When ITV did return, its first evening schedule included a special " catch-up " edition of Coronation Street, in which storylines which would have taken place during the strike were explained away in the form of a narrative chat between Len Fairclough and Bet Lynch.

European harmonica player Philip Achille, who performs Irish, Classical, Jazz, Qawali and sufi music, has won jazz competitions and his classical performances have led to appearances on the BBC as well as ITV and Channel 4.

Other 21st century British science fiction shows have included the time travel drama Life on Mars, its sequel Ashes to Ashes, Being Human, Eleventh Hour and Primeval on ITV.

It was recently discovered that the original copy had been wiped, which is unusual as the wiping of archive material at ITV is usually thought to have stopped around 1977.

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 ).

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.

Carlton and Granada stepped in and paid £ 2. 8m to have the boxes stay with their customers, as at the time the ITV companies received a discount on their licence payments based on the number of digital homes they had converted.

Since the launch of the platform in 1998, all of the ITV franchises have received gifted capacity on the digital terrestrial television platform.

UTV, Scottish and Grampian have previously broadcast their own services, UTV2 in the former and S2 in the latter two, until 2002 when they adopted the ITV plc channels.

The archive of networked programmes made by Southern Television, for example, is now owned by the Australian media company Southern Star Group ( no connection ) – but Southern's regional output is in the hands of ITV plc, whilst the few surviving tapes of Associated-Rediffusion belong to many different organisations ( the majority of Associated-Rediffusion's tapes were recorded in monochrome and therefore deemed of no use upon the arrival of colour broadcasting ; as such they were disposed of by their successor Thames Television ), although in recent years there have been occasional discoveries such as a 1959 episode of Double Your Money and the remaining missing episode of Around the World with Orson Welles, found by Ray Langstone in 2011.

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.

In Britain, ITN's news presenters ( especially those on ITV News ) are referred to as newscasters ( and have been since the 1950s ), whilst those working at the BBC are called newsreaders.

Furthermore, the two commercial analogue broadcasters ITV and Channel 5 also have significant public service obligations imposed as part of their licence to broadcast.

Many of the top panel shows air on BBC One, though BBC Two, ITV, Channel 4, Sky1 and others have all had successes in the format.

Some at the company considered ITV could only survive as a single merged entity in order to have sufficient resources to produce big-budget programmes, a concern that increased when BSkyB began to take ITV's viewing share, leading to less advertising revenue, the source of ITV's income.

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.

Secondly, there was a problem of connecting the islands to the rest of the ITV Network-the solution was to build a relay station on Alderney, the northern-most island, which would then send the network feed from Westward Television and occasionally Southern Television to Channel Television's studio in Jersey ; this was initially a problem, because the existence of the relay station meant that Alderney itself could not have a broadcast service from the start of broadcasting, and the local authorities refused to lease land to the ITA for the relay station.

Each series would have a ' home region ' which would administrate and coordinate central functions ( Tyne Tees Television for Highway and Anglia Television for The Time, The Place ), with the production of each programme being handled by the local ITV contractor ; thus, when the shows came to the Channel Islands, they used Channel's facilities.

ITV have recently released The Krypton Factor Interactive DVD Board Game via their website in 2010, and then again in 2011.

The junction with Paradise Circus was home to the studios of former ITV companies ATV and Central ; the studios ( on the land between the Alpha Tower and the former Birmingham Municipal Bank ) have since been demolished.

ITV plc has confirmed to TiswasOnline that many more programme elements ( other than those officially known to exist ) have been kept, but as yet these have not been fully catalogued.

* When there are in fact no standard programmes being broadcast on the channels that do not have 24-hour programming, other, more informative features such as educational shows, e. g. the BBC Learning Zone, and teletext-type programmes such as Pages from Ceefax, ITV Nightscreen and 4-Tel On View are often broadcast, the latter type acting as the better test-card substitute as they just roll continuously.

Since the Broadcasting Act 1990, ITN has had to apply and bid for a licence to provide such services on these networks and would have to fight competition in order to preserve its services, as had become the case with other ITV franchisees.

All three main news bulletins have a lead over their rival programmes on ITV and other terrestrial or cable channels.

The smallness of the station, once described as ' television in miniature ', while having implications for the profitability of the company, has on the whole been to its advantage: it has an extremely close relationship with its viewership, reflecting daily life and government in the islands, and while not producing large numbers of programmes for the ITV Network at the start of the 21st century, it does produce some five-and-a-half hours a week of programmes for its own area, including the local nightly news magazine Channel Report.

A drama-documentary about the Marchioness disaster in which both Roger and Erica were portrayed was dropped by ITV in August 2007 after relatives of the deceased described it as " distressing and insensitive ".

Roy Thomson, who ran Scottish Television famously described ITV as a " licence to print money ".

Lord Falconer of Thoroton, the Lord Chancellor, described the BBC payment as a " disgusting warping of our values ".. Brendon Fearon was also approached to appear in an episode of Real Crime named ' A Shot in the Dark ' shown on ITV 1 in 2008.

