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Yorkshire Television Ltd still legally exists, but its licence is now owned and operated by ITV plc under the licence name of ITV Broadcasting Limited (along with all the other ITV plc-owned franchises). Yorkshire Television Ltd is, along with most other regional companies owned by ITV plc, listed with Companies House as a dormant company.
December – A strike forces Yorkshire Television off the air throughout the entire Christmas period. Many of ITV's Christmas programmes were eventually shown in early 1979, after the dispute had ended. 1979. 10 August – The ten week ITV strike forces Yorkshire Television off the air once again. The strike ends on 24 October.
From 1993, mergers between ITV companies became possible; as a result, companies began to take each other over to increase efficiencies and to expand. By 2004, all of the ITV franchises in England and Wales were owned by the newly formed ITV plc, the four other franchises being Scottish TV, Grampian TV, UTV and Channel.
The ITV plc regions, by then all renamed, including ITV Anglia, ITV Border, ITV London, ITV Central, ITV Granada, ITV Wales & West, ITV Meridian, ITV Tyne Tees, ITV Westcountry, and ITV Yorkshire, all adopted the look.
The history of ITV, the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies "Independent Television" commercial network, goes back to 1955. [1]Independent Television began as a network of independently-owned regional companies that were both broadcasters and programme makers, beginning with four companies operating six stations in three large regions in 1955–1956, and gradually expanding to 17 stations in ...
The Leeds Studios (also known as the ITV Television Centre, Yorkshire Television Studios or YTV Studios) is a television production complex on Kirkstall Road in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. ITV plc had proposed to close the studios in 2009, however later in the year had a change of mind and instead decided to refit them as high-definition ...
The takeover of Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television was thought to be worth about £800m. Three months later, Bruce Gyngell left the company in September 1997. Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television, along with Welsh franchisee HTV , later challenged a government plan for all ITV companies to be required to use a single supplier of television news.
Pages in category "Television series by Yorkshire Television" The following 170 pages are in this category, out of 170 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .