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  Yorkshire Television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yorkshire Television Limited is the ITV contractor for Yorkshire, England, and the surrounding areas.
Yorkshire Television was vocal in its disapproval of Thames Television's surprise poaching of Dallas from the BBC, and was successful in insisting Thames adhere to the rules of fair play.
Yorkshire Television was placed in charge of transmission control and presentation for all of Granada's stations in the North of England, with the creation of the Northern Transmission Centre.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yorkshire_Television   (1221 words)

  
 Tyne Tees Television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tyne Tees Television Limited is the ITV television contractor for North East England.
On 1 January 1974, Tyne Tees Television merged with its neighbour Yorkshire Television to form Trident Television Limited.
On 28 October 2002, Tyne Tees Television was rebranded as ITV1 Tyne Tees.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tyne_Tees_Television   (792 words)

  
 ITV
The "Independent Television" service, so-called because of its independence from the BBC (which previously had held a monopoly on broadcasting in the UK), was to be made up of regions, with each region run by different companies.
Thames was awarded the London Weekday licence previously held by Rediffusion.\n*London Weekend Television was awarded the London Weekend licence, replacing ATV.\n*Most controversially, TWW lost its franchise for Wales and the West of England to Harlech Television, which soon became known as HTV.
Television South West lost the South West England franchise to Westcountry Television.\n*Thames Television lost the London Weekday franchise to Carlton Television.
encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/i/it/itv.html   (1659 words)

  
 Yorkshire Television | Vision On
The Yorkshire opening routine devised in 1968 was the last of the old style ‘march start-ups’ though the piece itself was jaunty and dynamic, with a memorable melody.
They were involved in the planning of the first Yorkshire Television symbol and the visual similarity to the last ABC ident layout is evident.
Although Yorkshire Television was the ‘new boy’ of the major companies of the time (London Weekend being made up almost entirely of ex-Rediffusion staff) they carried on many of the traditions of presentation and were soon accepted into the fold of the 15 companies’ presentation departments.
www.transdiffusion.org /emc/visionon/yorkshire.php   (511 words)

  
 ITV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A new company, Yorkshire Television, was given the licence to broadcast in the newly created Yorkshire region.
Before the changes were implemented, Harold Wilson made the surprise move of sending Lord Hill to the chairmanship of the BBC Board of Governors and replacing him with Herbert Bowden, the Secretary of State for the Commonwealth Office, who was elevated to the peerage under the title Lord Aylestone.
Television South West and TVS attempted to obtain a judicial review of the ITC's decisions and of the wording of the 1990 Act.
www.objectsspace.com /encyclopedia/index.php/ITV   (3480 words)

  
 Yorkshire Television - Media UK
Broadcasting from Kirkstall Road in Leeds, Yorkshire Television is the ITV licence holder for Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and parts of north Norfolk.
It was the first to experiment with breakfast television; and, in the late 1980s, the first television station in the UK to go 24-hour - mainly with programmes provided by Music Box, a music channel.
Yorkshire's studios are also used for filming of Countdown, the popular television quiz.
www.mediauk.com /the_knowledge/i.muk/Yorkshire_Television   (406 words)

  
 Yorkshire | Ident
The first, Telefusion Yorkshire, was backed by the Blackpool-based Telefusion TV rental chain and was rolling in money - and prepared to splash it over the new company.
The second, Yorkshire Independent Television, was cash-strapped, but featured local people in management and had a large number of talented people - from floor managers to on-screen personalities - on its books.
Some people have been unable to detect the basis for Yorkshire Television’s daily opening march used 1968-1981 as being that famous Tyke’s hymn Ilkla’ Moor ba’ t’at.
www.transdiffusion.org /emc/ident/album/yorkshire.php   (872 words)

  
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The extent to which Yorkshire relied on Tonight for such a large proportion of regional programming can be illustrated, for example, by the dependence on the magazine to provide education and entertainment.
New Visions provided opportunities for students to have their work televised although the series’ scope was not extended to other young film makers who were no longer students.
Yorkshire was an enthusiastic contributor to various ‘...from Hell’ series - a new departure in style for this licensee - and continued to supply high quality children’s programmes.
www.ofcom.org.uk /static/archive/itc/uploads/Yorkshire_APR_text.doc   (1114 words)

  
 TV Ark : ITV : Yorkshire : Programmes
Yorkshire's long-running soap in it's original format, down on the farm.
Due to this a new puppeteer was brought in to operate Mooncat for the "Mooncat and Co" series.
Yorkshire TV came to the rescue with what I must say was an original idea, a chat show.
www.hackett.abelgratis.co.uk /yorkshire-progs.html   (549 words)

