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Central's overnight opt-outs from ITV Night Time end. 2004. A reduction in BBC Learning Zone's hours means that more airtime is given over to Pages from Ceefax. Scottish and Grampian (both branded overnight as Nighttime TV) continued to run its own overnight schedule until around late 2004. 2005
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 ...
Some broadcasters that have ceased signing on and signing off in favour of 24-hour broadcasting may perform a sign-off sequence at a certain time in the night (usually between 10:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m.) as a formality to signify the end of its operating day (in the United States, the broadcast logging day ends at 12:00 midnight local time).
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.
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.
15 July – The Six O'Clock Show is broadcast for the final time. 7 October – The Six O'Clock Show's replacement programme, Friday Now!, launches. [15] 1989. 28 July – Friday Now is broadcast for the final time. It is axed due to poor ratings. 1 September LWT adopts the new corporate ITV logo. [1] Friday Now is replaced by Six O'Clock Live ...
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 ...