Yorkshire Television Ltd is, along with most other regional companies owned by ITV plc, listed with Companies House as a dormant company.
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17 Facts About Yorkshire Television
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Telefusion Yorkshire Television 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.
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In January 1970, a warning was given that regionalism would be abandoned and a forced merger with Anglia Yorkshire Television would happen unless the chancellor reduced the levy applied on advertising revenues, which was not helped by the high cost with colour television and the introduction of UHF, which the government agreed to a few months later.
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On 9 August 1986, Yorkshire Television became the first ITV company and the first British terrestrial television station to offer 24-hour broadcasting.
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Thereafter, Yorkshire Television 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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On 2 September 1996, Bruce Gyngell made the controversial move of re-branding Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television under the unified brand "Channel 3" While Yorkshire used a scaled-back version of this branding, Tyne Tees was re-branded as "Channel 3 North East".
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The ITV1 Yorkshire Television branding has appeared before some regional programming until November 2006, when a rebrand saw the sole local ident discontinued.
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Licence for Yorkshire Television is held by ITV Broadcasting Limited, part of ITV plc.
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On 5 January 1987, 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.
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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.
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Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television adopted a new branding package, based on the concept of Channel 3.
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On 8 November 1999, 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.
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However, for local programming, Yorkshire Television created their own ident featuring a background of spinning chevrons, with pictures of the region featuring inside a central box.
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Yorkshire Television was a major producer within the ITV network and produced programming in all genres.
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In Drama Yorkshire Television had many critical successes including, as listed below.
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In comedy, Yorkshire Television TV produced many popular shows such as, as listed below.
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Yorkshire Television produced the 1989 documentary One Day in the Life of Television.
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