  
 Moving History
South and West Yorkshire have been traditionally defined by their industrial base, and much of the material in the Archive from that area features industrial subjects such as steel, mining and textiles.
In North Yorkshire cities and towns such as York, Ripon and Harrogate are featured, however, the majority of North Yorkshire has a rural base and much of the material for this part of the region covers rural and agricultural life in the areas of the Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors.
Yorkshire was also the base for pioneering film production centres such as The Sheffield Photo Company, Bamforth and Co. based in Holmfirth, the Riley Brothers, Pyramid Films and the Captain Kettle company, all based in Bradford.
www.movinghistory.ac.uk /archives/ya/collection.html   (1942 words)

  
 BBC - Look North Yorkshire and Lincolnshire - Christa
Previously, she was with Yorkshire Television for over a decade as presenter of its nightly programme, ‘Calendar’."Both Harry and I are passionate about Yorkshire and we try to bring this passion to the programme", Christa says.
The daughter of a policeman, she decided she wanted to be a journalist at the age of nine.
Christa has a fascination with the law and crime and it was while at Radio Aire that she was put in charge of reporting on the Yorkshire Ripper case.
www.bbc.co.uk /england/looknorthyorkslincs/christa.shtml   (465 words)

  
 Conspiracy of Silence
Yorkshire had a contract with the Discovery Channel to produce a documentary on the case for American television.
With the results of that test, the Yorkshire team was so convinced that Troy was telling the truth, that they featured him in their documentary.
At the time the Yorkshire TV team and the Discovery Channel were doing the documentary, they had no idea how high up the case would go into Government, and what major institutions and personalities in this country, would be found to be linked to the Franklin story.
www.propagandamatrix.com /141003conspiracyofsilence.html   (971 words)

  
 Y&R snapshot - Skillset   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
ITV Yorkshire, is one of the biggest ITV companies and the largest media employer in the Yorkshire and Humber region.
Yorkshire Television, based in Leeds, produced over 1,200 hours of programming in 2002.
Digital Industries is one of Yorkshire and Humber's high growth sectors with significant clusters emerging in South Yorkshire and Humber.
www.skillset.org /uk/yorkshire/article_1870_2.asp   (827 words)

  
 Kingston Communications - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Calendar News Extra, produced by Yorkshire Television's Hull-based newsteam, has won the Technical Innovation category at the BT National Media Awards.
Yorkshire Television's Calendar News Extra scooped the award as judges commented that it makes a serious attempt to exploit technological change to provide a truly local, audience-driven news service.
Yorkshire Television's Director of Programmes, Mike Best, says: "I genuinely believe that in Calendar News Extra, YTV and KIT are providing a news service that reflects the future of the industry - giving viewers the service when they want it, rather than when they are told they can have it."
www.kcom.com /news/articles/news_06_07_01_1.shtml   (528 words)

  
 The 101 Things that we Know and Love Television For
The Yorkshire Television yellow logo proved to be one of the scariest for some 1970's children, while the Thames logo, thanks to Kenny Everett leaping through it gave some of us the fright of our lives.
She became an institution, an even though her appearances on television were limited to night times and early mornings in the 1980's, due to the advent of daytime television.
In 1968, Rediffusion and ABC merged to become Thames Television, HTV replaced TWW in Wales and the west, Yorkshire Television was created and LWT began in London at the weekends.
www.webspawner.com /users/asperger/britishtv101.html   (11267 words)

  
 SonicBreakdown: Wikipedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
ITV (or iTV) can also mean interactive television, white Independent Television may also be used in reference to the i network in the United States.
In June 2005, Ofcom, the channel's regulator since the demise of the Independent Television Commission announced huge reductions in the licence fees payable by the Channel 3 contractors (and Five).
While Scottish Television, Grampian Television, and UTV aired the network ITV50 programming, they did not themselves air regional ITV50 programmes, nor did they use the special identification.
www.sonicbreakdown.com /wikiSearch.do?title=ITV   (4116 words)

  
 Yorkshire Bach Choir
Although much of Yorkshire Bach Choir's work focuses on music of the 17th and 18th centuries, its repertoire extends backwards to 16th century polyphony and forwards to newly commissioned works.
Other recordings by Yorkshire Bach Choir include a Festal Mass from the Imperial Court of Vienna and the six Bach Motets, which both received excellent reviews.
Yorkshire Bach Choir received generous financial support from Arts Council of England, National Federation of Music Societies, and Yorkshire Arts (with funds provided by the Arts Council of England).
music.york.ac.uk /ensembles/guest/yorkshire_bach_choir   (786 words)

