The channel was established to provide a fourth television service to the United Kingdom in addition to the television licence – funded BBC's two services and the single commercial broadcasting network, ITV.

For eleven weeks, between August and October 1979, industrial action forced Coronation Street and the whole of the ITV network ( apart from the Channel Islands ) off the air.

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.

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.

Aside from Granada, the programme originally appeared on the following stations of the ITV network: Anglia Television, Associated-Rediffusion, Television Wales and the West, Scottish Television, Southern Television and Ulster Television.

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.

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.

In a January 2008 overhaul of the ITV network the Sunday episodes of Coronation Street and Emmerdale were moved out of their slots.

In the 1960s, Britain's commercial television network, ITV, influenced by Canadian producer Sydney Newman produced the science-fiction serials Pathfinders In Space ( 1960 ) and its sequel Pathfinders to Venus ( 1961 ).

The Avengers was produced by ABC Television, a contractor within the ITV network.

It would be three years before Britain's ITV network began full colour broadcasting.

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.

ITV Digital was a British digital terrestrial television broadcaster, which launched a pay-TV service on the world's first digital terrestrial television network.

Started as ONdigital in 1998, the network was briefly re-branded as ITV Digital in July 2001, before the service ceased in May 2002.

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.

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

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.

The first ITV network to launch was London's Associated-Rediffusion on 22 September 1955, with the midlands and North services launching in February 1956 and May 1956 respectively.

Following the 1993 changes, ITV as a network began to consolidate with several companies doing so to save money by ceasing the duplication of services present when they were all separate companies.

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.

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 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.

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

ITV honoured Blanche and Maggie with a half-hour special, Goodbye Blanche, which was aired after the funeral.

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

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.

The first was in Gloucester in 1950 and the process gathered pace over the next few years, especially after a second television channel, ITV, was launched in 1955 to compete with BBC.

In the 2005 ITV programme The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding The Legend, a full-size replica of the House of Lords was built and destroyed with barrels of gunpowder.

The high transmission tower was re-sited from London, where it had been used for early ITV transmissions.

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.

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.

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.

It was later sold to Television South, an ITV Franchise holder during the 1980s.

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.

The show was not a popular success, owing in part to the publication of the ITV listings magazine, TV Times, being suspended because of a strike.

Michael Winner, whilst appearing on an episode of Piers Morgan's Life Stories ( an ITV production ), stated that Quentin Tarantino was a " big fan " of Death Wish.

Crowe told ITV Local Yorkshire the game was not a marketing exercise.

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.

The system has been tested for use on the Humvee and the Improved TOW Vehicle ( ITV ).

Electrothermal vaporization ( ETV ) and in torch vaporization ( ITV ) use hot surfaces ( graphite or metal, generally ) to vaporize samples for introduction.

Of the companies external to ITV plc, STV and UTV use their own brands in their own respective areas ( northern and central Scotland and Northern Ireland ).

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.

The franchises that use the ITV1 brand are Anglia Television, Border Television, Carlton Television, Central Independent Television, Channel Television, Granada Television, ITV Wales & West, London Weekend Television, Meridian Broadcasting, Tyne Tees Television, Westcountry Television and Yorkshire Television.

ITV Wales remains unaffected and still continues to use dual-branding across all of its on-screen presentation.

Central adopted the ITV 1989 generic look as another ident to use alongside the Cake.

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.

Fair use rationale for ITV television presentation

The BBC's new graphics are used on all of their television weather broadcasts, but ITV Weather use animated weather symbols.

However, this colourful and dynamic ident was only to last a four years, as Grampian adopted the first ITV generic look in 1989 and used it from then until 1998, which made Grampian the longest ITV company to use this look at nine years.

In December 2005 it was confirmed that the channel would close down in 2006, in order to use its Freeview bandwidth ( which was already timeshared with ITV4 ) to launch the CITV channel based on the existing CITV brand, and to use its funding to boost ITV News coverage on the main ITV Network.

ITV repeatedly broadcast a short drama called Granny Gets The Point, starring Doris Hare of ' On The Buses ' fame ; where an elderly woman who does not understand the new system is taught to use it by her grandson.

In September 1989, when ITV introduced its first official corporate logo and national on-air identity, TSW was one of the five regions that refused to use the generic idents that were designed for their respective regions, each preferring to stay with their distinctive on-screen branding instead.

In 1984 Cowgill, in a foretaste of changes to come within the industry, successfully resisted demands by the ACTT union for additional payments to use new technology, by maintaining a reduced service while the other ITV contractors met demands for a 20 % rise in pay.

In 2005, British television network ITV tried to make use of the revived popularity of professional wrestling by starting a Saturday night prime time show called Celebrity Wrestling, featuring celebrities in wrestling style bouts.

Arguably its most famous use was as the logo of Anglia Television, the ITV station for the East of England, from launch in 1959 until 1988.

ITV informed O ' Grady that they were unhappy with his move to Channel 4, and he became entrenched in an ongoing dispute with the broadcaster regarding the use of the same set design, props, and names.

In his series Out of Step ( 1957 ) and People in Trouble ( 1958 )-never shown at the same time throughout the ITV network, but much repeated in various regions well into the early 1960s-he dealt with issues of social exclusion and alienation that most of the media at the time preferred to sweep under the carpet ( in this he was helped, of course, by the fact that as a gay man-a term he would not himself use even when it came to be much preferred to " homosexual "-in 1950s Britain, he could himself have fitted into the criteria of both series ).