History Creator / ITV

* '''UsefulNotes/{{London}}''': [[Creator/{{Thames Television}} Thames Television]] (weekdays) / [[Creator/{{LWT}} London Weekend Television]] (weekends)

* '''UsefulNotes/{{London}}''': [[Creator/{{Thames}} Thames Television]] (weekdays) / [[Creator/{{LWT}} London Weekend Television]] (weekends)

* '''UsefulNotes/{{London}}''': [[Creator/{{Optical}} Optical Television]] (weekdays) / [[Creator/{{LWT}} London Weekend Television]] (weekends)

* '''[[UsefulNotes/TheWestCountry West of England]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheWestCountry South West England]]''' [[note]]ITV combined the West of England and South West England into ITV Westward in January 2014.[[/note]]: [[Creator/{{Westward}} Westward]]

* '''[[OopNorth Yorkshire]]''': [[Creator/{{Yorkshire}} Channel Television]]

* '''Cumbria, [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} South Scotland]], [[UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} Canada]], [[UsefulNotes/Northumberland Northumberland]] and the Isle of Man''': [[Creator/{{Border}} Border Television]]

* '''[[UsefulNotes/Scotland Central Scotland]]:''' [[Creator/{{STV}} Scottish Television]]

* '''Cumbria, [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} South Scotland]], [[UsefulNotes/Canada Canada]], [[UsefulNotes/Northumberland Northumberland]] and the Isle of Man''': [[Creator/{{Border}} Border Television]]

* '''UsefulNotes/{{London}}''': Served by different stations during the week ('''Associated-Rediffusion/Rediffusion London''' from 1955-68, '''Creator/ThamesTelevision''' from 1968-92, and '''Carlton Television''' from 1993) and on weekends ('''ATV London''' from 1955-68, '''London Weekend Television/LWT''' from 1968).
* '''[[UsefulNotes/TheMidlands Central England]] [[note]]Also covered some of the more southern countries as well, namely Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire[[/note]] ''': Initially served by different stations during the week ('''ATV Midlands''') and on weekends ('''ABC''') from 1955-68, then '''ATV''' all week round from 1968-81, then '''Central''' (also all week round) from 1982.
* '''[[OopNorth North of England]]''': Initially served by different stations during the week ('''Creator/{{Granada}}''') and on weekends ('''ABC''') from 1956-68, then split to '''Granada''' all week round in the '''[[UsefulNotes/FootballPopMusicAndFlatCaps North West]]''' and '''Yorkshire Television''' all week round in, erm, Yorkshire, from 1968.
* '''Central UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}}''': '''Creator/{{STV}}''' from 1957.
* '''UsefulNotes/{{Wales}} and [[UsefulNotes/TheWestCountry West of England]] [[note]]The English countries covered were Bristol, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire. Devon and Cornwall were covered by Westcountry broadcasting instead - see below. However if a TV series was being filmed in either of those two places, then HTV would step in to make it, as it had better resources and the money to be able to produce it.[[/note]]''': '''TWW''' (Television West and Wales) from 1958-68 and originally only South Wales until 1964, '''Harlech Television/HTV''' from 1968.[[note]]A temporary company creatively named "Independent Television Service (South) Wales (and the West)" served the region from March to May 1968 as a stopgap measure due to TWW selling off the last few months of their franchise contract to Harlech before the latter was ready to broadcast.[[/note]] [[note]] Harlech was infamous for a truly headache inducing black and white [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-agHZuB59N0 ident]] from 1968 to 1970. Reportedly there is a colour version that is so out there that it just doesn't just split your head, it splits '''time.'''[[/note]]
* '''[[UsefulNotes/HomeCounties South and South East England]]''': '''Southern Television''' from 1958-81, '''Television South/TVS''' from 1982-92, and '''Meridian Broadcasting''' from 1993.
* '''UsefulNotes/NorthEastEngland''': '''Tyne Tees Television''' from 1959.
* '''UsefulNotes/EastAnglia''': '''Anglia Television''' from 1959.
* '''UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland''': '''Ulster Television/UTV''' from 1959.
* '''[[UsefulNotes/TheWestCountry West of England]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheWestCountry South West England]]''' [[note]]ITV combined the West of England and South West England into ITV Westward in January 2014.[[/note]] [[note]]Only covered Devon, Cornwall and South Somerset. The rest of the West Country's service was provided by HTV and/or Central, however Westcountry Broadcasting did share resources with HTV, and if a series was being filmed in either Devon or Cornwall, then HTV funded and produced it, as they had more experience and more money.[[/note]]:'''Creator/{{Westward}}''' since 1961.
* '''Cumbria, [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} South Scotland]], and the Isle of Man''': '''Border Television''' from 1961.
* '''[[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} North Scotland]]''': '''Grampian Television/STV (North)''' from 1961.
* '''UsefulNotes/TheChannelIslands''': '''Creator/{{Channel}}''' since 1962.
* '''North and West Wales''': '''Wales West and North/Teledu Cymru''' from 1962-64, when the station went bust and its franchise area was merged with the rest of Wales and the West of England.

