Timeline of ATV

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This is a timeline of the former British television broadcaster Associated Television (ATV). It provided the ITV service for London at weekends and the Midlands on weekdays from 1955 to 1968, and for the Midlands all week from 1968 to 1982.

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1960s

1970s

1980s

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  3. ↑ ATV Today – A Midland Montage Archived October 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine , transdiffusion.org
  4. ↑ BBC Elstree Archived 17 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine at TV Studio History, URL accessed 6 November 2015
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  6. ↑ History of ITV studios in London, tvstudiohistory.co.uk
  7. ↑ Barker, Dennis (18 March 2015). "Shaw Taylor obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  8. ↑ "Hackney Empire Archives". National Archives. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
  9. ↑ Promo for launch of ATV from the Oxford transmitter
  10. ↑ Rogers, Jeremy. "ATV (Associated Television) History". Independent TeleWeb. Archived from the original on 4 February 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
  11. ↑ ATV final closedown, Central start-up 1/1/82
  12. ↑ Grade is ousted in £37 m ACC takeoverBrown, MaggieThe Guardian (1959-2003); 15 January 1982;
  13. ↑ IBA gives ACC go-aheadThe Guardian (1959-2003); 2 June 1982;
  14. ↑ "Chronomedia: 1984"
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