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"HTV West" and "ITV West" were the service names for the ITV service in the West of England from 1970 until 2009, after which the service name "ITV West Country" has been used across the West and South West of England. The "West" service was a sub-region of the franchise for Wales and the West.
Map of the sub-regions, coded to the list below. ... West Country (West) [note 3] Central (West Midlands) ... HTV West HTV (West) ITV1 West of England;
The white logo on blue background was seen plain when both Wales and the West received the programme, [31] but would otherwise have the region name included. For the West region, this was 'West' at the top of the logo between the 'H' and 'V', [32] whereas for Wales, the caption Cymru Wales was placed at the bottom of the logo, as a reference ...
The former HTV Wales region used their own package but adapted it three months after the rebrand in 2004, so that programming only shown in Wales used the landscape idents from the Central, HTV West, and Westcountry regions. Prior to national programming, the celebrity idents were used.
16 February – As part of major cutbacks across ITV to its regional broadcasts in England the operations of ITV Westcountry and ITV West are merged into a new non-franchise region ITV West & Westcountry. The new ‘region’ results in a merged regional news service based in Bristol called The West Country Tonight. However the first half of ...
The opening of a colour service from the Mendip transmitter in May 1970 led to the creation of a separate HTV West service and the launch of a full evening news programme for the region, Report West. Up until the early 1980s, the first half of the programme also aired on HTV's 'General Service', followed by a full edition of Report Wales.
HTV West, 1968–2002. ("HTV general service" also available, on VHF only, in South Wales and the West of England, not shown on map.) ... "ITV West region", 2009, ITV ...
Following the merger of Westcountry and HTV West to become ITV West & Westcountry in February 2009 (later becoming "ITV West Country" on 1 January 2014), Spotlight is now the only regional TV news service dedicated entirely to, and produced in, the South West, as the ITV service (ITV News West Country) is based in Bristol with bulletins and opt ...