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Night Network, Night Time and Night Shift were names given to the overnight (usually between 12 and 6 am) schedule of the ITV network in the United Kingdom. The first ITV company began 24-hour broadcasting in 1986, with all of the companies broadcasting through the night by the end of 1988.
The BBC took a long time to abandon the practice, and did not commence a full daytime service until the autumn of 1986. A full night-time closedown sequence on British television typically contained information about the following day's schedule, perhaps a weather forecast and/or a news update, possibly a Public Information Film and finally, a ...
ITV London is formally created. 2003. No events. 2004. 2 February – Granada merges with Carlton Communications to form a single England and Wales ITV company called ITV plc. [18] 31 March – The LWT logo is seen for the final time. It had continued to appear as an endcap.
2000. May – ITV Night Time begins on Anglia, Channel, HTV Wales, HTV West, Meridian and Westcountry. 2001. 29 August – Many of the former overnight programmes associated with the old Night Network and Night Time services are replaced with repeats of networked daytime shows (many of these including on-screen BSL signing for the deaf).
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 ...
3 May – Granada Television launches ITV in the north of England and two days later the north of England's weekend contractor ABC Weekend TV broadcasts for the first time. 1957. 13 May – ITV transmits a television programme for schools for the first time. It is broadcast by London's ITV contractor Associated-Rediffusion.
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 ...
This is a timeline of the history of Carlton Television (now known as ITV London), and of its former owner Carlton Communications.Carlton Television has provided the ITV service for London on weekdays since 1993, and Carlton Communications took over the services for the Midlands, South West England, the West of England and Wales before merging with Granada plc to form ITV plc.