TV Times

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The TV Times is a television listings magazine published in the United Kingdom. It was launched in 1955, but became a national magazine only in 1968. Prior to 1968 several of the regional ITV companies - Westward Television, Scottish Television, Tyne Tees Television, Ulster Television, TWW and Teledu Cymru (and briefly WWN) - produced their own listings magazines. The Midlands originally had their own edition of TV Times listing ATV and ABC programmes, but a separate listings magazine in the Midlands called TV World existed from 1964-68 before TV Times went national.

Channel Television continued to publish its own listings magazine for several years after 1968 (it was feared that the company might go under without the revenue from its own magazine).

TV Times currently publishes listings for all major television channels but before 1991 it published listings for ITV and (from 1982) Channel 4 only. Although every ITV region originally had its own version, there are now only 4:

England - All ITV and BBC regions in England
Scotland - STV, ITV Border and BBC Scotland
Wales - ITV Wales, S4C, BBC Wales
Northern Ireland - UTV, BBC Northern Ireland, RTÉ and TV3

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Radio Times

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ITV

Companies: ITV plc • SMG plc • UTV plc • Channel Television Ltd

ITV Franchises

Northern Scotland: Grampian, STV North • Central Scotland: Scottish, STV Central • Scottish/English Border and Isle of Man: Border • Northern Ireland: UTV • North East England: Tyne Tees • Yorkshire/Lincolnshire: Yorkshire • North and North West England: ABC, Granada • Wales and the West of England: TWW, WWN, ITSWW, HTV • Midlands: ATV, ABC, Central • East Anglia: Anglia • London: Rediffusion, ATV, Thames, LWT, Carlton • South and South East England: Southern, TVS, Meridian • South West England: Westward, TSW, Westcountry • Channel Islands: Channel

National franchises

Breakfast: TV-am, GMTV/GMTV2 • Teletext: ORACLE, Teletext Ltd.

Non-franchise regions

STV • ITV Thames Valley • ITV London

News: ITN, ITV News • Sport: ITV Sport • Children: CITV • Online: itv.com, ITV Local • Mobile: ITV Mobile • Weather: ITV Weather