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Feb 28, 2017 · In May 1955, one year later, the contract was signed which laid on Granada the responsibility for providing a weekday television service for the North of England. At this stage, apart from a contractual obligation, Granada TV consisted of little more than a general idea of what the new television service should seek to attain.
This is a timeline of the history of Granada Television (now known as ITV Granada), and of the television interests of its former owner Granada plc. Granada Television has provided the ITV service for North West England since 1968, and previously provided the service for the North of England on weekdays from 1956 to 1968.
TIMELINE. January 1, 1954. Company set up by Sidney Bernstein and listed on the Stock Exchange. 1954. The Independent Television Authority (ITA) awards Granada the franchise for the North of England.
Aug 2, 2020 · Histories and Memories of Granada TV in the North West of England, 1954-1990 (August 2020) This site is currently in the process of interviewing as many people as possible who were involved with Granada Television up until the ’90s.
Aug 3, 2015 · John Huntley talks about how he joined Granada TV and his first meeting with Gus MacDonald. I was at York University from ’69 to ’72. Also at York University was Jeremy Fox, who I met, and we used to do TV programmes.
Granada plc (previously called Granada Ltd, Granada Group plc, and Granada Media plc) was a British conglomerate best known as the parent from 1954 to 2004 of the Manchester-based Granada Television. The company agreed a corporate takeover of Carlton Communications in 2004 and Granada plc subsequently became ITV plc on 2 February 2004.
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May 30, 2010 · This was a 1977 TV commercial for a then large chain of television rental shops, extolling the virtues of their then new "Finlandia" range of colour televisions, domestic video recorders were still a couple of years away.
