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1970. 6 April – HTV starts broadcasting in colour, [1] initially only from the Wenvoe transmitter in Wales and from this day the station becomes known on the air as HTV. 30 May – A separate HTV West service is launched on UHF from the Mendip transmitter [2] which coincided with a new full-evening news programme for the region called Report West.
The launch of Harlech Television in May 1968 led to the launch of a full half-hour evening news programme, Report, broadcast to South Wales and the West of England.. Previously, former ITV franchise holder for Wales and the West of England TWW had provided short evening bulletins known as TWW Reports, presented jointly from studios in Cardiff and Bristol, where the station ran a joint news ...
ITV Wales and West, previously known as Harlech Television (HTV), was an ITV franchisee in the United Kingdom until 31 December 2013, licensed to broadcast by the regulator Ofcom.
Following the merger to form ITV West Country, most of Westcountry's operations were transferred to HTV's West headquarters in Bristol, where production of the regional news service is now based. The only operation left in Plymouth is a newsroom and sales office, alongside two newsrooms in Truro and Exeter .
ITV News West Country is a British television news service broadcast and produced by ITV West Country. It is broadcast from studios in Brislington, Bristol, with district reporters and camera crews based in newsrooms at Plymouth, Exeter, Truro, Taunton, Swindon and Gloucester. The programme currently transmits into two sub-regions.
ITV West Country is the British television service provided by ITV Broadcasting Limited for the South West England franchise area on the ITV network.Previously, between 2009 and 2013, the area was a non-franchise region, branded with the same name, incorporating the former ITV Westcountry franchise area and the ITV West sub-region of the ITV Wales & West franchise.
HTV (West) ITV1 West of England; ITV1 West [note 9] South West England: 29 April 1961 ... ITV West Country: News: ITV West News: ITV West and Westcountry: South West ...
March – HTV West's main evening news programme is renamed The West Tonight. The change co-insides with the opening of a digital broadcast centre at HTV's Bristol studios. [15] 31 August – Television schedules are dominated by coverage of the Diana, Princess of Wales's car accident. ITV cancels its regular programmes to provide non-stop ...