* Most controversially, TWW lost its franchise for Wales and the West of England to Harlech Television, which soon became known as HTV.

Although not widely known, it has been reported that in 2000, amid takeovers of the other licensees by Carlton, Granada and SMG, Channel Television had plans to buy HTV, valuing the company at £ 450 million.

The sequence featured clips from various films and Disney cartoons, backed by a funky jazz number known as " Atomic Butterfly " ( which also seems to have been used for Sports Arena, an HTV Wales sports programme in the early 1970s ).

After a brief spell at Southern Television, he became well known as an in-vision announcer for Thames Television from 1976, also announcing during this period for ATV, and HTV West and presenting a weekend show on BBC Radio 2.

Also, students are able to assume the roles of professionals and direct their own news-broadcasting channel known as HTV.

A version ran for two series from June 6, 1991 to September 20, 1992 with Paul Coia as host, but only aired in the HTV West ITV region.

Before the launch of S4C, Welsh-speakers had been served by occasional programmes in Welsh broadcast as regional opt-outs on BBC Wales and HTV Cymru Wales ( the ITV franchise in Wales ), usually at off-peak or inconvenient times.

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 recent years, changes in rules concerning media ownership enabled Carlton to buy out many of the other ITV stations, including Central Independent Television, Westcountry, and part of HTV ( via Granada ), as well as the rights to the archives of ITC Entertainment and its former sister company ATV, and the Rank film archive.

The children's department also spawned the independent production company Tetra Films, which would later revive some classic Thames children's programmes for ITV – The Tomorrow People ( 1992-5, in association with Thames-owned Reeves Entertainment for ITV and Nickelodeon ) and Rainbow ( 1994 / 96, for HTV )-along with a range of original film and television productions.

Created by Richard Carpenter, it was produced by HTV in association with Goldcrest, and ran from 1984 to 1986 on the ITV network.

This led to criticism in some quarters that the larger of the remaining ' regional ' ITV companies, such as TVS, Anglia, STV, Tyne Tees and HTV, found it difficult to get network access for their grander productions, or that they were left with softer non-primetime sectors, such as children's and religious television.

Other ITV regions also screened Shortland Street at their own pace, usually during daytime although some ( HTV and Granada ) followed Central's early-evening example for a short time.

From January 2003, the Carlton-owned ITV regions including Central, Westcountry, HTV and Carlton-London networked Shortland Street in an afternoon slot, 1430 – 1500, Monday to Wednesday, with a Thursday episode added a few months later.

Children of the Stones is a television drama for children produced by HTV in 1976 and broadcast on the United Kingdom's ITV network in January and February 1977.

It was produced by HTV and broadcast on the ITV Network, following a pilot episode on 7 August 1993, between 24 July 1994 and 5 July 1998.

However, this changed with the launch of S4C on 1 November 1982 as all Welsh programming on both the BBC and the ITV contractor HTV was transferred to the new channel.

* Some regions showed later episodes in an early evening timeslot of 17: 10, such as HTV from 1995, the region concluding the series on 5 March 1999 ( the last ITV region to complete the series ), and also Granada Television from 1994 until they aired the last episode during the autumn of 1996.

UNM was required to sell its stake in Yorkshire-Tyne Tees as part of the merger, giving Granada control, but the next year it was permitted to add a third ITV franchise to its holdings, HTV, the broadcaster for Wales and the West Country.

A British version of Definition aired on the ITV network from 1978 until about 1986 produced by HTV West and was originally hosted by Don Moss and then by the late Jeremy Beadle.

Nearly all the remaining ITV companies completed the series in late 1988 or early 1989 except for HTV, TSW and Scottish Television which took until 1993 to complete the series.

The region's ITV franchisees, Granada Television ( weekdays only until 1968 ) and ABC Television ( Associated British Corporation ) weekends ( launched in 1956 ), were on air much earlier than North Wales ' franchisee, WWN ( Teledu Cymru ) which launched in 1962 ( subsequently HTV Wales ) giving viewers more choice than they would with the Welsh transmissions.

