This has now been ceased and Teletext is no longer available on Channel 4, ITV and Channel 5.

Coronation Street is produced by ITV Granada Television under ITV Studios and shown in all ITV regions.

The ITV network, like BBC1, began full colour transmissions on 15 November 1969 and it is therefore possible that the first transmitted colour episode is number 928 shown on 17 November.

The programme is currently shown in the UK in five episodes, over three evenings a week on ITV.

) is a television series produced originally by Rediffusion, London, then, by the fledgling Thames Television for British commercial television channel ITV from 26 December 1967 to 14 May 1969.

The BBC region is BBC North West and the ITV region is Granada.

The Tube is a television documentary originally made by ITV in 2002 in October 2011 the director of BBC Two announced announced a " new " TV series called ' The Tube ' which looks into the life of those who work and travel on London Underground.

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

Cracker is a British crime drama series produced by Granada Television for ITV and created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern.

Local TV content is currently provided by BBC Midlands Today and ITV Central News.

He is best known as the main character Derek " Del Boy " Trotter in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses from 1981, the voice of Mr Toad in The Wind in the Willows and as Detective Inspector Jack Frost on the ITV crime drama A Touch of Frost from 1992.

He is a qualified medical doctor, and was co-writer ( with Bill Oddie ) of several episodes of the medical comedy Doctor in the House on ITV ( appearing in the episode " Doctor on the Box " as a television presenter ).

Timeslip is a British children's science fiction television series made by ATV for the ITV network and broadcast between 1970 and 1971.

The show was made for ITV and is often repeated today on Sky Real Lives, Sky 1, Sky 2, Sky 3 ( now Pick TV ) & ITV2.

ITV is a major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom.

ITV is a network of television channels operating regional television services as well as sharing programmes between each other to be displayed on the entire network.

ITV is to be distinguished from ITV plc, the company that resulted from the merger of Granada plc and Carlton Communications in 2004 and which holds the Channel 3 broadcasting licences in England, Wales, southern Scotland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.

Similarly ITV1 is the brand used by ITV plc for the Channel 3 service in these areas.

As a public service broadcaster, the ITV network is obliged to broadcast programming of public importance, including news, current affairs, children's and religious programming as well as party election broadcasts on behalf of the major political parties and political events, such as the Budget.

Tyne Tees was obliged to contribute programming for the ITV network, although the bulk of network programming was purchased from the largest stations.

In the film, Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), adapted from Lord Edgware Dies, the role of Japp was taken by the actor David Suchet, who would later star as Poirot in the ITV adaptations.

The episode was watched by over 24 million viewers – more ITV viewers than the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana two days later.

The Prince of Wales made a cameo in the episode, appearing in a pre-recorded segment as himself in an ITV News bulletin report, presented by Trevor McDonald.

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

Like BBC1, the ITV network was officially broadcast in black and white ( though programmes were actually broadcast in colour as early as July that year for colour transmission testing and adjustment ) at this point so the episode was seen by most in black and white.

As the ITV network grew over the next few years, the programme was transmitted by these new stations on these dates onward: Westward Television from episode 40 on 29 April 1961, Border Television from episode 76 on 1 September 1961, Grampian Television from episode 84 on 30 September 1961, Channel Television from episode 180 on 1 September 1962 and Teledu Cymru ( north and west Wales ) from episode 184 on 14 September 1962.

Caligula has been played by Ralph Bates in the 1968 ITV television series The Caesars ; John Hurt in the 1976 BBC television series I, Claudius ; John McEnery in the 1985 miniseries A. D .; Szabolcs Hajdu in the 1996 film Caligula ; and John Simm in the 2004 miniseries Imperium Nerone.

* List of television programmes broadcast by ITV

Defence Minister Jonathan Aitken was accused by the ITV investigative journalism series World In Action and The Guardian newspaper of secretly doing deals with leading Saudi princes.

Two archive recordings of Orton are known to survive: a short BBC radio interview first transmitted in August 1967 and a video recording, held by the British Film Institute, of his appearance on Eamonn Andrews ' ITV chat show transmitted 23 April 1967.

Perhaps more importantly still, the film was shunned by the BBC and ITV, who declined to show it for fear of offending Christians in this country.

ITV was accused of engineering this in order to damage the final episode's expected high ratings, but was later cleared by the Independent Television Commission.

* 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 ).

Syndication did not exist as such in Britain until the arrival of satellite, cable and later, from 1998 on, digital television, although it could be argued that many ITV programs up to the early 1990s, particularly imported programming was syndicated in the sense that each ITV region bought in some programs independently of the ITV Network, and in particular many programs out of prime time made by smaller ITV stations were " part-networked " where some regions would show them and others would not.

During the 1960s Coronation Street ’ s main rival was Crossroads, a daily serial that began in 1964 and was broadcast by ITV in the early evening.

A new version of Crossroads featuring a mostly new cast was produced by Carlton Television for ITV in 2001.

This system, approved by Ofcom, results in ITV plc commissioning and funding the network schedule, with STV and UTV paying a fee to broadcast it.

In November 2006, NTL announced that it had approached commercial television broadcaster ITV about a proposed merger BSkyB effectively blocked the merger on 12 November 2006, when it controversially bought a 17. 9 % stake in ITV plc, a move that attracted anger from NTL shareholder Richard Branson and an investigation from media and telecoms regulator Ofcom.

S4C is controlled by the S4C Authority (), an independent body unconnected to Ofcom, the regulator of other UK television channels such as ITV and Channel 4.

* ITV Granada at Ofcom

On May 18, 2008, the Sunday Times newspaper reported Channel Television's role in compliance for the ITV network as a loophole which enabled ITV to lessen a possible fine for breaching Ofcom regulations during the 2005 British Comedy Awards.

On 5 April 2005 it was revealed ITV Central could be fined by regulator Ofcom for broadcasting a pre-recorded Central News ( East edition ) late news bulletin.

The move is expected to give ITV plc " greater value for money " but may be subject to Ofcom approval.

On 25 September 2008, Ofcom gave ITV the green light to merge ITV Border's news operation with that of ITV Tyne Tees at Newcastle from early-2009.

In early May 2008 Ofcom announced its fining and sanctioning ITV plc in a press release.

Under cost-cutting plans announced by ITV in September 2007 and agreed to by the UK's broadcasting regulator Ofcom in October 2008, the region's three sub-regions would be replaced with one programme.

The BBC, ITV, Channel 4, S4C and Channel 5 agreed with the regulator Ofcom to convert one UK multiplex ( B, or PSB3 ) to DVB-T2 to increase capacity for HDTV ( High Definition Television ) via DTT.

* Channel 3 ( UK ), the formal name for the broadcasting licences under which the British ITV Network and associated companies are allowed to operate, used by Ofcom and others in expressions such as " the regional Channel 3 licences ".