The term webcasting was coined ( in the early / mid 1990s ) when webcast / streaming pioneers Mark Cuban ( Audionet ), Howard Gordon ( Xing Technologies ), William Mutual ( ITV. net ), Craig Schmieder ( Applied Media Resources ) and Peggy Miles ( InterVox Communications ) got together with a community of webcasters to pick a term to describe the technology of sending audio and video on the Net … that might make sense to people.

Throughout these storylines ITV used elaborate trailers using the phrase ' Killer Corrie ' which later was used to describe other storylines.

She has also made a number of guest appearances on television, including Agatha Christie's Marple on ITV ( playing Betty Johnson alongside Brian Conley in the episode By the Pricking of My Thumbs, February 2006 ), The Catherine Tate Show ( late 2006 ), Supermarket Sweep with Dale Winton ( February 2007 ) and the children's programme Hider in the House ( March 2007 ).

Elizabeth " Betty " Williams ( née Preston, previously Turpin ) is a long-standing fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street, portrayed by former music hall star Betty Driver.

In 2007, Liverpool Daily Post editor Larry Neild was selected to join Liverpool's ' Health is Wealth ' commission, researching the effects of food deprivation on poor health, after writing a scathing column in which he suggested that the commission ’ s chairman, Sue Woodward, chief executive of ITV Granada, should set a good example in Coronation Street by banning Betty ’ s hotpot.

Patsy Rowlands ( 19 January 1931 – 22 January 2005 ) was an English actress who is best remembered for her roles in the Carry On films, as Betty in the popular ITV Thames sitcom Bless This House, and as Alice Meredith in the Yorkshire Television sitcom Hallelujah !.

From 1971 to 1976, she played Betty, the feckless neighbour in the popular ITV sitcom Bless This House, which starred fellow Carry On star Sid James.

* Elizabeth " Betty " Eagleton ( née Pendagast ) is a fictional character on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale played by Paula Tilbrook.

The Rovers Return is the pub in Coronation Street, the British soap broadcast on ITV.

ITV launched the new soap opera The Royal Today in 2008.

Since 1996, part of the house's grounds have been used as the Beckindale village in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale, which had been based in two different Yorkshire villages since its inception 24 years earlier.

Otley is " Hotton " in the ITV television soap opera Emmerdale, and appears in ITV's Heartbeat where Otley Courthouse is the old Police Station.

On 16 December 2010, Granada announced it would move to the Orange Building in MediaCityUK alongside the University of Salford and a studio to produce the ITV flagship soap opera Coronation Street, would be built on the opposite bank of the ship canal on Trafford Wharf.

That same year Rossi and Parfitt made cameo appearances in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street in a storyline which involved them being sued by the notorious layabout Les Battersby, and performing live at his wedding as compensation.

* Katherine Kelly ( 1980 – present ) Actress, plays Becky Granger in ITV soap opera Coronation Street

In 1988, ITV decided to use Auf Wiedersehen, Pet against EastEnders, the BBC's twice-weekly soap that had grown considerably in popularity since its launch in 1985.

General Hospital is a British daytime soap opera produced by ATV which ran on ITV from 1972 to 1979.

He has recently appeared as the undertaker Archie Shuttleworth in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street

In 2001, she had a recurring role in the ITV prison drama series Bad Girls before appearing in the short-lived revival of the soap opera Crossroads.

TOTP was traditionally shown on a Thursday night, but was moved to a Friday starting on 14 June 1996, originally at 7 pm, but then shifted to 7. 30 pm, a change which placed the programme up against the hugely popular soap opera, Coronation Street, on ITV.

The following year, Robbins joined the cast of the ITV soap opera Crossroads, playing the part of a pop singer who was recording a single in the fictional motel's basement recording studio.

McCutcheon performed in an Art Plus fundraising event at the Whitechapel Art Gallery opposite Natalie Press, Samantha Morton and Rhys Ifans and in January 2008 she starred alongside actor Jason Donovan, in the ITV soap Echo Beach as character Susan Penwarden.

