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1970. 17 July — Tyne Tees Television starts broadcasting in colour. [8]21 August – Yorkshire Television and Tyne Tees Television announce plans to merge when the two are brought under the control of a new holding company, Trident Television Limited, to deal with the problem of fairly allocating commercial airtime from a television transmitter at Bilsdale in North Yorkshire which straddled ...
ITV Tyne Tees, previously known as Tyne Tees, Channel 3 North East and Tyne Tees Television, is the ITV television franchisee for North East England and parts of North Yorkshire. [ 1 ] Tyne Tees launched on 15 January 1959 from studios at a converted warehouse in City Road, Newcastle upon Tyne , remaining in the city until July 2005 when Tyne ...
ITV subsequently purchases live rights to the newly formed UEFA Champions League and the second tier of English football, showing the latter on a regional basis until those rights passed to Sky in 1996. June – Yorkshire and Tyne Tees television merge, beginning a process that would see the consolidation of ITV over the next decade.
Lookaround and ITV News Tyne Tees are restored as fully separate regional programmes on weekdays with shorter daytime and weekend bulletins reintroduced. [24] Both programmes continue to be broadcast from Tyne Tees' Gateshead studios with extra journalists recruited for newsgathering in the Border region. 2014
June – Yorkshire Television and Tyne Tees Television merge and create a new company Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television. This is the beginning a process that would see the consolidation of ITV over the next decade. 5 October – Following the merger, Yorkshire simulcasts its overnight service on Tyne Tees and relaunches it as Nightshift. 1993
The news service is produced and broadcast from studios at The Watermark, Gateshead [1] with reporters also based at a Teesside office in Billingham.Both regional services (i.e ITV News Tyne Tees and Lookaround) use the same presenter(s) and studio/set, therefore one of the two programmes—depending on the day's news—is pre-recorded 'as live' shortly before broadcast.
Pages in category "ITV timelines" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. ... Timeline of TVS; Timeline of Tyne Tees Television; U.
Following rule changes in 1992, Yorkshire-Tyne Tees resumed their alliance under the name Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television (YTTT) plc. The two stations were integrated to a far greater extent. Following the takeover, 292 jobs were axed at the two broadcasters; [ 29 ] 174 at Leeds, and 115 at Newcastle, with a further three from airtime sales in ...