   university challenge is a british quiz programme that has aired since 1962. university challenge aired for 913 episodes on itv from 21 september 1962 to 31 december 1987, presented by quiz master bamber gascoigne. the bbc revived the programme on 21 september 1994 with jeremy paxman as quiz master. the current holders are trinity college, cambridge, who won the 43rd series in 2014. the show is produced by granada (re-branded as itv studios in 2009). it was filmed at granada studios in manchester from its inception until the studios closed down in 2013; it is now filmed at mediacityuk in salford. ==history== ===format continuity=== despite periodic changes to the sets, studio layout, and presentation, university challenge has evolved in a manner which has preserved a remarkably high level of continuity from 1962 to the present. some commentators have cited this as an essential element of its success.see don't ever change, university challenge by harry mount, the daily telegraph, 7 april 2014. elements of this continuity include: *the long service of its quiz masters, with only two presenters over more than half a century of broadcasting history; *the instantly recognisable split-screen presentation, which appears to place one team physically above the other (parodied by an actual double-decker set in the mock edition in the young ones - see below); *long serving voiceover announcers, with only three in more than half a century - don murray-henderson from 1962 until his death in 1971, then jim pope until his death in 2001, then [[roger tilling
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