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ITV
(first known as
Independent Television
) is a
public television broadcasting
service in the
United Kingdom
. It was set up in 1954 by the
Television Act 1954
provide
competition
to the
BBC
.
The Television Act 1954 outlined the service that Independent Television would produce. It also created the Independent Television Authority to manage the ITV network and its
transmitters
that would be used by the ITV companies to produce a regional service. In 1969, color television started in some areas of the ITV network and by 1975, the entire ITV network was in color.
In 1998,
ITV2
launched as a channel. It was mainly promoted with ONdigital (renamed
ITV Digital
in 2001) and it's subscription service even though ITV2 was
free to air
.
In 2002, all franchises in
England
and
Wales
started using the
ITV1
name.
In 2004,
ITV plc
launched
ITV3
as a free to air channel, replacing Plus (originally Granada Plus before Granada and Carlton merged into ITV plc.).
In 2005, ITV plc launched
ITV4
. The channel was supposed to replace
Men & Motors
, the last channel of the
Granada Sky Broadcasting
deal that was finalised in 1996, but it would end up replacing the ITV News channel.
In 2009, ITV1 HD launched as a high definition channel on
Freeview HD
and 5 months later on other platforms.
Listed as they were originally named and as they are known now: