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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 ...
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. 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 ...
1973. Granada's nightly news programme is relaunched as Granada Reports. The nightly news programme had previously had various titles, including Northern Newscast, Scene at Six Thirty, Newsview and People and Places. 1974. No events. 1975. No events. 1976. 6 September – Northern Life replaces Today at Six as Tyne Tees’ regional news ...
Children’s channel has been on air for 17 years
1973. 20-22 September - ITV shows the Ryder Cup for the first time. 1974. 31 August – ITV shows the first edition of the World Masters (darts). It continues to show the event until it drops darts in 1988. 1975. 4 June – ITV becomes the exclusive broadcaster of The Derby - the race had been shown by both ITV and the BBC since 1960. 1976
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