11 Facts About ITV Westcountry

ITV Westcountry, formerly known as Westcountry Television and Carlton Westcountry, was the ITV franchise holder for the south west of England, covering Cornwall, Devon, Isles of Scilly, southern and western Somerset and western Dorset.

ITV West Country incorporating the former ITV Westcountry and ITV West regions was a non-franchise ITV regional station covering south west England.

On 16 October 1991, ITV Westcountry was announced as the winner, bidding £7 million a year against TSW's bid of £16 million a year.

Subsequently, ITV Westcountry was re-branded as Carlton ITV Westcountry in September 1999, although only referred on screen as Carlton.

On 27 October 2002, Carlton Westcountry lost its regional identity, and became known as ITV1 Carlton prior to regional programmes only, while being known as ITV1 at all other times.

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ITV1 Westcountry was used for a time after this, although from 13 November 2006, the regional name was only verbally mentioned before any locally produced programming.

On 12 September 2007, ITV Westcountry issued a statement to the City of London, saying that it wished to reduce the number of news studios from 17 to just nine.

ITV Westcountry was originally based at Brittany Ferries' offices in Millbay Docks, Plymouth with a view to constructing a purpose-built studio centre on the Plymouth waterfront.

Up until early 2009, ITV Westcountry ran four sub-regional services, each providing short opt-out bulletins for their area during the flagship news programme ITV Westcountry Live and the late bulletin after News at Ten.

Between 1 January 1993 and 5 September 1999, ITV Westcountry's presentation featured that of a large 'W' shape on a frosted screen over a background video of a nature scene.

In 1999 the ITC again commented that ITV Westcountry provided a "regional service of generally high quality" and that overall its range of regional programmes was "wide and included some strong factual material", noting that one of its children's programmes had been supplied to the network.