Davidson was subsequently asked to leave the show as a contestant due to what ITV described as " unacceptable remarks " against Dowling.

In June 2007, shortly after the conclusion of Series Three of The Apprentice, rival UK channel ITV began airing Tycoon, described in The Times as " a shameless rip-off of The Apprentice ".

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson described the incident in an interview with ITV after the match as ' disgraceful ' and ' intimidation of the referee '".

The five-part series was commissioned by director of drama commissioning Laura Mackie and controller of drama commissioning Sally Haynes, and described by ITV as a " character based series which focuses on the everyday people who find themselves at the centre of one of the most controversial criminal re-trials of their time ".

He led the team at the 1984 European Championships and also described all the main matches at the 1986 World Cup – except the final, for which Moore flew out from London ( the first time he had ever commentated on a World Cup match for ITV, having previously worked from London as anchorman ).

The dish was also featured on the ITV show, Britain's Best Dish.

** 1960: ITV, ITV Play of the Week, " Tess ", directed by Michael Currer-Briggs, and starring Geraldine McEwan ( Tess ), Maurice Kaufmann ( Alec ), and Jeremy Brett ( Angel ).

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.

*" Fearful Symmetry ", an episode of the ITV television series Lewis_ ( TV_series ) ( 2012 )

* In the ITV series The Professionalss 1st season's 4th episode " Killer With A Long Arm ", characters Georgi ( Michael Latimer ), Hilda ( Diane Keen ), and Costa ( Milos Kirek ), are assassins who wear leather gloves throughout the entire program ; as they murder, hold hostages, and commit other crimes.

From 1 November 2004, Granada productions were credited " Granada Manchester ", the brand of the unified in-house production arm but on 21 September 2005 it was announced that Granada's name would no longer appear at the end of programmes and the in-house production arm was renamed ' ITV Productions '.

Typically this is " This is Channel Television, ITV in the Channel Islands ", or at the handover from ITV Breakfast, " It's 9: 25 and you're watching Channel Television, your local ITV station ".

Opinions vary on the matter of political motivations ; some cite the documentary " Death On The Rock ", which may have caused displeasure to the then government, whilst others link it to a more general ideological dislike of the way ITV had been run at the time, with ' excessive over-manning ' and the fact that programme production was generally limited to franchise holders ( sometimes critically referred to as barriers to entry ) being seen as examples of why more commercial freedom and competition was needed within the network.

He also co-wrote " The Show ", the theme song to the 1985 ITV drama series Connie, which became a top 30 hit for vocalist Rebecca Storm.

* In 2005, he took part in the ITV wrestling competition Celebrity Wrestling where he went under the moniker " Gentleman Jim ", and appeared on Heads Up with Richard Herring to discuss his life and love of poker.

After retaining its franchise in 1993 unopposed, Scottish Television production for the ITV network were placed into a separate company, " Scottish Television Enterprises ", which become one of the largest suppliers of children's programmes in Europe.

Barker and Corbett also made a number of advertisements that appeared on ITV, most notably for British Leyland ( Austin / Morris ) in 1979 where Corbett played a villain on the run and, " needing some wheels ", gets salesman Barker to show him round the Austin Morris range.

Some that used it extensively are " Faking It ", the second episode of the BBC series Hustle ; the ITV series The Fixer ; and Whitechapel, a three-part drama series produced by Carnival Films.

Although CHCH had been available on cable in many Ontario markets for years, the station's broadcast signal coverage was expanded throughout Ontario with repeaters in 1997, in an effort to compete with the reach of Global's Ontario station CIII, as well as the Baton Broadcast System, a group of mostly CTV-affiliated stations which served most of the province .< Ref > In turn, WIC renamed the station ONtv, as in " Ontario Television ", in line with the naming pattern of many of its other stations ( such as BCTV, ITV, and RDTV ).

The accompanying TV show, " Frank Skinner on Frank Skinner ", in which Skinner showed where he lived as a child and interviews with Skinner, his friends and family members, was recorded and shown on ITV in 2001.

This was used until 1999, when ( along with most other ITV companies ), Anglia took the Hearts idents, which featured the stylised " A ", albeit in a square, rather than a flag, and which were used until 2002.

In 2009, Mills joined the cast of series 4 of the ITV drama Wild at Heart, playing " Georgina ", the sister of a character that was played in the previous series by her real life sister Hayley.

* In the ITV series Lewis ( Inspector Lewis in the US ), episode titled " Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things ", DS Hathaway quotes the line " Out flew the web and floated wide ".

In March 1987 the group was the subject of an episode of the ITV arts series The South Bank Show, on which they performed " Air ", " Bean Fields ", " Dirt " and " Giles Farnaby's Dream ".

Each episode begins with an authentic " countdown clock ", similar to the one used on ITV Schools programmes from 1979 to 1987.

* " The Awakening ", a piece of library music composed by Johnny Pearson and used as theme music by ITV