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ATV: The Entertainment Network 1955-1981 | ITV in the Midlands and London

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THIS IS ATV NETWORK from Transdiffusion

  • The Midlands in 1963
    • In vision
    • Local interest
  • People
  • Presentation
    • ATV Sunspots 1968
  • Programmes
    • Gerry Anderson
    • Gallery
  • Studios
    • Alpha Studios
THE MIDLANDS IN 1963
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  • The Midlands in 1963

This Exciting, Medium

Sir Robert Renwick, Bart., KBE 16 November 2017 0

An introduction to ATV Midlands

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  • The Midlands in 1963

Foreword

Philip H Dorté, OBE 16 November 2017 0

The Midlands Controller welcomes you to ATV

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  • The Midlands in 1963

Associated TeleVision Limited

ATV the Midlands 16 November 2017 0

Who are ATV Midlands?

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  • The Midlands in 1963

The way ahead

ATV the Midlands 16 November 2017 0

Why restricted broadcasting hours must go, especially in the Midlands

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  • The Midlands in 1963

Drama – Plays – Players

ATV the Midlands 16 November 2017 0

ATV's programming output from 1956 to 1963

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  • The Midlands in 1963

Impact with Interest

ATV the Midlands 16 November 2017 0

Important and impactful programmes from ATV

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ATV PEOPLE
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  • People

Introducing Edward J. Roth, Deputy Managing Director

Norman Hare 2 July 2025 0

The latest deputy managing director joins ATV to work with Lew Grade

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  • People

This team helped to make history

Norman Hare 18 June 2025 0

ATV's Telstar men

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  • Staff profiles

The Val Parnell Story: When Judy Garland had to be pushed on…

John Cumberland 28 May 2025 0

The final part of ATV's staff newspaper's look back at their managing director's career

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  • Staff profiles

The Val Parnell Story: Crazy, Gang Crazy!

John Cumberland 27 May 2025 0

The second part of the ATV staff newspaper's look back

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  • Staff profiles

The Val Parnell Story: They called his father ‘Variety’s first gentleman…’

John Cumberland 26 May 2025 0

As managing director Val Parnell retires, ATV's staff newspaper looks back at his long career

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  • People

Our Midlands party

ATV Newsheet 30 April 2025 0

The ATV staff celebrate five years of serving the Midlands

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ATV PRESENTATION
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  • Presentation

Success for graphic design

ATV Newsheet 3 September 2025 0

ATV's Graphic Design department is honoured by International Advertising Art

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  • Presentation

ATV Sunspots

Associated TeleVision Corporation Limited 27 August 2021 0

The hottest thing in holiday advertising!

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  • Presentation

Magnificent trio

Valeen Marriott 24 December 2020 1

Meet the three ATV announcers who will be working over Christmas in 1974

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  • Presentation

On the dot with that spot

Bill Evans 8 June 2018 0

Routine sheets get the ads to the viewer with split-second timing in 1957

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  • Presentation

Sound and vision

Transdiffusion Broadcasting System 24 February 2018 0

⧉ Over on the main Transdiffusion site, watch a recreation of ATV London starting the day in 1964

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  • Presentation

Weekend routine

Transdiffusion Broadcasting System 26 December 2017 2

A look behind the scenes at ATV London's last Saturday

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ATV PROGRAMMES
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  • Gerry Anderson

Supercar’s big success – the inside story…

Val Parnell 20 August 2025 0

ATV's managing director talks about the success of the latest Gerry Anderson series

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  • Programmes

In the shadow of The Saint

Yvonne Stoll 23 July 2025 1

Yvonne Stoll has been seconded from the press office to The Saint's production office and finds the star truly charming

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  • Programmes

Drama for everyone!

ATV Souvenir 31 July 2024 0

ATV's dramatic output in the 1950s

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  • Programmes

Chris, Sally and Spit – organising meyhem every Saturday

TVTimes magazine 15 May 2024 0

It's Saturday morning madness!

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  • Programmes

This hospital serial really does help

Dr Harvey Flack 12 April 2023 0

Emergency – Ward 10 reaches its 100th episode

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  • Programmes

The Palladium Show is ‘in the van’

Charles Gretton 29 March 2023 0

Sunday Night at the London Palladium involves spending Sunday day in a van behind the theatre

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ATV STUDIOS
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  • Studios

The facts behind the Elstree studio strike

Val Parnell 6 August 2025 0

Val Parnell gives the management's side of the dispute that overtook the opening of the new studios at Elstree

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  • Studios

New offices for midlands

ATV Newsheet 16 April 2025 0

ATV moves into new offices in Edmund Street

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  • Studios

Engineers on parade…

ATV Newsheet 5 March 2025 0

An exhibition of television technology at ATV House

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  • Studios

Colour TV in Piccadilly

ATV Newsheet 19 February 2025 0

ATV starts experiments in the exciting world of NTSC colour

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  • Studios

ATV’s own spectacular!

Birmingham Evening Mail 15 November 2024 0

ATV Midlands is even more colourful than before!

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  • Studios

Outside Broadcasts

ATV Souvenir 1 May 2024 0

Not everything comes from ATV's studios – sometimes the cameras go out and about

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ATV COMPANY
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  • Company

Sir Robert Renwick looks ahead at the Company’s future

Norman Hare 14 May 2025 0

ATV's new chairman on his – and the company's – past, present and future

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  • Company

From Fleet Street to television, there’s always a deadline to beat

Arthur Christiansen 2 April 2025 0

The former editor of the Daily Express becomes editorial advisor to ATV and plunges into the deep end

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  • Company

Report from Australia

John Patience 5 February 2025 2

The story of two years of progress at ATV's Broadcasting Associates Pty Ltd

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  • Company

Our men (and girls) in Moscow

Stephen Wade 19 December 2024 0

Stephen Wade's Russian scrapbook

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  • Company

Moscow here we come

ATV Newsheet 18 December 2024 0

ATV's programme exchange with the Soviet Union begins

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  • Company

This is Moscow!

Len Mathews 17 December 2024 0

ATV staff head to the Soviet Union for a television exchange programme

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