ITV

The ITV network is not owned or operated by one company, but by a number of licensees, which provide regional services while also broadcasting programmes across the network. All companies holding a licence were part of ITV plc, which commission and schedule network programming. All licensees have the right to opt out of network programming (except for the national news bulletins). ITV plc commissions and schedules network programming, awarded franchises, advertising operations and have a great influence over schedules, content and technical standards. All transmitters are owned and operated by Arqiva

As a public service broadcaster, the ITV network is obliged to broadcast programming of public importance, including news, current affairs, children's and religious programming as well as party election broadcasts on behalf of the major political parties and political events, such as the Budget. The network also needs to produce accessible output containing subtitles, signing and audio description. In exchange for this programming, the ITV network is available on all platforms free to air and can be found at the top of the EPG of all providers.

(Independent Television News Limited (ITN) holds the contract to produce news for Channel 4 and Channel 4 News bulletins are broadcast under the ITN brand, Channel 4 News will take place at Majestic, Leeds). 5 News is at 17-29 Hawley Crescent, Camden Town, London. Channel 5 HQ is at Northern & Shell HQ.

ITV Night Time were names given to the overnight (usually between 12 to 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. At first, individual companies created their own services, however before too long, many of the smaller ITV station began simulcasting or networking services from others. From this, numerous services began each offering their own distinct take on programmes, with regions taking one of the services on offer.

## **History**

The ITV network came about as a result of the Television Act 1954, which paved the way for the establishment of a commercial television service in the United Kingdom and created the Independent Television Authority (ITA). The act itself was not without controversy, and much debate ensued both in the British Parliament and the British Press, and it was passed on the basis that the ITA would regulate the new service and ensure that the new service did not follow the same path taken by the American networks (which were perceived as 'vulgar' by some commentators). For example, it was made obligatory that commercials be clearly distinguishable from programmes. At the time, programmes in the USA were normally sponsored by a single company, so it was not uncommon for a game show host to step away from their podium after a round to sell cars or The Flintstones to segue into an ad for cigarettes with no perceived change from show to advertising.

The new "Independent Television" network, named due to its independence from the BBC which until then had a monopoly on broadcasting within the United Kingdom, was made up of numerous companies providing a regional television service and would also generally provide programmes to the network as a whole. Each individual company broadcast on 405-line VHF and was responsible for providing a local service, including daily news bulletins and local documentaries, and for selling advertising space on their channel: this measure ensured that all the ITV companies were in competition with each other and that no single broadcaster could gain a monopoly over commercial broadcasting. However, national news was not provided by the individual companies and was instead provided by Independent Television News (ITN). Each regional service had its own on-screen identity to distinguish it from other regions, since there was often a sizeable overlap in reception capability within each region.

Upon the creation of the network, six franchises were awarded for London, the Midlands and the North of England with separate franchises for weekdays and the weekends. The companies in these regions were known as 'The Big Four' and consisted of Associated-Rediffusion (London weekday), ATV (Midlands weekday and London weekend), Granada Television (North of England weekday) and ABC (North of England and Midlands weekend). These companies were generally the best known and provided the most network output.

ITV was admitted as an active member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) through the Independent Television Companies' Association Ltd (ITCA) together with the Independent Television Authority (ITA) in 1959.

### 1955–1968

* South West: Westward
* South East: Southern Television
* East of England: Anglia
* London (weekday): Rediffusion
* London (weekend) and Midlands (weekdays): Associated Television (ATV)
* Midlands (weekends): ABC Weekend
* North West and Yorkshire: Granada
* North East: Tyne Tees
* Channel Islands: Channel Television (CTV)
* Wales: Teledu Cymru (Wales Television)
* North Scotland: Grampian
* South Scotland: Scottish Television (STV)
* English-Scottish Border and Isle of Man: Border Television

### 1968–1981

Another franchise review was called by the ITA on 12 June 1967, for contracts running from the end of July 1968, that was to drastically change the structure of ITV itself. The review aimed to ensure that the ITV system was ready for the impending arrival of colour broadcasting, and also to again allow for the potential start of ITV2, should the Conservatives win any general election held after 1970. The behaviour of some of the companies only reinforced the ITA's assumptions of 'arrogance' following the few changes in the last franchise round: Rediffusion London's department managers also popped up in similar roles for rival applications and TWW reapplied for their contract under both their own name and that of WWN/Teledu Cymru as a tax dodge. As a result, Lord Hill had made it clear in 1966 that "all bets were off" on the next franchise round and that the regions themselves might change. Therefore, in the period between the interviews of each applicant and the announcement of the changes, the newspapers speculated wildly about the likely changes: suggestions were made of Scottish Television exiting the system, Rediffusion London moving to replace Southern Television and various other wild ideas. In the end, the changes made to the ITV regions were as follows:

* The weekend franchises in the North of England and the Midlands were abolished.
* The North of England region was split into two new smaller regions, the North West and Yorkshire. Seven-day contracts were specified in both these new regions, as well as in the Midlands.
* Separate weekday and weekend franchises continued in London; however, the handover time was moved from the beginning of Saturday to Friday at 7.00pm.

