" idea is dropped (for now), ITV win exclusive rights to league football.
		ITV bosses are dismissive of smaller teams (“Keep death off the screen” – Trevor East)
	www.students.ncl.ac.uk /john.bourn/Page2.htm (556 words)

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