This Exciting, Medium
An introduction to ATV Midlands
Associated TeleVision Limited
Who are ATV Midlands?
This Exciting, Medium
An introduction to ATV Midlands
Associated TeleVision Limited
Who are ATV Midlands?
The way ahead
Why restricted broadcasting hours must go, especially in the Midlands
Drama – Plays – Players
ATV's programming output from 1956 to 1963
Impact with Interest
Important and impactful programmes from ATV
‘No Flashy Dress’ ATV Announcers Warned
They may be faded out
‘I’m getting three years is hard’
Top producer BRIAN TESLER shortly goes over to Associated TeleVision from the BBC with one of the most tempting contracts ever offered in this country
Val Parnell – Paladin of the Palladium
TVTimes interviews the man behind Sunday Night at the London Palladium
Girl behind the news
Meet the woman who sells dresses by day and reads the local ATV news by night in 1956
Brian Tesler makes his ITV bow
TVTimes announces ATV's latest poach from the BBC - a producer named Brian Tesler - in 1957
Shaw Taylor
Meet ATV's Shaw Taylor, former actor, continuity announcer and now host of 'Pencil and Paper' in 1962
ATV Sunspots
The hottest thing in holiday advertising!
Magnificent trio
Meet the three ATV announcers who will be working over Christmas in 1974
On the dot with that spot
Routine sheets get the ads to the viewer with split-second timing in 1957
Sound and vision
⧉ Over on the main Transdiffusion site, watch a recreation of ATV London starting the day in 1964
Weekend routine
A look behind the scenes at ATV London's last Saturday
They keep you in the picture
ATV's continuity announcers and newsreaders in 1963
Chris, Sally and Spit – organising meyhem every Saturday
It's Saturday morning madness!
This hospital serial really does help
Emergency – Ward 10 reaches its 100th episode
The Palladium Show is ‘in the van’
Sunday Night at the London Palladium involves spending Sunday day in a van behind the theatre
The making of the Muppets
Inside ATV's international hit variety show
Annual Report 1969
1968 was a busy year for ATV Network, as this excerpt from their annual report for 1969 reveals
Watch carefully – it’s TV’s big night
Blair Thomson surveys the prospects of ATV-viewing after the 1968 regional reorganisation
Outside Broadcasts
Not everything comes from ATV's studios – sometimes the cameras go out and about
Wood Green Studio
Have a peep around ATV's London studio in 1958
Alpha Television studios
Visit our site all about Alpha Television studios, the home of ATV and ABC in the Midlands 1956-1968
Goodbye Aston, hello Broad Street
Joan Palmer hands over from Aston to Mike Prince at the Paradise Centre
ATV financial results: 1981
Lord Grade on Associated Communications Corporation's 1981 results
ATV financial results: 1980
Lord Grade on Associated Communications Corporation's 1980 results
ATV financial results: 1979
Lord Grade on Associated Communications Corporation's 1979 results
ATV financial results: 1978
Lord Grade on Associated Communications Corporation's 1978 results
ATV financial results: 1977
Lord Grade on Associated Television Corporation's 1977 results
ATV financial results: 1976
Lord Grade on Associated Television Corporation's 1976 results