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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 ...
20 September – ITV Southern show the 1972 made for television horror film The Night Stalker, starring Darren McGavin, ahead of other ITV regions. 25 September – Yorkshire Television premieres Animal Kwackers , the British version of the American television series The Banana Splits Adventure Hour which ended almost six years earlier but ...
1973. No events. 1974. 7 September – First Report is moved to a 1pm start time. 1975. No events. 1976. 6 September – News at One replaces First Report and the teatime news bulletin programme is extended by five minutes and renamed News at 5.45. 1977. No events. 1978. ITV's teletext service ORACLE launches with ITN providing the news pages ...
18 April – ITV London begin showing the American horror series Night Gallery, ... (1973–1975, 1990–1991, 1997–2000) 13 February – The Viaduct (1973)
The dedicated children’s channel has been on air for 17 years.
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 ...
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