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On 28 March 1977, Yorkshire Television launched a six-week breakfast television experiment. [4] Good Morning Calendar (a name later reused for its regional news programme in Good Morning Britain ) is credited as being the United Kingdom's first breakfast television programme, six years before the launch of the BBC's Breakfast Time .
ITV Yorkshire, previously known as Yorkshire Television, and sometimes abbreviated to YTV or Yorkshire, has its origins in the 1967 franchise round. That round stipulated that the influential pan-North region, the licence which was owned by Granada Television and ABC, both based in Manchester, had to be split up.
The Price Is Right (ITV 1984–1988, 1995–2001 & 2006–2007, Sky One 1989–1991, revived for Alan Carr's Epic Gameshow 2020) Primeval (2007–2011, Watch 2011) Prisoner: Cell Block H (on various ITV regions between 1984 and 1999; later on Channel 5 from 1997 to 2001) The Prisoner (1967–1968, remake 2009) The Professionals (1977–1983)
ITV Daytime is a British programming block on ITV, programmed by ITV plc. The block of programming begins at 6:00 am from Monday to Friday, and includes the ITV Breakfast programme Good Morning Britain .
From 1993, mergers between ITV companies became possible; as a result, companies began to take each other over to increase efficiencies and to expand. By 2004, all of the ITV franchises in England and Wales were owned by the newly formed ITV plc, the four other franchises being Scottish TV, Grampian TV, UTV and Channel.
Shine a Light (TV series) Shoot to Kill (1990 film) Singles (TV series) Sir Yellow; The Sky's the Limit (game show) Sorrell and Son (TV series) Stars on Sunday (TV series) Stay Lucky; Stay with Me Till Morning (TV series) Steel River Blues; Supply & Demand (TV series)
From the late 1990s, ITV's long-standing commitment to strong current affairs and documentary programming began to diminish with the ending of productions such as World in Action (Granada Television), This Week (Rediffusion London/Thames Television), First Tuesday (Yorkshire Television), Network First, Survival (Anglia Television), and Weekend ...
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.