His first credited television appearance was in 1986, playing Graham Lodsworth in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale Farm ( now Emmerdale ).

In February 2010, he appeared in the British soap ( broadcast on the ITV network ) Coronation Street playing the charming male escort Lewis Archer, who woos Audrey Roberts.

The BBC Television Service ( renamed " BBC tv " in 1960 ) showed popular programming, including drama, comedies, documentaries, game shows, and soap operas, covering a wide range of genres and regularly competed with ITV to become the channel with the highest ratings for that week.

She got her big break as a nurse in an ITV afternoon soap opera of the 1970s, General Hospital.

It started in February 1980 as an ITV daytime soap opera, and was dropped by the network in 1993, although various members of the ITV Network ( notably Border Television and Central Television ) continued to screen the programme, while others ( such as Yorkshire Television and Carlton Television ) had no interest in doing so.

ITV wished to have a Scottish soap for its daytime line up.

Unfortunately, at the time the only soap made by STV was Garnock Way, which English ITV companies had no interest in, as they wished to have a soap, in their words, “ with Scotch Lochs, Hills and purple heather ” more tartan feel to the show.

In late 1979, ( partly because of an ITV strike at the time ) Garnock Way was axed and production started on a new soap.

Take the High Road helped STV to produce the only soap for the ITV network which was not made by the " Big Five " companies.

In January and February 2010 Campbell competed in and won the ITV talent show Popstar to Operastar, in which eight pop stars were trained to perform world-famous opera arias.

He then moved on to become Head of Drama at the independent production company Pearson Television, where he oversaw work on ITV police drama The Bill and another soap opera, Channel 5's Family Affairs, which he created, and was Executive Producer on C5's legal drama series, the BAFTA nominated Wing And A Prayer.

Arncliffe was the original setting for the fictional village of Beckindale in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale Farm, from its inception in 1972 until the relocation to Esholt.

* Belle Dingle, a fictional character from the ITV soap opera Emmerdale

Conversely, the aspiration of pop singers to develop the stamina, musicality and charisma for opera singing was exploited in 2010 in the ITV television series aired in the UK, Popstar to Operastar, won by Darius Campbell.

He subsequently became involved in the establishment of the ITV northern franchise holder Yorkshire Television, becoming the company's first Director of Programmes and overseeing the creation of popular hits such as the soap opera Emmerdale Farm ( from 1972 ). Despite being ensconced in Yorkshire, Baverstock did attempt to returning to Wales and applied for the vacant post of Controller BBC Wales.

Jack Morris Rosenthal CBE ( 8 September 1931-29 May 2004 ) was an English playwright, who wrote 129 early episodes of the ITV soap opera Coronation Street and over 150 screenplays, including original TV plays, feature films, and adaptations.

* The British actress Katherine Kelly, best known for her role as Becky McDonald in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street, is the daughter of John Kelly, who originally hails from Castleisland.

As a writer, she began working for Granada Television in the 1980s, writing for their hugely popular soap opera Coronation Street, the most watched programme on the ITV network.

On 6 December 2006, NTL announced that it had complained to the Office of Fair Trading about BSkyB's move, and that it would withdraw its attempt to buy ITV plc, stating that it did not believe that it could currently make a deal on favourable terms.

Towards the end of his tenure as ITV plc executive chairman, Michael Grade began dismantling the ITV regional layout, stating the existence of ITV Border " no longer makes sense " relative to the regional audience it serves.

Another famous line regularly heard during Ron's 1990s ITV football pundit work was exclaiming in disbelief at a miss, stating " you would have put your mortgage on him ( the player ) scoring there ".

NTL also completed matters by stating it would be reluctant to see any of Flextech's channels in the hands of terrestrial broadcasters such as ITV or Five.

" ITV series editor Louise Sutton commented on the storyline stating that: " The decision amongst teenagers to declare themselves chaste until marriage is hugely popular in the States.