The ITV companies themselves changed considerably. Some merely had their contracts changed, while others were replaced altogether by new companies. The changes were as follows:

* TWW controversially lost the Wales and West of England franchise to a new company, Harlech Television (later shortened to HTV in April 1970). Unhappy with the development, TWW ceased broadcasting on 4 March 1968 - nearly 5 months before its contract was due to expire - with the ITA providing an interim service until Harlech Television took over on 20 May.
* ATV lost the London weekend franchise to a consortium led by David Frost, called the London Television Consortium, which was soon renamed London Weekend Television. It had been expected that ABC would take over this franchise.
* ATV was awarded the seven-day contract for the Midlands region, replacing ABC at the weekends.
* Granada Television was awarded the seven-day contract for the new North West region, again replacing ABC at the weekends.
* Two consortia applied for the new Yorkshire region, Telefusion Yorkshire and Yorkshire Independent Television. The region was awarded to Telefusion, on the basis that it merged with Yorkshire Independent. The merged company took the name Yorkshire Television, replacing Granada on weekdays and ABC at the weekends.
* Rediffusion and ABC were asked to form a joint company for the London weekday franchise, in an attempt by the ITA to keep ABC in the network. This company, Thames Television, was controlled by ABC, who owned 51% while Rediffusion owned 49%.
* Roy Thomson, later Baron Thomson of Fleet, was required to divest himself of most of his holding in Scottish Television.

In addition, the Independent Television Publications company was formed to produce a national ITV programme schedule listings magazine. This magazine was called the TVTimes, originally the title of the London listings magazine (and also briefly used by the Midlands magazine). It replaced all of the regional magazines, except the Channel Islands publication, which continued until 25 October 1991.

Before the changes were implemented, however, the prime minister Harold Wilson appointed Lord Hill as chairman of the BBC Board of Governors and replaced him with Herbert Bowden, also known as Lord Aylestone. He reviewed the changes Hill had made, but allowed them to stand.

### 1982–1993

On 28 December 1980, the IBA announced via Lady Plowden, the then chair of the IBA, that it had reviewed the ITV broadcasting licences again, for contracts beginning on 1 January 1982. A few changes were made to the ITV structure, with the creation of dual regions for the South and South East, and the East and West Midlands. These regions were created following the push for more regional news. The company operating these regions had to provide a regional news service for both regions and provide studio facilities in both areas. The franchise round concluded with the following changes:

* ATV was re-awarded its contract for the dual Midlands region, but was considered by the IBA to have not focused on the region enough. As a result, changes were ordered including the diluting of existing shareholdings, greater production facilities in the contract area and the sale of Elstree Studios; to emphasise these actions the company was told to rename itself. It settled on the name Central Independent Television.
* Southern Television lost its licence for the South and South East England, in favour of South and South-East Communications, but later renamed Television South (TVS).
* Westward Television also lost its licence for South West England, being replaced by Television South West (TSW). TSW ended up taking over Westward Television on 11 August 1981, but continued to use the Westward Television name until 1 January 1982.
* The new nationwide breakfast television service was awarded to TV-am.
* Trident Television was ordered to sell the majority of its holdings in Yorkshire Television and Tyne Tees Television, and the two companies became independent of each other again.
* The Bluebell Hill transmitter in Kent was transferred from Thames Television/LWT to TVS, to increase the size of TVS' South East sub-region.

Another expansion came on 14 September 1987, when ITV Schools programming was transferred to Channel 4 (and S4C), freeing up a large section of the daytime schedule for new shows. This expansion in programming, and in advertising time, helped give the stations a boost.

1987 also saw the companies beginning to move into night-time broadcasting. This began with individual efforts by individual companies, primarily the 'Big 5' (Thames Television, LWT, Central Independent Television, Granada Television and Yorkshire Television), before collaborative efforts resulted in the whole network operating 24 hours a day by the autumn of 1988. Notable efforts included Granada Television's Night Time (which also went out to Tyne Tees Television, TSW, Border Television, Grampian Television and Ulster Television), LWT's Night Network (which also went out to Anglia Television), TVS' Late Night Late (which also went out to Channel Television) and HTV's Night Club; later efforts included ITV Night Time from Thames Television and LWT (which also went out to TVS, HTV, Anglia Television and Channel Television) and Night Shift from Yorkshire Television and Tyne Tees Television.

