16 Facts About ITV Yorkshire

ITV Yorkshire, previously known as Yorkshire Television and commonly referred to as just YTV, is the British television service provided by ITV Broadcasting Limited for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network.

Yorkshire Television Ltd is, along with most other regional companies owned by ITV plc, listed with Companies House as a dormant company.

ITV Yorkshire, previously known as Yorkshire Television, and sometimes abbreviated to YTV or Yorkshire, has its origins in the 1967 franchise round.

Telefusion ITV Yorkshire Limited, created by the Blackpool-based TV rental chain Telefusion and led by Grampian TV Managing Director G E Ward Thomas, was selected as the winning bid.

Thereafter, ITV Yorkshire ran a teletext-based Jobfinder service for one hour after closedown with a Through Till Three strand on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights introduced a few months later.

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The ITV1 Yorkshire branding has appeared before some regional programming until November 2006, when a rebrand saw the sole local ident discontinued.

In March 2009, ITV Yorkshire plc announced that the Leeds Studios were to be largely closed in an effort to save costs following a reported loss of £2.

However, seven months later ITV Yorkshire changed its mind, choosing instead to close the nearby studios dedicated to the production of Emmerdale and transferring production of this programme to Kirkstall Road which would be upgraded for HDTV production.

On 5 January 1987, ITV Yorkshire Television introduced a new ident, entitled "Liquid Gold", featuring a pool of liquified gold, with the chevron rising up from it, and rotating into the sky, where the station name joins it.

On 1 September 1989, Yorkshire Television adopted the first ITV generic look, featuring the large ITV logo; an additional ident, with a static chevron on the same background, was used.

On 8 November 1999, ITV Yorkshire Television adopted the second generic look, based on the theme of hearts, which was used for the entirety of the branding period before network programming.

However, for local programming, ITV Yorkshire created their own ident featuring a background of spinning chevrons, with pictures of the region featuring inside a central box.

In Drama ITV Yorkshire Television had many critical successes including, as listed below.

In comedy, ITV Yorkshire TV produced many popular shows such as, as listed below.

ITV Yorkshire Television produced the 1989 documentary One Day in the Life of Television.

YTV re-introduced 24-hour programming 18 months later along with the rest of the ITV Yorkshire network, beginning full-time 24-hour broadcasting on 30 May 1988.