User:Lolcatistan/ITV in AMTM AU


 * Run by just a few companies, currently the “Big 3” film companies of the UK:
 * Rapier Multimedia Corporation (electronics conglomerate)
 * Central Media Group (acquired by Rapier in 1998)
 * Alpha Television (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
 * Associated British Corporation (Northern Counties weekends)
 * Bermuda Television (Bermuda)
 * Big Ben Television (South London weekdays)
 * Cayman Islands Television (Cayman Islands)
 * Central Independent Television (West Midlands weekdays)
 * Hebrides Television (Northwest Scotland weekdays)
 * Independent Television Gibraltar (Gibraltar)
 * Irish Television (Ireland weekends)
 * Kai Tak Television (Hong Kong)
 * London Weekend Television (London and Home Counties weekends)
 * Marcher Television (North Wales weekdays)
 * Mercator Television (Montserrat)
 * Merseyvision (Liverpool weekdays)
 * Monte Carlo Television (South Midlands weekdays)
 * North West Television (Lancashire weekdays)
 * Palatine Television (Anguilla)
 * Propeller Television (Lincolnshire weekdays)
 * Sacreo Television (Connaught weekdays)
 * Scottish Television (Central Scotland weekdays)
 * Solway Television (Scottish Lowlands weekdays)
 * Tyne Tees Television (North East England weekdays)
 * Ulster Television (Ulster weekdays)
 * Wessex Television (West of England weekdays)
 * Yorkshire Television (Yorkshire weekdays)
 * Yorkville Television (Medway weekdays)
 * His Master’s Voice plc (retailer, record label, and film company)
 * Fremantle Media (acquired by HMV in 2002)
 * Albany Weekend Television (Scotland weekends)
 * Consolidated Midvision (Midlands weekends)
 * Diamond Television (East Midlands weekdays)
 * Grampian Television (Northeast Scotland weekdays)
 * Isle of Wight Television (Isle of Wight weekdays)
 * Northern Television (Borders weekends)
 * Thames Television (North London weekdays)
 * Three Counties Television (Home Counties weekdays)
 * TV3 Television (Pitcairn Islands)
 * Wales Television (South Wales weekdays)
 * Westcountry Television (South West England weekdays)
 * Global Radio (acquired by HMV in 2013)
 * Border Television (Cumbria weekdays)
 * Wales+West Television (Wales and West weekends)
 * ArgosyMTM Group Limited aka ICHC Holdings Group
 * TVS Entertainment Co. (once the main holding company for Argosy/MTM assets, now reduced to an ITV franchise operator)
 * Anglia Television (East of England weekdays)
 * Hibernian Television (Munster weekdays)
 * Lagan Television (Leinster weekdays)
 * Meridian Broadcasting (South East England weekdays)
 * Solar Television (South, South West, and Channel Islands weekends)
 * Television South (South of England weekdays)
 * Vypont Television (East and South East weekends)
 * Magnet Communications (mainly operates in the British Overseas Territories; acquired by Tiger Lee Clarke’s ICHC in 2004, which itself merged with Argosy in 2006)
 * Antarctica Television (British Antarctic Territory)
 * Antarctica Isles Television (British Antarctic Isles Territory)
 * Arctic Television (British Arctic Territory)
 * Caribbean Broadcasting Network (Turks and Caicos Islands)
 * Coastal Television (Akrotiri and Dhekelia)
 * Falkland Television (Falkland Islands)
 * Helena Television (Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan de Cunha)
 * Island Television (British Virgin Islands)
 * Oceanic Television (British Indian Ocean Territory)
 * Olympik Media (company based in the Isle of Man; formerly known as Digital Media until circa 2002; acquired by AMTM in 2012)
 * Channel Television (Channel Islands weekdays)
 * Manx Television (Isle of Man weekdays)
 * Sudrian Television (Isle of Sodor weekdays)
 * Western Coast Television (Man and Sodor weekends)

1968

 * Associated-Rediffusion (London weekdays): area split into 4 weekday regions (North London, South London, Home Counties, and Medway); bid for North London, but ordered to adopt a more regional name, becoming Thames; Big Ben Television, Three Counties Television, and Yorkville Television won licenses for South London, Home Counties, and Medway
 * Associated Television (Midlands weekdays): area split into 3 weekday regions (West Midlands, East Midlands, and South Midlands); bid for West Midlands and won: Diamond Television and Monte Carlo Television won licenses for East and South Midlands
 * Consolidated Television (Midlands weekends): ordered to adopt a more regional name: became Consolidated Midvision, or CMV
 * Granada Television (Northern Counties weekdays): area split into 4 weekday regions (Lancashire, Liverpool, Yorkshire, and Lincolnshire); bid for Lancashire and won: Mersey Television (now Merseyvision), Yorkshire Television, and Propeller Television won licenses for Liverpool, Yorkshire, and Lincolnshire
 * Television Wales and West (Wales and West weekends): became insolvent, shotgun-merged with competitor ITSWW (Independent Television Service Wales and West) to form Wales+West Television

1982

 * Associated Television (West Midlands weekdays): ordered to adopt a more regional name: became Central Independent Television
 * Paramount Southeast Television (South East England weekdays): lost franchise to Meridian Broadcasting
 * Southern Home Service (South, South West, and Channel Islands weekends): lost franchise to Solar Television
 * Southern Independent Television (South of England weekdays): lost franchise to Television South (TVS)
 * Wales West and North (North Wales weekdays): lost franchise to Marcher Television
 * Westward Television (South West England weekdays): lost franchise to Television South West (TSW)

1993

 * Granada Television (Lancashire weekdays): outbid by North West Television
 * Television South West (South West England weekdays): outbid by Westcountry Television
 * Television West (West of England weekdays): outbid by Wessex Television
 * Teledu Cymru (South Wales weekdays): outbid by Wales Television
 * Thames Television (first incarnation) (North London weekdays): outbid by Carlton Television

1995

 * Carlton Television (North London weekdays): franchise revoked by the ITC due to poor programming and incompetence; franchise returned to Thames, while remnants of Carlton were sold to the surviving Granada production company and reorganized as Central Media Group