Channel 4 had launched on 2 November 1982, originally it built on the ITV network for its funding, whereby the ITV companies sold Channel 4's airtime. This arrangement ended on 31 December 1992, after which a 'funding formula' continued, whereby the ITV companies would subsidise Channel 4 if it fell into the red. However, it never did, and the funding formula was withdrawn in 1998. During this 16-year period, Channel 4 and ITV would regularly cross-promote each other's programming, free of charge.

Another new venture was the ITV Telethon, this biennial routine event held in 1988, 1990 and 1992, saw the regional companies and the national network come together to raise money for charity. The 27-hour telethons were eliminated following the change of culture at ITV following the franchise changes in 1993.

ITV introduced its first official corporate logo and national on-air identity on 1 September 1989; this was an attempt to unify the network under one image while still allowing for regional identity. However, 6 companies refused to use their versions of the generic ident (Anglia Television, Channel Television, TVS and TSW), preferring to stick with their distinctive on-screen branding, the ITV branding was dropped in 1993

Central - DC Thomson (15%), Ladbrokes (10%), Pergamon (9%) and British Rail (2%).

In May 1983, ACC finally sold off its stake in Central – Sears Holdings purchased 20% while Ladbrokes and DC Thomson also increased their stakes to 20% each, and Pergamon took its ownership to 12.5%, with 27.5% being held by single stakeholders

In March 1987, Carlton Communications acquired 20% of Central from Ladbrokes for £30million which finally gave Carlton its first stake in a terrestrial broadcasting company, after a bid to buy Thames Television was blocked by the IBA two years beforehand

### The Broadcasting Act of 1990

The Broadcasting Act 1990 paved the way for the deregulation of the British commercial broadcasting industry, which was to have many consequences for the ITV system.

As a result of this Act, the Independent Broadcasting Authority was abolished, and replaced by 2 new 'light-touch' regulators: the Independent Television Commission (ITC) and the Radio Authority. The small Cable Authority was also abolished, its powers transferred to the ITC. The act also changed the system of licence allocation for the franchises now legally known as **Channel 3**: the previous system where applicants needed to show good programming ideas and fine financial controls was replaced by highest-bidder auctions to determine the winner of each ITV regional franchise. This element of the ITV franchising process was very controversial; the press and the existing ITV companies lobbied to have it changed and the ITC agreed to introduce a 'quality threshold' to prevent high bidders with poor programme plans from joining the system. Another safeguard was the 'business plan' which determined if a bidder could maintain the payments due and still retain money for programme making.

Other changes were also made as part of the act: ITN, the news provider for ITV, was no longer to be exclusively owned by ITV companies. Additionally, Channel 4, which had previously been an independent subsidiary of the IBA, was now to become a government-owned corporation, patterned after the BBC. It would also begin to sell its own advertising – a function previously provided by each ITV company as a return for subsidising the channel.

One further change in the 1990 Act related to the way the ITV networking system was run. Since the 1960s, the Independent Television Companies' Association's Programme Controllers' Committee, representing the 'Big Five' network companies (Thames, LWT, Central, Granada and Yorkshire) had decided which programmes had aired in network programme time slots. This had the effect of excluding smaller ITV companies, as well as independent production companies. Following lobbying by independent producers and TVS, the Act required that ITV's scheduling be performed by a nominated person independent of the regional companies, and that a 25% threshold of independent production be required. This led to the creation in 1992 of the ITV Network Centre, a central body in charge of the network schedule, with, for the first time, a single ITV Director of Programming.

### 1991

As a direct result of the franchise bid:

* Thames Television controversially lost the London weekday franchise to Carlton Television. However, Thames continued to produce programmes for ITV and other channels, such as The Bill, This Is Your Life, Mr. Bean and Minder.
* TV-am lost the national breakfast television franchise to Sunrise Television, which changed its name to Good Morning Television (GMTV) before launch because of a dispute with British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) over the name 'Sunrise'.
* Television South (TVS) lost the South and South East England franchise to Meridian Broadcasting.
* Television South West (TSW) lost the South West England franchise to Westcountry Television.
* ORACLE lost the national teletext franchise to Teletext Ltd.

### 1993–1997

Ownership rules, that previously restricted ownership of ITV licences by 1 company to 2 outright, plus 20% in a 3rd, were relaxed as were mergers and takeover of other ITV networks.

* Yorkshire Television acquiring Tyne Tees Television in June 1992, forming a parent group called Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television Holdings
* On 6 December 1993, Granada Television had a hostile takeover for LWT, worth £600 million.
* In early 1994, Anglia Television was bought by MAI (owners of Meridian Broadcasting), who merged with United Newspapers to form United News and Media.
* In January 1994 Central was bought in its entirety by Carlton for £750 million. Because of Central's shareholdings, Carlton inherited a 20% stake in Meridian Broadcasting
* In October 1996, Granada purchased HTV.
* 25 November 1996, Carlton purchased Westcountry Television for £85 million (later re-branding it Carlton, along with Central)
* Granada acquired Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Holdings on 26 June 1997 thought to be worth about £800 million
* In July 1997, Granada Television acquired Border Television from Capital Radio Group and moved presentation and play-out facilities to Leeds.
* In early 1998, Granada purchased Anglia and Meridian, whilst selling off HTV (not including it's studios) to Carlton to comply with the then-current regulatory requirements

Carlton re-branded all of its stations with its own name, creating a single identity across the whole expanse of its territory. By contrast, Granada, while keeping the franchisees names, centralised their continuity departments in Leeds. Both of them however, merged the network production operations of their franchises, creating Carlton Productions and Granada Content. By 1998:

* Granada: Anglia, Border, Meridian, Yorkshire, Tyne Tees
* Carlton: Westcountry, HTV,

Throughout this period, the ITV companies sought to expand into the new, multi-channel environment forming in the United Kingdom. On 1 October 1996, Granada Television launched 4 channels through a joint venture with BSkyB entitled Granada Sky Broadcasting. These 4 channels, Granada Plus, Granada Good Life, Granada Men & Motors and Granada Talk TV, respectively focused on repeated entertainment programming from the Granada Television archives, women's lifestyle programming, programming for men and televised interactive debating. Granada Talk TV closed down on 31 August 1997 after only 10 months on air due to low viewership, while Granada Good Life rebranded to Granada Breeze on 1 May 1998. In September 1996, Carlton Television launched Carlton Food Network, a cable-only cookery channel, and on 1 November 1996, a joint venture between STV and BSkyB was launched, entitled Sky Scottish, and aimed mainly at Scots who lived outside Scotland. While Sky Scottish closed on 31 May 1998 due to low viewership, Carlton expanded its channels, launching Carlton Select on 14 February 1997 followed by Carlton Cinema, Carlton Kids and Carlton World on 15 November 1998. However, all but Carlton Cinema closed shortly into the new millennium, mainly due to low viewership and cost-cutting in light of the cost of funding ONdigital.

### 1998–2002

By January 1998, Granada Television and Carlton Television owned the majority of the ITV franchises with Channel Television and STV remaining independent. From here, the companies further consolidated their channels. On 5th October 1998, a brand new hearts-based on-air ITV logo and identity was introduced that would see a complete change in the way ITV presented itself on-screen. With the impending launch of digital television and more choice than ever before in their history, it was decided to scrap regional names on screen in favour of a single ITV brand identity across the country, they also wanted to avoid brand confusion [source]. Regional logos and names would be relegated strictly to regional programming and news, including idents. All other networked presentation was to be ITV only, used by the 12 franchises of the ITV Network in the United Kingdom

In addition to franchise mergers, in 1998 the Independent Television Association and Network Centre formally merged, becoming "ITV Network Limited". At the same time, a new lower-case ITV network logo was introduced at the same time for use around the network and includes the tagline: "TV from the heart". The new logo design was meant to appear friendlier to the viewer.

Despite these larger companies having launched their own services a few years previously, Granada Television and Carlton Television collaborated to launch a new service on 7 December 1998: ITV2. The new channel expanded network ITV programmes and launched on multiple services, giving additional appeal to the style of ITV itself in light of new competition from channels operating on satellite, cable and more recently digital terrestrial television (DTT). However, ITV2 only launched in England and Wales, leaving STV and Channel Television to use the multiplex space in their respective regions to whatever purpose they saw fit. As a result, SMG launched S2 on 30 April 1999, offering similar programming tailored for their region. By 22 January 2002, however, both channels had ceased and were replaced by ITV2 itself.

