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Timeline Of London Weekend Television
This is a timeline of the history of the British broadcaster London Weekend Television (now known as ITV London at weekend). It has provided the ITV weekend service for London since 1968. 1960s * 1967 ** LWT is awarded the London weekend franchise. The new franchise includes Friday evenings so LWT broadcasts from 7pm on Fridays as well as Saturday and Sunday. * 1968 ** 2 August – LWT goes on air, for fifteen seconds because this day is the start of the technicians strike which forces ITV off the air for several weeks although management manage to launch a temporary ITV Emergency National Service with no regional variations. * 1969 ** 15 November – LWT begins broadcasting in colour. 1970s * 1970 ** 18 September – LWT launches its famous river ident. * 1971 ** February – Rupert Murdoch becomes Managing Director. * 1972 ** 1 October – LWT launches the UK's first Sunday politics programme, ''Weekend World''. It continues until 1988. ** LWT opens its purpose-built studios ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Weekend Television
London Weekend Television (LWT) (now part of the non-franchised ITV London region) was the ITV network franchise holder for Greater London and the Home Counties at weekends, broadcasting from Fridays at 5.15 pm (7:00 pm from 1968 until 1982) to Monday mornings at 6:00. From 1968 until 1992, when LWT's weekday counterpart was Thames Television, there was an on-screen handover to LWT on Friday nights (there was no handover back to Thames on Mondays, as from 1968 to 1982 there was no programming in the very early morning, and from 1983, when a national breakfast franchise was created, LWT would hand over to TV-am at 6:00am, which would then hand over to Thames at 9:25am). From 1993 to 2002, when LWT's weekday counterpart was Carlton Television, the transfer usually occurred invisibly during a commercial break, for Carlton and LWT shared studio and transmission facilities (although occasionally a Thames-to-LWT-style handover would appear). Like most ITV regional franchi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gay Life (TV Series)
''Gay Life'' is a documentary television programme broadcast by London Weekend Television (LWT) in 1980. It was produced by Michael Atwell at LWT's London Minorities Unit, and was the United Kingdom's first LGBT television series. Production Michael Atwell said programme could claim to be "the first time in the world that a major national TV company has given a whole series to gays". Three members of ''Gay Life'' production team were gay, including Attwell, who said the staff felt that they were "in a sense trying to ride two horsesputting forward the gay viewpoint and relating to non-gay people". This was encapsulated for the production team by the slogan "For and about gays". ''Gay Life'' was first broadcast late on a Sunday evening in the London region, on 10 February 1980 at 11:30 pm. Notable contributors included comedian Graham Chapman, who spoke of his experience as a gay parent in the February 24 episode. Reception The debut episode was reviewed by John Russell Taylor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlton Television
Carlton Television (now part of the non-franchised ITV London region) was the ITV franchise holder for London and the surrounding counties from 9.25am every Monday to 5.15pm every Friday. The company is now managed with London Weekend Television as a single entity (ITV London), but the two companies are still separately licensed. The station is owned and operated by ITV plc under the licensee of "ITV Broadcasting Limited". Carlton has been branded on air as "ITV1" since 28 October 2002, and as "ITV" since 14 January 2013. Carlton legally exists currently listed on Companies House as a privately owned company, and its previous subsidiary Carlton UK Television Limited which is now known as ITV Consumer Limited and legally operates ITV plc's websites. As Carlton's name has no relation to its region, its on-screen identity has been completely removed (along with those of HTV, LWT and GMTV). Other regions have kept their original company name as a region name and in their local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London News Network
London News Network (or LNN) was a television news, production and facilities organisation in London. It was created in 1992 as a joint operation between London's two ITV contractors, Carlton Television and London Weekend Television, with each company holding a 50% stake. Overview After weeks of shadowing Thames and LWT, LNN debuted on air on 1 January 1993 as Carlton replaced Thames Television as London's weekday ITV franchise. The company's flagship programme, ''London Tonight'' launched three days later, replacing the previous separate news services provided by Thames and LWT. The company's headquarters were located at The London Television Centre on the South Bank (home to LWT and The London Studios). A view of the London skyline, including St. Paul's Cathedral, could be seen from the window set of Studio 7, the main news studio. LNN continued production of ''London Tonight'' (and ''London Today'') until 2004, when ITN took over those responsibilities. The final edition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV News London
''ITV News London'' is a British television news service broadcast on both ITV London and the ITV Hub. It is produced by ITN. History London News Network The programme launched on Monday 4 January 1993 as ''London Tonight'', after Carlton Television won the London weekday franchise from previous holder Thames Television. ''London Tonight'' was originally produced by London News Network – a joint venture between Carlton and LWT designed to provide a sole ITV regional news service for the London area, broadcasting seven days a week. Its creation established a continuity between the once separate services and presentation of the weekend and weekday news, weather and sport in the region, previously provided by ''Thames News'' and ''LWT News''. The flagship programme, initially an hour-long and presented by Alastair Stewart and Fiona Foster, was supplemented by shorter ''London Today'' bulletins, launched on 4 January 1993 (LWT discontinued its own local news service the previ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LWT News
''LWT News'' was a regional news service provided by London Weekend Television, serving the Greater London area in various formats between January 1982 and 3 January 1993. History On Friday 1 January 1982, LWT began extending its broadcasting hours on Friday evenings - taking over from the ITV London weekday franchise Thames Television at 5:15 pm, rather than the previous start time of 7pm. The Independent Broadcasting Authority's decision to award extended hours to LWT meant that the station became contractually responsible for providing the regional news programme on Friday evenings. Prior to the franchise round, the regulator had warned that the winning London contractors were expected to provide an improved regional news service for the capital throughout the week. The Authority suggested that the two companies provide a jointly produced seven-day news service, but the idea was rejected by both Thames and LWT as unfeasible. The companies argued there would be little news to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Network
''Night Network'', ''Night Time'' and ''Night Shift'' were names given to the overnight (usually between 12 and 6am) schedule of the ITV (TV network), 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 stations 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. As each franchise was taken over however, the services became fewer in number. Today, all of the ITV plc regions (except ITV Channel Television and UTV for legal reasons), show teleshopping, followed by repeats of daytime programming and then ''Unwind with ITV'' (previously the ''ITV Nightscreen'' service was shown until October 2021). STV (TV channel), STV bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