  
 TV Ark : ITV Yorkshire : Main
These were only seen in the Yorkshire Region to introduce programmes.
Version 2 is the re-edit that has the chevron moving to the center and ITV disappearing.
During 1999 Yorkshire introduced a set of new idents, used for continuity into local programmes, such as Calendar.
www.hackett.abelgratis.co.uk /yorkshire-main.html   (292 words)

  
 After dinner speaker Stephen Smith
He is a regular on the After-Dinner Circuit and has made numerous appearances on television and radio, including Calendar for Yorkshire Television, Look North for the BBC, The Trisha Show for Anglia Television and This Morning with Richard and Judy.
He has appeared at the prestigious Yorkshire Post Literary Luncheon with Jonathan Dimbleby and broadcasts regularly on radio for BBC Radio Derby with the celebrated broadcaster John Holmes, BBC Radio Sheffield with Tony Capstick and a legal phone-in on BBC Radio Leeds with Peter Levy.
Steve is also a regular contributor to programmes on Yorkshire Television and has been featured regularly on the 'Tonight' and 'Calendar' programmes.
www.nyt.co.uk /stephen.smith.htm   (548 words)

  
 BITC - Yorkshire Television - Foundation Placement Scheme   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The management of Yorkshire Television (YTV) had been aware, over a number of years, of the lack of ethnic minority representation in its workforce.
It was felt this would be large scale enough to create an immediate impact on the look and feel of the company, heighten staff awareness on diversity issues in both on and off screen areas of the business.
YTV set out to build relationships with key external partners, including PATH (Yorkshire), The Fair Play Partnership and Screen Yorkshire, to help with recruiting and supporting the programme and external trainers were brought in to provide training for managers involved in implementing the scheme.
www.bitc.org.uk /resources/case_studies/d_137_ytv.html   (404 words)

  
 sociology - ITV
The original 'ITV' channel has now been rebranded as ITV1 by ITV plc (the operator of the "Channel 3" franchises in England and Wales).
These changes led to industrial unrest in the ITV companies, culminating strike action as the new companies came on air and the replacement, for most of August 1968, of the regional network with an ITV Emergency National Service run by management.
The new nationwide breakfast television service was awarded to TV-am with a provisional start date of May 1983
www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/ITV   (2914 words)

  
 YORKSHIRE TELECINE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It is very convenient to run film on television at 25 fps to match the television frame rate in Europe, and film for TV will be shot at 25 fps.
Television uses a cunning trick to apparently reduce frame flicker.
Now that prints are rarely made for television, and digital sound recording has become reliable and cheap, sound synchronisation will usually use timecode.
www.glass-artist.co.uk /telecine/ursa.html   (2709 words)

  
 Cassie Gravelle - Summary of Acting Roles - Television
This is the fourth series to be made by Yorkshire Television.
"Emmerdale:" Made by Yorkshire Television, this soap-opera tells the story of country-folk in the Yorkshire Dales.
Starring David Jason, and made by Yorkshire Television.
www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~coyote01/cassie/htm/acttv.htm   (161 words)

  
 Rising Damp
Rossiter had first demonstrated his impeccable coming timing in the same role (though under the name Rooksby) in the one-off stage play Banana Box, from which the television series was derived.
The success of the television series led to a film version in 1980, but this met with mixed response, lacking the conciseness and sharpness of the television series and also lacking the presence of Beckinsale, who had tragically died of a heart attack at the age of 31 the previous year.
Rossiter himself went on to star in the equally popular series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin before his own premature death from heart failure in 1984.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/R/htmlR/risingdamp/risingdamp.htm   (429 words)

  
 TV Interview for Yorkshire Television Woman to Woman | Margaret Thatcher Foundation
I mean to go to things which you see on television which were a dream in your mind from a child.
So often I think that people sit their children in front of television when they come home from school and they have got to get them a meal and the telephone is going and then you have got to get supper and you do not talk to them.
Do you know the most important thing with a family is to have time for them, to talk to them, to listen to their problems.
www.margaretthatcher.org /archive/displaydocument.asp?docid=105830   (13503 words)

  
 Yorkshire TV installs the DNS1000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
CEDAR Audio Ltd is pleased to announce that Yorkshire Television has installed a DNS1000 Dynamic Noise Suppressor
Yorkshire Television, established in 1968, is one of the largest ITV companies with over 1,200 hours of programming produced each year.
Before purchasing the DNS1000, Yorkshire Television tested one by cleaning up general location noise, lighting interference, and camera whistles on Heartbeat and Where the Heart Is.
www.cedar-audio.com /news/yorkshiretv.html   (162 words)

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