On 1 August 2000, ITN, the news producer for the ITV Network, launched the ITN News Channel in a joint venture with NTL (now Virgin Media), which provided rolling news on cable, satellite and digital terrestrial. Following the increase in ITV-branded channels and services, including ITV2 and ITV Digital, the decision was taken by Carlton Television and Granada Television to rename the ITV Network in their regions as **ITV1**

Another venture initiated by Carlton Television and Granada Television was jointly bidding for the newly created DTT licence. The companies jointly bid with BSkyB for the licence under the company name British Digital Broadcasting and won; however, BSkyB was forced to withdraw following competition laws. Carlton Television and Granada Television launched the service on 15 November 1998 as ONdigital, and ran the service that housed other free-to-air channels. However, BSkyB had launched its own service, Sky Digital, the previous month and following a heavy promotional campaign by Sky, which compared the Sky Digital service to ONdigital's service and always to Sky's benefit, ONdigital started making heavy losses. In a resort to keep the venture afloat, Carlton Television and Granada Television used the name of ITV to boost the success of the company. The newly named ITV Digital launched on 11 July 2001, complete with an expensive advertising campaign featuring Al and Monkey, and an exclusive deal to air the Football League on the newly created ITV Sport Channel. However, the venture was still not bringing the results required and ITV Digital went into administration on 27 March 2002, with the ITV Sport Channel closing 2 months later. This led to criticism of Carlton Television and Granada Television from STV and Channel Television which objected to the ITV name being reduced following the collapse of the service.

The pinnacle of ITV's consolidation was the merger of Carlton Television and Granada Television on 11 August 2001 [source]. The two companies had previously tried to merge twice before in the 1990s; however, the government and competition laws prevented this from occurring. But on 21 October 2001, the government announced that it would no longer prevent a merger from taking place, subject to safeguards being set in place to ensure the continued independence of SMG, Ulster Television and Channel Television. Carlton Television and Granada Television finally merged at the end of January 2002, with Granada Television shareholders owning 68% of the new company, ITV plc, and Carlton Television shareholders owning the remaining 32%. ITV plc was floated on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol 'ITV' on 2 February 2002. The new company owned all the ITV regions in England, Wales and the Scottish Borders. The choice of the name "ITV plc" was controversial, since it could imply that the company ran the entire network, and an agreement had to be reached with STV and Channel Television before the name could be used.

The day of the merger was marked by significant changes throughout the ITV plc regions. All of the ITV plc regional news programmes received a new look in line with the national ITV News bulletins and the regional company logos were replaced officially with an ITV logo followed by the company name below – these began to appear on production captions and as part of other branded output, such as weather summaries. As a result of the merger, ITV plc was faced with a surplus of facilities it no longer needed. Studio and production facilities were replicated many times over, many of which were becoming costly to maintain due to age and difficult to justify following technological advancements. As a result, regional news moved into smaller offices and studio facilities were sold off. Anglia Television's separate studio facility was sold off as an independent studio, as was HTV's main studio in Cardiff. However, Tyne Tees Television' Newcastle studios and Meridian Broadcasting's Southampton studio complex were closed completely and demolished, both broadcasters moving to smaller regional news bureaux. The reduction in the size of the organisation and in the number of transmission centres resulted in a large number of job cuts.

ITV Wales was the only exception, using the name ITV1 Wales at all times for the Welsh part of its broadcast area, as it has a higher regional commitment. Latterly, the ITV1 Wales name was only used on break-bumpers and regionally advertised programmes until 2013.

**Post-consolidation**

ITV plc reviewed its digital channel portfolio. In June 2002, ITV plc bought the ITN News Channel from ITN, renaming it the ITV News Channel three months later (although the service was still produced by ITN). Following the success of ITV2, compared to the other ITV-branded channels, a further channel ITV3 was launched on 1 November 2004. The channel replaced Granada Plus and aired archive programmes, notably drama. On 1 November 2005, ITV plc launched another new channel aimed specifically at men: ITV4. This channel became notable for airing programmes such as classic 1960s ITC Entertainment series and alternative sports such as the British Touring Car Championship. The new channel featured a new-look ITV logo, which was officially rolled out across the network on 9 January 2006. The new look was more coherent than previous looks, and was also voluntarily adopted by Channel Television. 2006 also saw the launch of the CITV channel, which used the airspace previously used by the ITV News Channel which had closed down on 23 December 2005, and of the participation television channel ITV Play, which turned out to be controversial and closed down the following year.

ITV plc began to look at high-definition television on 9 June 2006, when it launched an experimental channel, ITV HD, primarily for airing the 2006 FIFA World Cup (to which ITV held the rights) and classic films. ITV HD was launched as a permanent channel in June 2008, showing its own schedule of programmes in HD acquired by ITV plc. The channel re-branded as ITV1 HD in December 2009, before becoming a full simulcast of ITV1 on 2 April 2010. The launch of the simulcast service saw the end of the last Granada channel, Men & Motors, which was closed down on 1 April 2010 to make room for ITV1 HD on other platforms. On 7 October 2010, ITV plc launched ITV2 HD, an HD simulcast of ITV2, followed on 15 November by ITV3 HD and ITV4 HD. All three of these channels were initially only available on the Sky platform.

