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
Ex-radar man takes over admin post
Meet Bernard Blakemore, administrative assistant to Philip Dorté at ATV Midlands
The man behind our Space plan
Meet Len Mathews, ATV's assistant technical controller (communications and outside broadcasts)
The life of Riley!
Meet Joe Riley, a lift operator at ATV House
Life has been a song for Leslie!
Meet Leslie Abbott, ATV's head of contracts and copyright
Bernard Bibby, wine bottler
Meet Bernard Bibby, ATV's Production Facilities Controller
He does more than keep the books…
Meet Jack Barham, ATV's Company Secretary
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
Drama for everyone!
ATV's dramatic output in the 1950s
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
ATV’s own spectacular!
ATV Midlands is even more colourful than before!
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
The sky’s the limit for Associated TeleVision
A 1958 look at ATV's success
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