The first system, ITV Digital, went into liquidation in 2002.

ITV Digital was a British digital terrestrial television broadcaster, which launched a pay-TV service on the world's first digital terrestrial television network.

Started as ONdigital in 1998, the network was briefly re-branded as ITV Digital in July 2001, before the service ceased in May 2002.

ITV Digital did not update this system, therefore it was very easy for people to produce and sell counterfeit subscription cards which would give access to all the channels.

Canal + brought a lawsuit against News Corporation alleging that they, with the help of NDS, had been working on breaking the MediaGuard smartcards used by Canal +, ITV Digital and other non-Murdoch-owned TV companies throughout Europe.

In desperation at the churn rate, Carlton and Granada turned to their most valuable asset-the ITV brand-and on 11 July 2001 rebranded ONdigital as ITV Digital.

A massive re-branding campaign was launched to support the new naming, with customers even being sent ITV Digital stickers to place over the existing ONdigital logos on their remote controls and set top boxes.

SMG and UTV initially refused to carry the advertising campaign for ITV Digital and did not allow the ITV Sports Channel space on their multiplex, meaning that it was not available at launch in most of Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The case was resolved in Scotland, and the Channel Islands and later still in Northern Ireland, allowing the ITV Sport Channel to launch in the non-Carlton and Granada regions ( although it was never made available in the Channel Islands, as the islands do not have DTT or Cable and it never appeared on Sky Digital ).

A replica knitted monkey could be obtained by signing up to ITV Digital.

At one time, original ITV Digital Monkeys were fetching several hundred pounds on eBay, and even knitting patterns delivered by email were sold for several pounds.

Indeed, the cost of the Football League deal proved one too many a burden for ITV Digital, and it was placed into administration on 27 March 2002, after the League refused to accept a £ 130m pay cut in its £ 315m deal with the ITV Sport Channel.

Most subscription channels ceased broadcasting on ITV Digital on 1 May 2002.

The League then filed a negligence claim against its lawyers for failing to press for a written guarantee at the time of the deal with ITV Digital.

Had the move been successful, this could have threatened to undermine the fledgling Freeview service, since at the time most digital terrestrial receivers were former ONdigital and ITV Digital units.

Following the administration in 2002, the three multiplexes that were run by ITV Digital remained blank until a week or so before Freeview's launch.

Most of the original ITV Digital channel placeholders and Logical Channel Numbers were kept until Freeview's replaced them, leaving large gaps between channels.

ITV Digital operated out of Marco Polo House, the south London building home to shopping channel QVC and which had once housed The Observer newspaper, but perhaps most famous as the lavish headquarters of the ill-fated British Satellite Broadcasting.

ITV Digital had call centres located in Pembroke Dock, Plymouth and used outsourced BT call centres in Cork, Republic of Ireland and Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Freeview officially launched on 30 October 2002 at 5 am when the BBC and Crown Castle ( now Arqiva ) officially took over the digital terrestrial television ( DTT ) licences to broadcast on the three multiplexes from the defunct ITV Digital ( originally called ONdigital ).

The name distinguishes the service from cable, Sky Digital and the former ITV Digital, digital TV services.

The anniversary was also constructed by a number of ITV specials and news broadcasts.

It also features in an ITV Tyne Tees programme Diary of an Island which started on 19 April 2007 and on a DVD of the same name.

He also starred as property dealer Tom Craig in ITV drama Muck and Brass, and guest starred on The Goodies episode " Animals ".

* Paramount also owns ( through the Viacom merger ) US distribution rights to the 1951 film The African Queen, originally distributed by United Artists ( the international rights are with ITV Global Entertainment ).

Until recently it was also common practice for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 to repeat classic shows from their archives, but this has more or less dried up in favor of newer ( and cheaper ) formats like reality shows, except on the BBC where older BBC shows, especially sitcoms like Dad's Army and Fawlty Towers, are frequently repeated.

There are also bachelor's and master's programs via ENMU's Instructional Television System ( ITV ).

In 2001 ITV also launched a new early-evening serial entitled Night and Day.

Some guides, such as ITV, also feature backward scrolling to promote their catch-up content.

They also ( in a very expensive deal ) purchased the TV rights to the Football League and launched the ITV Sport Channel.

Three Cliffs Bay also made the final of the ITV series Britain's Favourite View – the only nomination in Wales and backed by singer Katherine Jenkins.

In 1967 he played a spoof super-hero Captain Fantastic ( and also other roles ), in the children's television sketch comedy series Do Not Adjust Your Set ( Rediffusion London / ITV ).

These include Skullion in Porterhouse Blue ( for Channel 4 ), Sidney " Pop " Larkin in the rural idyll The Darling Buds of May ( Yorkshire Television / ITV ) and based on the H. E. Bates novel, which also featured the then unknown Catherine Zeta-Jones.

ITV is not owned by one company, but rather by a series of regional companies that provide a regional service while also broadcasting programmes across the network.

The group also owns ITV Studios, the production arm of the company and formed from an amalgamation of all the production departments of the regional licenses they own.

Gay scenes from Britain's ITV serial drama Coronation Street ( also based in the city ) were filmed around Canal Street.

In 1980 he played the Funny Uncle in a dramatisation of the John Betjeman poem " Indoor Games Near Newbury ", part of an ITV special titled Betjeman's Britain that also starred Peter Cook and Susannah York.

They also appeared together recalling their music hall days in a one-hour special on ITV on 2 March 1983, called Eric & Ernie's Variety Days.

The BBC was not alone in this practice – the commercial companies that formed its main rival ITV also wiped videotapes and destroyed telerecordings, leaving gaps in their archive holdings.

The former ITV company Thames Television also has a significant library.

* The bridge is also used as a backdrop on The West Country Tonight-a regional news programme broadcast by ITV West from their Bristol studios.

McGann's breakthrough role was Give us a Break devised by Geoff McQueen who also created the long running ITV series, The Bill.

He also hosted additional series for ITV in 1964, 1966 and 1967.

It also manufactured broadcast television cameras for British television production companies, mostly the BBC, although the commercial television ITV companies used them as well alongside cameras made by Pye and Marconi.

During the 2000s Mills hosted several shows on VH1. He also present ed a very late night / early morning ITV show called the haunted fish tank. A clip show featuring his humorous take on TV and music videos of the day.