## **TV Regional Channels**

Each regional member of ITV contributes programming to the channel's schedule in proportion to the population of the area it serves. As of 2017, the time allocations as percentage shares of total broadcast hours were:

### **Regional news**

30-minute regional news bulletins broadcast at 1pm and 6pm. The 10pm news show shows national news bulletins and is one the shows there there are no regional opt-outs, produced by ITV News.

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On Sundays there is no ITV News at Ten instead it's ITV Nightly News at 11pm, due to ITV's Premier League highlights starting at 9pm and finishing at 11pm. ITV News is held at ITN headquarters, 200 Gray's Inn Road, London, England

ITV Weather. ITV News Pollen Report

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## **ITV Sport**

**Presenter history**

* Jimmy Hill (1968–1973)
* Elton Welsby (1973–1980; 1990–1994), would also present On the Ball (1978–1985), Olympics, Granada Goals Extra (until 2004) and Results Service (until 1992)
* Jim Rosenthal (1980–1983)
* Richard Keys (1983–28 December 1990). Jim Rosenthal as interviewer
* Bob Wilson (1994–1999)
* Des Lynam (1999–2004)
* Gabby Logan (2004–December 2006)
* Steve Rider (December 2006–May 2010)
* Adrian Chiles (May 2010–23 January 2015)
* Mark Pougatch (24 January 2015–present)

**Commentator history**

* Brian Moore (1968–1971; 1979–1998). Ian St. John co-commentator from 1979
* Kenneth Wolstenholme (1971–1979)
* Clive Tyldesley (1998–present)
* Number 2: Brian Moore (1971–1979)
* Number 2: Martin Tyler (1979–1985)
* Number 2: Alan Parry (1985–1996)
* Number 2: Clive Tyldesley (1996–1998)
* Number 3: Martin Tyler (1985–1990)

ITV show highlights from Division 1 to Division 5 regionally:

* ITV Goals on Sunday-"You Are The Number 1" by The Union
* FA Cup on ITV-"Abide with Me"

**DOG score bug history**

* 1992/93
* 1993/94 - 1994/95
* 1995/96 - 1996/97
* 1997/98
* 1998/99
* 1999/2000
* 2000/01 - 2001/02
* 2002/03
* 2003/04 - 2004/05
* 2005/06
* 2006/07 - 2013/14
* 2014 FIFA World Cup
* 2014/15 - 2017/18
* Snooker

## **Shows**

ITV Day was a programming block that broadcast on ITV from 10am until 6pm on weekdays

* Good Morning Britain presented by Kirsty Gallacher and Eamon Holmes broadcast live every weekday from 6:00am to 9:00am across Britain and Northern Ireland. The programme features a variety of news, interviews, politics, sport, entertainment, competitions and weather as well as local news bulletins delivered by the ITV regions.
* Challenge Anneka
* The Beast Must Die
* The Watch
* Mind Field
* Whitstable Pearl
* Alex Rider
* The Masterplan
* Life As I Know It
* The Graham Norton Show (on Saturday evening) located at Studio TC1, Television Centre, London, England
* The Time, The Place
* Wish You Were Here...?
* Black Mirror
* Lingo presented by Ben Shepard
* Are You Smarter than a 10 Year Old? hosted by Noel Edmond
* The Cube hosted by Vernon Kay located at Television Centre, London
* Mastermind hosted by Chris Tarrant located at MediaCityUK, Salford, Greater Manchester, England
* University Challenge hosted by Jeremy Paxman located at MediaCityUK, Salford, Greater Manchester, England
* Jeremy Clarkson presents Who Wants To Be A Millionaire [Intro] located at MediaCityUK, Salford, Greater Manchester, England
* Dancing on Ice hosted by Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield
* The Chase and Beat The Chasers hosted by Bradley Walsh located at Elstree Studios, Boreham Wood
* The Grand Tour (from 2019)
* Beat the Brain with £3000 to each player speed it up and come up with harder tasks
* Bullseye hosted by Lee Mack (“Oci, Oci, Oci” on S4C)
* QI by Stephen Fry
* The Lie (S4C *Celwydd Noeth* ("Bare-Faced Lie"), is on STV, presented by Scottish comedian Susan Calman)
* Countdown
* Challenge Anneka
* Taskmaster

Countdown presented by Jeff Stelling from 2021. Anne-Marie Imafidon (2009-2020), Rachel Riley (2020-present)

### Ninja Warriors

A physical obstacle assault course game show. The show was based upon the format of Japanese game show Sasuke, created by Ushio Higuchi, which was aired in the United Kingdom and other countries as Ninja Warrior. Presented by Ben Shephard and Chris Kamara, the show focuses on around 250 contestants tackling a variety of obstacles along an assault course, the most notable being the "warped wall", and achieving a fast time or going the furthest to qualify for the semi-finals and the finals, with the competitor who goes furthest fastest in the final being declared "Last Ninja Standing". If a competitor completes the final obstacle, "Mt Midoriyama" in under 45 seconds, they will be declared winner of the contest and crowned "Ninja Warrior UK".

