We are proud to have been the only truly regional television network in Britain since our creation in 1955 to provide quality television for local audiences.
We believe our regional strengths go beyond the quality of our various regional services. Our nationally networked programmes are made throughout the country, with about half of all commissioned programmes produced outside London.
Click on the region you are interested in to find out more.
ITV Border
On January 15th, 1959 a quarter of a million people tuned in to the first transmission from Tyne Tees Television’s City Road studios.
ITV Tyne Tees
ITV Tyne Tees has been part of ITV since 1959 when the first broadcast was made on 15th January. It is the only regional commercial broadcaster ever to serve the Northeast. ITV Tyne Tees serves a region bounded in the north by the Scottish Borders, stretching 150 miles to Selby in the South and across the Pennines to Scarborough. Tyne Tees is also home to the award-winning SignPost unit, which provides signed and subtitled programming to a variety of broadcasters.
ITV Granada
ITV Granada has been broadcasting since 1956. The transmission region stretches from the Lake District to Telford, and from ColwynBay as far as the Pennines, and includes the major cities Liverpool and Manchester. ITV Granada broadcasts to 11.7% of UK homes – over 2.75 million households, reaching 6.2 million viewers.
ITV Granada produces a strong line-up of both Regional and National programmes, including Coronation Street; You've Been Framed, Tonight with Trevor McDonald and ITV Granada Reports.
ITV Yorkshire
ITV Yorkshire covers a very large broadcasting area, which includes North, South, West and East Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and parts of North Norfolk, North Nottinghamshire and North Derbyshire.
ITV Yorkshire is well known in the media industry for its excellent dramas produced out on location. These programmes are often filmed on tape or film and vary from children’s drama through to A Touch of Frost. One of ITV Yorkshire's strongest associations is with its long running serial drama – Emmerdale and catching up are dramas such as Heartbeat and The Royal
ITV Wales
ITV Wales broadcasts for the whole of Wales from its studios at Cardiff and its offices at the National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff Bay, Carmarthen, Newtown, Colwyn Bay and Caernarfon. It also has two satellite trucks to cover any stories that break anywhere in Wales.
ITV Wales produces more than two hundred hours of English language news for Wales with its seven days a week news service and its weekday prime time news programme Wales Tonight. ITV Wales broadcast programmes for ITV1 covering Welsh current affairs, consumer issues, politics and the arts, and also produces Welsh language programmes for S4C, the Welsh Channel Four.
ITV Wales’ programmes have a broad appeal to our viewers in all parts of Wales, reflecting our cultural identity and the diverse mix of our population
ITV Central
ITV Central covers 25% of the landmass of England, stretching from the Welsh Borders to the Wash, the Peak District through to the Home Counties. It is home to 9.4 million people, 16% of the UK population and covers all or part of four government regions. It is the UK's largest commercial centre outside of London with over 370,000 companies.
ITV Anglia
Based in Norwich, ITV Anglia broadcasts to the East of England. The station went on air in 1959 and today serves a population of more than 4 million from its headquarters. Its transmission area covers the East of England, encompassing some nine counties and stretches from the Wash to the Thames and westwards to Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
ITV West
ITV West started broadcasting as part of Television Wales and the West (TWW) in the 1950's before becoming HTV in 1968 and then ITV West in 2004. In February 2008 it combined parts of its new service with ITV Westcountry. The studios are based in Bristol's Bath Road.
The ITV West has an available audience of 2.5 million, its region extends east as far as Swindon, north as far as Tewkesbury, west to the Devon border and south beyond Dorchester. It produces the 6pm flagship news programme The West Country Tonight as well as weekday and weekend news bulletins and the monthly political show, The West Country at Westminster.
ITV London
Broadcasting to 10 million viewers across the Greater London area, ITV London offers a regional news service, a broadband TV service and a diverse schedule of regional programmes. Providing a high quality regional service that reflects the breadth of interests and issues that are of importance to the diverse communities within the London region, ITV London transmits to London and the Home Counties
ITV Westcountry
ITV Westcountry broadcasts to Cornwall, Devon, the Isles Scilly and much of Dorset and Somerset. It has an available audience of just over 2 million. Regional broadcasting began in the far South West of England with Westward in 1961, before becoming TSW in 1981 and then Westcountry in 1993. Most recently it combined part of its news service with ITV West in February 2008 .
It broadcasts the 6pm flagship news programme The West Country Tonight as well as weekday and weekend news bulletins and the monthly political show, The WestCountry at Westminster. It has offices in Plymouth, Exeter and Truro.
ITV Thames Valley
ITV’s newest news region, ThamesValley began broadcasting in December 2006. ThamesValley has bases in Abingdon, Oxfordshire and Whitley in Hampshire. ThamesValley produces regional programmes such as, Country Ways, Coastal Ways,A Taste of the South, Soccer Night, Last Work and River walks.
ITV Meridian
ITV Meridian has been on the air since the start of 1993. Its transmission area covers the ThamesValley, South and South-East of England - an area that extends from Weymouth in the West to Dover in the East, Banbury in the north to Brighton in the South – and including the Isle of Wight. It serves an audience of nearly 9 million people covering 12 counties and is geographically the biggest English news region. The news team is based across the patch at Whiteley in Hampshire, Maidstone in Kent, Abingdon in Oxfordshire, Brighton in Sussex, Reading in Berkshire, Poole in Dorset and Westminster.
The company's flagship is the daily news programme Meridian Tonight which features consistently among the UK's highest rated regional news magazines – it won the Royal Television Society’s nations and regions news award this year. Each night there are two editions of the programme covering the West and East of the ITV Meridian region.
Alongside Meridian Tonight is the current affairs programme ‘The Last Word’ which analyses European, Parliamentary and local government political issues from a regional perspective.