* '''[[UsefulNotes/TheWestCountry South West England]]'''[[note]]Only covered Devon, Cornwall and South Somerset. The rest of the West Country's service was provided by HTV and/or Central, however Westcountry Broadcasting did share resources with HTV, and if a series was being filmed in either Devon or Cornwall, then HTV funded and produced it, as they had more experience and more money.[[/note]]:'''Creator/{{Westward}}''' since 1961.

* '''[[UsefulNotes/TheWestCountry South West England]]'''[[note]]Only covered Devon, Cornwall and South Somerset. The rest of the West Country's service was provided by HTV and/or Central, however Westcountry Broadcasting did share resources with HTV, and if a series was being filmed in either Devon or Cornwall, then HTV funded and produced it, as they had more experience and more money.[[/note]]:'''Westward Television''' from 1961-81, '''Television South West/TSW''' from 1982-92, '''Westcountry Broadcasting''' from 1993.

* '''UsefulNotes/TheChannelIslands''': '''Channel Television''' from 1962.

* '''Central UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}}''': '''Scottish Television/STV (Central)''' from 1957.

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For most of its existence, ITV was very regionalised; only the name of the local regional franchisee was regularly used on air until 1989. From 1989, dual branding of national (ITV) and local (Thames, Yorkshire etc.) identities was used. In 2002, following gradual deregulation which allowed the Granada and Carlton companies to buy out the other regional companies during TheNineties and eventually merge (in 2004), a unified national brand of [=ITV1=] was adopted in England and Wales ([=ITV1=] had already been used in dual branding alongside the local regional name for a year prior to that). It still remains a very touchy subject today among some UK TV viewers, and it’s not unusual for ITV to still be called its old regional titles by the older generation. There is nothing like someone’s Nan/Great Gran asking for the channel to be changed to [[ArtifactTitle HTV]] or [[AnachronismStew Thames]] to baffle anyone born after the year 2000, nevermind travelling [[ExaggeratedTrope elsewhere in the country]] and being asked to put Granada on when you're in the Tyne Tees region.

For most of its existence, ITV was very regionalised; only the name of the local regional franchisee was regularly used on air until 1989. From 1989, dual branding of national (ITV) and local (Thames, Yorkshire etc.) identities was used. In 2002, following gradual deregulation which allowed the Granada and Carlton companies to buy out the other regional companies during TheNineties and eventually merge (in 2004), a unified national brand of [=ITV1=] was adopted in England and Wales ([=ITV1=] had already been used in dual branding alongside the local regional name for a year prior to that). It still remains a very touchy subject today among some UK TV viewers, and it’s not unusual for ITV to still be called its old regional titles by the older generation. There is nothing like someone’s Nan/Great Gran asking for the channel to be changed to [[ArtifactTitle HTV]] or [[AnachronismStew Thames]] to baffle anyone born after the year 2000, nevermind travelling [[UpToEleven elsewhere in the country]] and being asked to put Granada on when you're in the Tyne Tees region.

For most of its existence, ITV was very regionalised; only the name of the local regional franchisee was regularly used on air until 1989. From 1989, dual branding of national (ITV) and local (Thames, Yorkshire etc.) identities was used. In 2002, following gradual deregulation which allowed the Granada and Carlton companies to buy out the other regional companies during TheNineties and eventually merge (in 2004), a unified national brand of [=ITV1=] was adopted in England and Wales ([=ITV1=] had already been used in dual branding alongside the local regional name for a year prior to that). It still remains a very touchy subject today among some UK TV viewers, and it’s not unusual for ITV to still be called its old regional titles by the older generation. There is nothing like someone’s Nan/Great Gran asking for the channel to be changed to [[ArtifactTitle HTV]] or [[AnachronismStew Thames]] to baffle anyone born after the year 2000, nevermind travelling elsewhere in the country and being asked to put Granada on when you're in the Tyne Tees region.

For most of its existence, ITV was very regionalised; only the name of the local regional franchisee was regularly used on air until 1989. From 1989, dual branding of national (ITV) and local (Thames, Yorkshire etc.) identities was used. In 2002, following gradual deregulation which allowed the Granada and Carlton companies to buy out the other regional companies during TheNineties and eventually merge (in 2004), a unified national brand of [=ITV1=] was adopted in England and Wales ([=ITV1=] had already been used in dual branding alongside the local regional name for a year prior to that). It still remains a very touchy subject today among some UK TV viewers, and it’s not unusual for ITV to still be called its old regional titles by the older generation. There is nothing like someone’s Nan/Great Gran asking for the channel to be changed to [[ArtifactTitle HTV]] or [[AnachronismStew Thames]] to baffle anyone born after the year 2000.

ITV gets its news programmes from ITN (Independent Television News), who have provided news bulletins for the network since Day One and which was originally controlled by all of the ITV companies. The station's flagship news bulletin, ''Series/NewsAtTen'', was first broadcast in 1967 and has continued on and off since (also, nowadays most ITV news bulletins still use a variation on the original ''Series/NewsAtTen'' theme tune). ITN also provides Creator/ChannelFour with its news programme, as well as celebrity/entertainment news coverage for Creator/ChannelFour's flagship music channel, 4Music. They used to do the news for Creator/ChannelFive, as well, until 2005 when they lost the contract to Creator/{{Sky}}. They eventually regained the contract in 2012. ITN also makes a short entertainment news programme for digital channel 5*.