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1973. 17 December – The British government imposes early close downs of all three television channels in the UK including ITV from 17 December 1973 in order to save electricity during the Three Day Week crisis. The early close downs forced ITV to end their broadcasting day at 10:30pm, thus losing the network a lot of advertising revenue.
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 ...
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 ...
1984. No events. 1985. 3 January – The last day of transmission using the 405-lines system. 1986. Channel Television switches its feed of the ITV network from TSW to TVS. 1987. 7 September – Following the transfer of ITV Schools to Channel 4, ITV provides a full morning programme schedule, with advertising, for the first time. By 1987 ...
1973. No events. 1974. ... 1984. No events. 1985. No events. ... ITV provides live extensive coverage of the Iraq War with extended news coverage on ITV and rolling ...
1973. No events. 1974. The Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) automatically extends all ITV franchise contracts from 1974 to 1981, owing to the enormous costs of introducing colour television. 1975. No events. 1976. May – LWT is reorganised, to form a new company, LWT (Holdings) Limited.
Replaced with ITV2 and ITV Sport Channel. Scotland only. — 799 — — ... Removed with closure of Top Up TV. 305 — — — TopUp Anytime3 Top Up TV
As part of the new service ITV's first lunchtime news programme, First Report, is shown. 29 December – The final edition of BBC2's news programme Newsroom is broadcast. It is replaced by a five-minute news summary. 1973. 2 January – A new late evening extended news bulletin News Extra begins broadcasting on BBC2. 1974