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For 50 years, Coronation Street has remained at the centre of ITV's prime time schedule.

The programme is currently shown in the UK in five episodes, over three evenings a week on ITV.

From Friday 9 December 1960 until Friday 3 March 1961, the programme was shown in two episodes broadcast Wednesday and Friday at 19: 00.

Schedules were changed and from Monday 6 March 1961 until Wednesday 11 October 1989, the programme was shown in two episodes broadcast Monday and Wednesday at 19: 30.

The third weekly episode was introduced on Friday 20 October 1989, broadcast at 19: 30.

From 1996, an extra episode was broadcast at 19: 30 on Sunday nights.

Aside from Granada, the programme originally appeared on the following stations of the ITV network: Anglia Television, Associated-Rediffusion, Television Wales and the West, Scottish Television, Southern Television and Ulster Television.

From episode 14 on Wednesday 25 January 1961, Tyne Tees Television broadcast the programme.

That left ATV in the Midlands as the only ITV station not carrying the show.

When they decided to broadcast the programme, national transmission was changed from Wednesday and Friday at 19: 00 to Monday and Wednesday at 19: 30 and the programme became fully networked under this new arrangement from episode 25 on Monday 6 March 1961.