Beginning in 2004, ITV broadcast a series of adaptations of Agatha Christie's books under the title Agatha Christie's Marple, usually referred to as Marple.

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.

At this point, the ITV network became complete and the programme was broadcast almost continuously across the country at 19: 30 on Monday and Wednesday for the next twenty-seven years.

* List of television programmes broadcast by ITV

ITV television has been available on parts of the east of the Isle of Man on 3rd May 1956 when Granada Television transmissions started from the Winter Hill transmitting station, and to parts of the west of the island on 1st October 1959 from the Black Mountain transmitting station in Northern Ireland which broadcast Ulster Television.

Rediffusion did not use the play ; instead, it was made as one of the first productions of the new ITV company Yorkshire Television, and broadcast posthumously on 26 August 1968.

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

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.

In 1999, the British television network ITV broadcast a censored version with each of the twelve utterances of Nigger deleted.

ATV, as part of the ITV network, would broadcast the show to other ITV stations in the United Kingdom, and its distribution arm, ITC Entertainment, would sell the show in the United States and around the world.

The ATV-produced show, which was worth a reported $ 9m to Jones over three years, was broadcast by ITV in the UK and by ABC in America.

The program, presented by Bamber Gascoigne, produced by Granada Television and broadcast across the ITV network, was very popular and ran until it was taken off the air in 1987.

One of the most controversial Archers episodes was broadcast on 22 September 1955, the evening of the launch of the UK's first commercial television station, ITV.

The Smiths were the subject of a South Bank Show documentary produced by LWT and broadcast by ITV on 18 October 1987, four months after their break-up and three weeks after the release of Strangeways.

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

He subsequently scripted and presented for ATV a six-part television series based on this book and broadcast posthumously by ITV between October and December 1979.

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.

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.

At present, the companies are able to broadcast additional channels and all choose to broadcast the ITV plc owned ITV2, ITV3, ITV4 and CITV in their region.

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.

STV aims to broadcast more Scottish programmes at peak times and so removed several key ITV plc programmes from their schedule in July 2009 including The Bill, Midsomer Murders and Lewis.

Despite STV's explanation of expense, ITV plc were angered by the decision, as a recent schedule change had made The Bill central to their programming, and broadcast the programmes on ITV3 as well to ensure Scottish viewers could see the programmes.

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.

ITN was founded in 1955 as part of the new British commercial television network, referred to as " Independent Television " ( later ITV ), by the Independent Television Authority.

Associated Television, often referred to as ATV, was a British television company, holder of various licences to broadcast on the ITV network from 24 September 1955 until 00: 34 on 1 January 1982.

Geographical and structural changes in the network created by the ITA's 1967 invitation for applicants for new contracts for the right to broadcast on ITV ( running from 1968 to 1974 and sometimes referred to as a ' contract round ') meant that ABC Weekend Television ( ABC ) lost both their contracts ( sometimes known as franchises ), serving the Midlands and the North at weekends, as these areas were to become seven-day operations.

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.

Scottish Television ( now legally known as STV Central Ltd and referred to on-air as STV ) is Scotland's largest ITV franchisee, and has held the ITV franchise for Central Scotland since 31 August 1957.

Grampian Television ( now legally known as STV North Ltd and referred to on-air as STV ) is the ITV franchisee for the North and North East of Scotland.

During the 1990s, Children's BBC began to be referred to informally on-air as ' CBBC ' ( this occurred at around the same time that ITV's rival service " Children's ITV " began to be referred to as CITV in a similar manner ).

Due to copyright reasons only viewers residing in the UK could see them on the ITV site.

ITV then confirmed to the Mail that a second version had been recorded in the 1970s, but was only used for a very short while before reverting to Hunt's 1960 recording.

That left ATV in the Midlands as the only ITV station not carrying the show.

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.

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

That same year, the two merged to form ITV plc with the only subsequent acquisition being the takeover of Channel Television, the Channel Islands franchise, in 2011.

A version ran for two series from June 6, 1991 to September 20, 1992 with Paul Coia as host, but only aired in the HTV West ITV region.

In 1989, Sykes starred as the Secretary in the ITV situation comedy The Nineteenth Hole, written by Johnny Speight ; it was not a success and ran for only one series.

Telewest had an agreement with both ITV and the BBC and claimed to be the only provider in the UK to offer all the 2006 World Cup matches in HD.

In 1958, Owen presented a music panel / programme titled Dad You're A Square for ATV-it ran for one series-and only one episode exists in the archive of ITV.

* Revolver, was a British music TV series on ITV that ran for one series only, of eight episodes, in 1978 that featured Punk and New Wave acts.

In January 1964, TWW was required to take over the franchise of its neighbour, Teledu Cymru — Wales ( West and North ) ( WWN ) when that company became the only ITV company to ever fail financially.

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.

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.

It was the only ITA broadcaster created in 1954 that survived into the 21st century, and flourished it emerged the dominant player in the ITV network by 2000.

This problem was eventually overcome, and Channel Television went on the air on September 1, 1962-the penultimate ITV franchise to begin broadcasting ( followed by WWN ), and serving the smallest population: only about 150, 000 people in 54, 000 households.

Channel was the only ITV franchise not to be affected by the technicians ' strike in the summer of 1968, as it was understood by all that any strike action would probably put the company out of business.

It was the only ITV company to take the network branding without being a part of ITV plc.

In addition to the " Tiswas Reunited " DVD, released by ITV DVD a week after transmission of the 2007 programme, the only other Tiswas DVD available is The Best of Tiswas.

In the UK, after a six-week trial-run on the regional ITV station Yorkshire Television, the Independent Broadcasting Authority considered breakfast television so important that it created an entire franchise for it, the only national ITV franchise except for news provider ITN.

ITV Wales & West is the only exception using the name ITV1 Wales at all times for the Welsh part of its broadcast area, as it has a higher regional commitment, although recently the ITV1 Wales name is only used on Breakbumpers and regionally advertised programmes.