### The Krypton Factor

Hosted by Chris Hero. Located at MediaCityUK, Salford, Greater Manchester, England

* The Krypton Factor lasts for 30 minutes

Contestants from across UK and Ireland competed in 5 rounds that tested their physical stamina and mental attributes. The title of the show is a reference to Superman's home planet Krypton, the title perceiving that the contestants had strong superhuman "powers" for taking part in the challenges they were set. The contestants all had their own corresponding colour, either red, green, yellow or blue. The points contestants earned through the game were not referred to as their score, but as their "Krypton Factor", e.g. "The winner, with a Krypton Factor of 46, is the legal secretary from Kent, Mike Berry".

#### Round 1: Mental Agility

Contestants individually complete in 45-second speed test with questions asked by Chris Hero, using the tiebreaker rules when there is a tie for first place. This often took the form of a memory test (though other versions would require mental computation of time and date differences, or to add up a sequence of numbers and return the number which, when added to that sum, gave a pre-determined answer). The contestants frequently had to memorise a sequence and then answer a series of progressively more complicated questions. For instance, if the sequence to be memorised was a series of coloured blocks, the questions might start as "What is the colour of the 3rd block from the left?" and progress to "What is the colour of the block 2 to the left of the block to the right of the green block?". Other forms of memory test might require contestants to remember a phrase or proverb and answer a series of questions about it (e.g. "What was the 5th letter of the 4th word?" or "Spell the last word backwards").

#### Round 2: Observation

This round often involved watching a specially made film clip or a clip from an ITV or BBC drama series that was being broadcast at the time, or an edited together clip from a feature film which was out in that particular year, contestants answer 6 multiple-choice questions relating to the clip (e.g. "What did he say when he entered the room?" or "What was on the table?"), and the time used to provide the correct answers was used to break ties.

#### Round 3: Intelligence

A 2 or 3-dimensional puzzle where shapes had to be put together to fill a rectangular grid or make a bigger shape was the basis for this round. Most of these were devised by Dr. Gerry Wickham of the University of Manchester's School of Mathematics. As the contestants performed the task, presenter Chris Hero provided a commentary to viewers at home on the contestant's progress and advice on how to solve the puzzle. The contestants do not see beforehand what the completed puzzle should look like.

#### Round 4: Physical ability

Assault course is a simple Hunger Games type of scenario, and last man standing wins. Gordon Burns stated in some of the episodes that the contestants trained for the assault course in the Physical Ability round for up to 5 weeks in advance

#### Round 5: General Knowledge

60 question round on any random topic and only 1 player could answer each question. It is conducted in darkness using a side shot of the 4 contestants lit in profile - when a contestant buzzed in, the remaining three players' spotlights would go out. A correct answer is worth 2 points, an incorrect answer means you'll lose 2 points, the round lasted 60 seconds.

The player with the highest Krypton Factor won the game, and in the event of a tie, the tied players were asked further questions until the tie was broken.

### Songs of Praise

Religious programme that presents Christian hymns sung in churches of varying denominations from around the UK, originally on BBC until 2017.

#### A Cup Final

ITV

* Good Morning Britain (6:00-9:30)
* FA Cup 50 Greatest Moments (9:30-11:30)
* The Road to FA Cup Glory (11:30-12:30)
* The Chase FA Cup Special (12:30-13:25)
* The Road to Cardiff (13:25-13:55)
* The Big Match LIVE: FA Cup Final (13:55-18:30)
* ITV FA Cup Final highlights (21:55-22:30)

**ITV4**

* FA Cup Rewind: Classic Final (9:30-10:30)
* FA Cup CD:UK (13:00-13:25)

### ITV Christmas Day

* ITV Panto "Jack and the Beanstalk" and "Aladdin". "Dick Whittington" and "Cinderella" aired on New Year's Day
* 10am-Christmas Worship-1 hour
* 1pm-Christmas Carol-1 hour
* Christmas Film
* The Gospel According to St Matthew
* Christmas Presence

## **Piers Morgan v PJW feud controversy**

Piers Morgan wanted the country locked down and chastised those who were against lockdowns and masks as "idiots" and "granny killers", Paul Joseph Watson criticised the comments in a Tweet and provided 'evidence' to support why he's against lockdowns and masks.

