ITV Border, previously Border Television and commonly referred to as simply Border, is the
Channel 3 service provided by
ITV
ITV or iTV may refer to:
ITV
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Broadcasting Limited for the
England/Scotland border region, covering most of
Cumbria
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,
Dumfries and Galloway, the
Scottish Borders and parts of
Northumberland
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It is bordered by land on ...
. The TV service previously covered the
Isle of Man
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from 26 March 1965 until 15 July 2009.
Border Television was taken over by
Granada plc
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in 2001 and a year later, as part of a network-wide re-launch, the name Border Television was dropped from on-air presentation, continuity and idents before networked programming in favour of the national ITV1 brand (ITV1 Border was used before regional programming). The licence for the region was transferred from Border Television to ITV Broadcasting Limited in November 2008. The legal name of the company was changed on 29 December 2006 from Border Television Ltd to ITV Border Ltd. This company is, along with most other regional companies owned by ITV plc, listed on
Companies House
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as a "
dormant company
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".
As of 25 February 2009, the regional news programme ''
Lookaround
ITV News ''Lookaround'' is a British television news service produced by ITV Tyne Tees & Border and broadcasting to the “Border” region.
Overview
The news service is produced and broadcast from studios at The Watermark, Gateshead with rep ...
'' was broadcast from the studios of
ITV Tyne Tees
ITV Tyne Tees, previously known as Tyne Tees, Channel 3 North East and Tyne Tees Television, is the ITV television franchise for North East England and parts of North Yorkshire.
Tyne Tees launched on 15 January 1959 from studios at a converte ...
in
Gateshead with news and advertising staff based at offices in
Carlisle
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and
Edinburgh
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. However, on 16 September 2013, a full regional news service for the Border region was restored as part of an extensive relaunch of the station's local programming. A sub-regional service for the south of Scotland was reintroduced in January 2014. (The third channel in the rest of Scotland is
STV.)
History
Launch
In May 1960, the
Independent Television Authority
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(ITA) invited applicants to provide the ITV service for the ''Borders'' region – an area that covered the English counties of
Westmorland
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and
Cumberland, the south of Scotland and later, the
Isle of Man
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.
Prior to this, the ITA had moved away from the idea of ''satellite stations'' (companies owned by distant management as seen with
Southern Television
Southern Television was the ITV broadcasting licence holder for the South and South-East of England from 30 August 1958 to 31 December 1981. The company was launched as 'Southern Television Limited' and the title 'Southern Television' was con ...
in the south of England) towards companies that had strong local ownership. The contract covered two new transmitters at
Caldbeck
Caldbeck is a village in Cumbria, England, historically within Cumberland, it is situated within the Lake District National Park. The village had 714 inhabitants according to the census of 2001.
Caldbeck is closely associated with neighbouring ...
, near
Carlisle
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and
Selkirk, near
Saint Boswells in the
Scottish Borders.
Granada Television and
ABC Weekend Television had laid a claim to providing service via Caldbeck whilst
Scottish Television
Scottish Television (now, legally, known as STV Central Limited) is the ITV network franchisee for Central Scotland. The channel — the largest of the three ITV franchises in Scotland — has been in operation since 31 August 1957 and is th ...
expressed a strong interest in Selkirk. The ITA rejected both these in favour of a new contract area and a new company to serve it – although they stipulated the area to be "marginal" in their plans and that applicants had to present a very strong business case for the area as well as the contract.
Two applications were received, one from Solway Television and another from Border Television. Border were chosen on the basis of their plans and management which was considered local but still featured names from large business (the then chairman of
Reuters
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The agency was estab ...
for example) and from the world of education.
Launch was scheduled for February 1961 but construction problems with both transmitters resulted in delays until May of that year. As this led into the summer holiday period, Border asked for a launch delay as the break would affect advertising revenue. Accordingly, Border launched on Friday 1 September 1961,
the 14th ITV station to go to air.
During its first year of operation, Border made a profit unlike other regional companies in their initial year, and by its second year, it had covered its launch costs, due mainly to a 60% audience penetration
in an area that, at the time, was largely ignored by the
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. From Friday 26 March 1965, the Isle of Man was added to Border's coverage area.
Initially, Border produced little for the network and concentrated on local programming, most notably its flagship local news programme ''
''. Later, when
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