He also wrote travel books, including A Traveller in Turkey, The Independent Traveller's guide to Turkey and A Dry Ship to the Mountains ( Down the Volga and Across the Caucasus in My Father's Footsteps ), the book version of the children's TV series The Clifton House Mystery ( produced by HTV West for ITV in 1978 ), and an appreciation of " Marie Lloyd and music hall " and a recollection of " Soho in the Fifties " ( a time and a place in which he had found one of his few natural homes ).

* ITV Wales & West, formerly Harlech Television or HTV, television broadcaster for Wales and the West of England

In 1970, Cash wrote and performed The Radio Programme, a twenty-six part sitcom / music show produced at HTV and sold to the ITV network, NBC, and stations across Europe.

Other roles include the lead in The Borderers ( BBC, 1968-70 ), Tom Brown's Schooldays ( BBC, 1971 ) ( as Thomas Arnold ), The Stone Tape ( BBC, 1972 ), Sutherland's Law ( BBC, 1973-76 ), Children of the Stones ( HTV / ITV, 1977 ), and Danger UXB ( Thames Television / ITV, 1979 ), The House With Green Shutters ( BBC, 1980 ).

At the time the fourth service was being considered, a movement in Wales lobbied for the creation of dedicated service that would air Welsh-language programmes, then only catered for at ' off peak ' times on BBC Wales and HTV.

* Once Upon a Forest ( 1993, theatrical feature, co-produced with HTV Cymru / Wales, distributed by 20th Century Fox )

In the mid to late 1970s, the Welsh television station HTV Cymru / Wales broadcast a version dubbed into the Welsh language.

* May 20 – Harlech ( which became HTV in 1970 ) starts its dual service for Wales and the West Country, replacing the interim ITSWW, which had replaced TWW.

Up until 2009, S4C ran its own teletext service, Sbectel (, Welsh for " a peek " or " a glimpse ", and a reference to an S4C schedule insert formerly included in the TV Times issues for the HTV Wales region.

Following TWW's loss of contract, the Teledu Cymru name was once again utilised by the Independent Television Service for Wales and the West that ran the franchise until HTV could begin broadcasting.

Following the intervention of the ITA, a temporary service was set up — Independent Television Service for Wales and the West, broadcasting from the old TWW Pontcanna studios in Cardiff, and staffed by former TWW workers, until Harlech ( soon renamed " HTV ") was ready to take over its franchise early, on 20 May 1968.

Parts of North Wales can receive only the Winter Hill transmissions ( i. e. Granada ) rather than HTV.

The 2 April 1977 show was a landmark edition, as part of the programme was broadcast outside the Midlands for the first time, on HTV Cymru Wales and HTV West, filling up their ' round-the-regions ' compilation of Saturday morning programmes called Ten On Saturday.

UNM then went on to purchase Wales and West broadcaster, HTV in 1996, while Carlton purchased Westcountry Television later that year.

Although Westcountry was in Plymouth, transmission for the channel was run by HTV Wales staff at HTV's presentation centre in Culverhouse Cross, Cardiff with continuity announcers based at the Plymouth studios.

Both " HTV West " and " HTV Wales " stayed with their then-current idents ; however upon Carlton's purchase, the animated introduction and music to the idents were replaced by the sequences and audio in use with Carlton's graphical package.

The HTV regions were re-branded ITV1 Wales and ITV1 West of England in 2002.

However, only three years later, all the high-bidding licensees – including HTV which had virtually bankrupted itself to put forward a massive £ 25 million bid to win the Wales and West licence – were allowed to reduce their licence payments in some cases by more than half.

In 1996, the HTV shares were sold off to the Wales and West contractor's future owners United News and Media.

The exception to this process of merging is Wales, which used to be part of a larger Wales / West ( of England ) version, mirroring the HTV region.