Piers would respond "You're a repulsive, racist, far-right, Muslim-hating, conspiracy theorist imbecile who works for a website that says Sandy Hook was invented and yet I should believe you how exactly? Please now f\*ck off", Paul Joseph Watson responded "Says the bloke who invented British soldiers torturing story, hacked dead people's phones, bribed police for information, bought £67,000 of shares before they were tipped, Told mental health abusers to man up, Slammed Ariana Grande for no reasons. Yet I'm the "imbecile", I crave your disapproval given, now how about you do everybody a favour; take your morale compass & grifting fat ass and f\*ck off," he also followed it up by denouncing the "racist, far-right, Muslim-hating" claims and also the "conspiracy theorist that says Sandy Hook was invented" saying and showing 'evidence' that he did not in fact believe Sandy Hook was 'invented'. Both of Paul Joseph Watson's tweets (as well as Morgan tweet on PJW) received thousands of retweets and likes, Clarkson (who punched Morgan) famously liked it himself.

Piers Morgan then went on Good Morning Britain and go on a 30-minute rant about him, calling him a 'scumbag, criminal, Nazi, domestic terrorist, criminal and spanner', the rant was strongly criticised and received thousands of complaints to Ofcom, Paul Joseph Watson would respond to the claims in a heated surly response on his official YouTube channel and end it by saying "See you in court Piers", Paul Joseph Watson would later officially file a 'defamation' court case against Piers Morgan. Piers was taken off TV (but not fired) and replaced with Richard Madeley. Morgan would tweet that he wanted to 'bankrupt' and wanted Paul Joseph Watson's kids to 'starve', which received condemnation and Morgan later deleted the tweet, Paul Joseph Watson responded by saying "Thanks for making my case stronger and more evidence in my favour you thick fat t\*\*t".

Piers Morgan would lose the case and had to give out more than £40 million worth of damages, ITV would officially fire Piers as a result. Piers blamed 'snowflake' Paul Joseph Watson for the firing and said he did not 'regret a word I said', Paul Joseph Watson responded by celebrating Morgan's firing, calling him a 'hypocritical grifting c\*\*t" and telling him to "go to the retirement home where you belong".

## **Personnel**

* Sean Fletcher - S4C News presenter
* Ant & Dec presents America's Got Talent and American Idol
* BBC - Brit Awards, BAFTA Film Awards
* Tom Scott presents

### Sport[edit | edit source]

ITV Sport studio is at Here East [source], The Olympic Park, Stratford, London

ITV BFL outro

ITV Eight Nations Studio

ITV UCL studio

**Football**

Presenter

* Mark Pougatch
* Laura Woods
* James Richardson
* Gabby Logan
* Matt Smith
* Jim Rosenthal
* Darrell Currie
* Jake Humphrey
* Colin Murray

Pundit

* Alan Shearer
* Roy Keane
* Gary Neville
* Martin O’Neill
* Slaven Bilic
* Glenn Hoddle
* Peter Crouch
* Gordon Strachan
* Arsene Wenger
* Gus Poyet
* Paul Scholes
* Jamie Carragher
* Neil Lennon-FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euros pundit
* Jose Mourinho-FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euros pundit
* Frank Lampard-FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euros pundit
* Howard Webb-Referee analyst

Interviewer

* Gabriel Clarke-Reporter
* Celina Hinchcliffe-Reporter
* Emma Saunders-Interviewer
* Kelly Somers-Interviewer
* Clive Tyldesley and Andy Townsend-Main UEFA Champions League and England commentary team as well as commentary team 2 for FA Cup and Football League matches
* Peter Drury and Jim Beglin-Main commentary team for FA Cup and Football League matches
* Ian Darke
* Jon Champion and Ally McCoist-FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euros and FA Cup main commentary team. UEFA Champions League commentary team 3
* Sam Matterface-FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euros and FA Cup commentary team 4
* Tony Jones-FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euros and FA Cup commentator 5

**S4C**

* Malcolm Allen-Welsh language commentator
* John Hartson-Welsh language pundit
* Emyr Davies, Mike Davies, Llyr Huws Gruffydd and Gary Pritchard

**Rugby**

* Jill Douglas-Presenter
* Topsy Ojo-Pundit
* Maggie Alphonsi-Pundit (Also works for BBC Sport & Sky Sports)
* Danielle Waterman
* Nick Heath-Commentator

**Darts**

* Jacqui Oatley