It has been filmed in Castlefield, Manchester at the Granada Studios since its inception.

Since first being aired, it has been one of the most financially lucrative programmes on British commercial television, underpinning the success of its broadcaster ITV and its franchise Granada Television.

ITV television has been available on parts of the east of the Isle of Man on 3rd May 1956 when Granada Television transmissions started from the Winter Hill transmitting station, and to parts of the west of the island on 1st October 1959 from the Black Mountain transmitting station in Northern Ireland which broadcast Ulster Television.

The lake has a history of Caribbean pirates who assaulted nearby Granada on three occasions.

Much of Nicaragua's politics since independence has been characterized by the rivalry between the liberal elite of León and the conservative elite of Granada.

When used as a historical period in traditional Spanish and Portuguese historiography, the term Reconquista has often been used to refer to a period extending from 718 ( or 722 according to other sources ) to 1492, when the last remaining Islamic state in Iberia, the Emirate of Granada, was defeated.

Granada is also well-known within Spain for the prestigious University of Granada which has about 80, 000 students spread over five different campuses in the city.

The region surrounding Granada has been populated by Iberians from at least the 8th century B. C.

On the site of present day Granada there seems to have existed a Roman settlement, but no definitive proof has been found.

The fall of Granada has a significant place among the important events that mark the latter half of the Spanish 15th century.

The sound of strumming guitars may still be heard there in the performance of flamenco cantes and " quejíos ", so that over time it has become one of the most popular tourist attractions in Granada.

The city of Granada has a significant number of parks and gardens with many historic and popular entailments, between these natural areas are the following:

Granada has three football teams:

Granada has a basketball team:

The school has links with many local theatres and television companies, such as Granada and the BBC.

On several occasions, Chavez has claimed that Bolívar was in fact poisoned by " New Granada traitors ".

In the first part, the events which led to the downfall of Granada are related with uncommon brilliancy, and Pérez de Hita's sympathetic transcription of life at the Emir's court has clearly suggested the conventional presentation of the picturesque, chivalrous Moor in the pages of Mlle de Scudéry, Mme de Lafayette, Châteaubriand and Washington Irving.

Puleva: originally founded in Granada in 1910, the company has been a subsidiary of the Lactalis group since 2001.

The Granada Health Science Technological Park has created some high-skilled jobs in the biotechnology sector.

He and his parents and sister moved to the neighborhood of Granada Hills, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, which has a large Jewish population.

The Granada name, as with those of the other former Channel 3 regional licence holders, has completely disappeared except for the regional news bulletins and weeknightly regional news magazine as ITV Broadcasting Limited operates the service with national ITV branding and continuity.

The Granada name was shown before regional programmes, but this has ceased and it has vanished from screens as have all other ITV regional identities.

Granada Television has introduced many broadcasters and television personalities to British television and had a number of directors, producers and writers who have formed their own production companies.

Dyke attracted criticsm when he " forgot " to sell an equity stake in Granada Television, which presented a conflict of interest in his new position.

Among the disciples attracted by his preaching and saintly reputation were Saint Teresa of Ávila, Saint John of God, Saint Francis Borgia and the Venerable Louis of Granada.

His radio work attracted the attention of producers at Granada Television who hired him, at age twenty-four, to be a script editor on their long-running soap opera Coronation Street.

The establishment of Granada Television based in the city attracted much of the production talent from the studios and continued Manchester's tradition of cultural innovation, often with its trademark social radicalism in its programming.

The tour attracted over 5 million visitors, but visitor numbers were waning by the late 1990s and Granada Television had to prioritise other economic problems such as the failure of ONdigital.

The rebrand was not without controversy as SMG plc ( owner of Scottish Television and Grampian Television ), UTV and Channel Television all pointed out that the ITV brand did not belong solely to Carlton and Granada.

In the end, the union between Panama and the Republic of New Granada ( under its various names United States of Colombia 1863 – 1886 and the Republic of Colombia since 1886 ) was made possible by the active participation of U. S. A. under the 1846 Bidlack Mallarino treaty until 1903.

According to some historians, Granada was a tributary state to the Kingdom of Castile since that year.

Granada is the only franchise to remain an ITV contractor since creation in 1954.

The populous area of Wales in the South were already being served by TWW, which had begun broadcasting in 1958, while the north-east of the country and much of the north coast was served by the North of England franchise, Granada and ABC, operating since 1956 ; the interior of north Wales could not receive ITV transmissions at all.

Previously it was held by Granada Television which was founded by Sidney Bernstein and based at Granada Studios since its inception, and which was the only surviving company out of the original four Independent Television Authority franchisees from 1954 before it merged with Carlton Communications to form ITV plc in 2004.

David Plowright, who had worked at Granada since 1957, resigned in 1992 citing the arrival of Gerry Robinson who tightened the departmental budget with an uncompromising business approach.

* Lucy Meacock is Granada news presenter since 1988 and occasional presenter for the ITV national news.

In the 19 BAFTA Awards for the Best Drama series awarded since 1992, Granada Television has won five in total, Cracker twice in 1994 and 1995, Cold Feet in 2002 and The Street in 2007 and 2008 – more than any other production company.

Produced by Granada Television and filmed at Granada Studios in Manchester since its inception, University Challenge aired for 913 episodes on ITV from 1962 to 1987, presented by quiz master Bamber Gascoigne.

Even though national coverage is produced by ITN, it has no role in the regional coverage provided for each individual ITV region's newsroom with the exception of ITV London, which it has run since March 2004 following its acquisition of the London News Network, a company previously owned by the now merged Carlton and Granada.

Tyne Tees has been based on the Gateshead bank of the River Tyne, just south of the mouth of the River Derwent, North East England | River Derwent, since July 2005. The complex continued until 2004 following the merger of Granada and Carlton to form ITV plc.

( Quito had been in the Viceroyalty of New Granada since the separation that colony from Peru in 1739.

The series was also broadcast in the UK on BBC1 and has since been repeated on BBC2 and ITV ( later named ITV1 ) and also on Granada + Plus, which later became ITV3, although none of these channels repeated the later seasons.

These tactics had been used since antiquity, for example, in the Granada War, the conquest of the Canary Islands and conquest of Navarre.

The Up Series is a series of documentary films produced by Granada Television that have followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when they were seven years old.

The 2, 112 cc diesel engine would also find its way into the Ford Granada since Ford did not at the time produce a sufficient volume of diesel sedans in this class to justify the development of their own diesel engine.

Despite claiming such a role since 1813, he began to achieve this only in 1817, and consolidated his hold on power after his dramatic and unexpected victory in New Granada in 1819.

With Venezuela pacified, plans were quickly made to subdue neighboring New Granada, and the bulk of the troops moved to the coastal city of Santa Marta, which had remained in royalist hands since 1810.

Central New Granada held great promise since, unlike Venezuela, it had only been recently conquered by Morillo and it had a prior six-year experience of independent government.