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.

David Suchet has starred as the eponymous detective in Agatha Christie's Poirot in the ITV series since 1989.

The notion of a second commercial broadcaster in the United Kingdom had been around since the inception of ITV in 1954 and its subsequent launch in 1955 ; the idea of an ' ITV2 ' was long expected and pushed for.

A remake miniseries, in the works since 2005, premiered on 15 November 2009 on American cable TV channel AMC, made in cooperation with British broadcaster ITV after AMCs original production partner Sky1 had pulled out.

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

The last time the franchises were reviewed was in 1991 with all operators ' licenses being renewed without contest or review since, making it the longest ITV has gone without a review.

However, since the amalgamation of companies since the creation of ITV Network Ltd., and since that Channel Television is now owned by ITV plc, it has been replaced by an affiliation system.

Agatha Christie's Poirot is a British television drama that has aired on ITV since 1989.

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Like Channel 4, S4C does not produce programmes of its own ; instead, it commissions programmes from BBC Cymru and independent producers ( although the quantity purchased from ITV Wales has greatly reduced since the early years of S4C ), and it has particularly developed a reputation for commissioning cartoons, such as SuperTed, Sam Tân ( which became Fireman Sam in its English version on the BBC ) and Shakespeare: The Animated Tales.

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.

the licence for the region being held by ITV Broadcasting Limited since November 2008.

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.

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

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.

Channel Television ( known on-air as ITV1 Channel Television ) is a British television station which has served as an Independent Television ( ITV ) contractor to the Channel Islands since 1962.

Channel has since kept its franchise and, in 1999, signed contracts ( along with the other ITV companies ) to keep their franchises for the next ten years.

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.

ITV Digital also ran a famous advertising campaign involving the comedian Johnny Vegas and a knitted monkey ( voiced by Ben Miller ).

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.