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1973. 17 December – The British government imposes early close downs of all three television channels in the UK including ITV from 17 December 1973 in order to save electricity during the Three Day Week crisis. The early close downs forced ITV to end their broadcasting day at 10:30pm, thus losing the network a lot of advertising revenue.
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 ...
ITV Sport has broadcast many boxing matches over the years under the Big Fight Live banner and the sport was a regular fixture on ITV screens until the mid 1990s when ITV lost its two premier contracts to Sky Sports [62] In 2005, ITV returned to the ring when it reached an agreement to broadcast the main share of Frank Warren's Sports Network ...
1973. 31 October – The first of 26 episodes of The World at War is broadcast. It took four years to produce. 1974. The 1974 franchise round sees no changes in ITV's contractors as it is felt that the huge cost in switching to colour television would have made the companies unable to compete against rivals in a franchise battle. 1975. No ...
1984. No events. 1985. 3 January – The last day of transmission using the 405-lines system. 1986. Channel Television switches its feed of the ITV network from TSW to TVS. 1987. 7 September – Following the transfer of ITV Schools to Channel 4, ITV provides a full morning programme schedule, with advertising, for the first time. By 1987 ...
ITV shows the feature-length pilot episode of The Six Million Dollar Man, starring Lee Majors as the half-man, half-cyborg action hero Steve Austin. Following the pilot shown in April 1973, BBC1 commences with the Ronnie Barker prison comedy series Porridge. 23 September The BBC teletext service Ceefax goes live with 30 pages of information.
1973. No events. 1974. The Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) automatically extends all ITV franchise contracts from 1974 to 1981, owing to the enormous costs of introducing colour television. 1975. No events. 1976. May – LWT is reorganised, to form a new company, LWT (Holdings) Limited.
1973. No events. 1974. ... 1984. No events. 1985. No events. ... ITV provides live extensive coverage of the Iraq War with extended news coverage on ITV and rolling ...