The current Channel TV ident

Channel Television (CTV) is a British television station which has served as an Independent Television (ITV), contractor to the Channel Islands since 1962. Image File history File links The current (2005) Channel Television (ITV Channel Islands) ident. ... Independent Television (ITV) is the name given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up to provide competition to the BBC. In England and Wales the channel was recently rebranded ITV1 by ITV plc who own the regional broadcasting licences for the regions. ... The Channel Islands are a group of islands off the coast of Normandy, France, in the English Channel. ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The Channel Islands, principally Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark, are located in the Gulf of St Malo, over 100 miles south of the British mainland, and very near the coast of France. They are not considered part of the United Kingdom, but as crown dependencies. Flag of Alderney Alderney (French Aurigny) is the most northerly of the Channel Islands and a British crown dependency. ... Flag of Sark Sark (in French, Sercq, in Sarkese Sèr) is a small island of the Channel Islands, part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey. ... Crown dependencies are possessions of the British Crown, as opposed to overseas territories or colonies. ...

From the point of view of television coverage, the BBC has always treated the islands as an extension of their South West region, relaying programmes from Plymouth to the islands. (The BBC now does broadcast a separate version of the regional news bulletin, Spotlight for the Channel Islands.) However, as the smaller areas of Britain acquired their commercial television channel in the late 1950s and early 1960s, local opinion was that the Channel Islands should have their own franchise. Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... Smeatons tower on Plymouth Hoe Plymouth is a city in the South West of England, or alternatively the Westcountry, and is situated within the traditional county of Devon. ...

This posed a problem to the Independent Television Authority as, constitutionally, the Television Act 1954 did not apply to the islands so the ITA's ability to operate there had to be permitted by means of extending the Act to the islands by means of an Order-in-Council. Secondly, was the problem of connecting the islands to the rest of the ITV Network -- the solution was to build a relay station on Alderney, the northernmost island, which would then send the network feed from Southern Television (or its later successors TVS and Meridian Television) to Channel Television's studio in Jersey; this was initially a problem because the existence of the relay station meant that Alderney itself could not have a broadcast service from the start of broadcasting, and the local authorities refused to lease land to the ITA for the relay station. This problem was eventually overcome, and CTV went on the air on September 1, 1962 -- the penultimate ITV franchisee to go on air, and serving the smallest population, only about 150,000 people in 54,000 households. The Independent Television Authority (ITA) was a body created by the Television Act 1954 to supervise the creation of Independent Television (ITV), the first commercial television network in the United Kingdom. ... The Television Act 1954 was a British law which permitted the creation of the first commercial television network in the United Kingdom, ITV. Royal Assent was given to the Act on 30 July 1954. ... An Order-in-Council is an executive order issued in Commonwealth Realms operating under the Westminster system. ... Independent Television (ITV) is the name given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up to provide competition to the BBC. In England and Wales the channel was recently rebranded ITV1 by ITV plc who own the regional broadcasting licences for the regions. ... Southern Television colour logo, 1969-1981 Southern Television was one of the original ITV companies, serving the south and south-east of England from August 30, 1958 until 12:45 AM on January 1, 1982. ... TVS, or Television South, was the ITV franchise holder in the South of England which replaced its predecessor, Southern Television on the morning of 1 January 1982 (the first show - Bring in the New - was hosted by Khalid Aziz). ... Meridian is the ITV station for the South and South East of England. ... September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Channel TV logo, 1980s

The small size of the station, once described as "television in miniature", while having implications for the profitability of the company, has on the whole been to its advantage. It has an extemely close relationship with its viewership, reflecting daily life and government in the islands, and while not producing large numbers of programmes for the ITV Network at the start of the 21st century it does produce some five and a half hours a week of programmes for its own area, including the local nightly news Channel Report. This has posed a challenge as not only are the Bailiwicks politically separate from the UK, but also from one another. Channel TV (UK) 1980s logo This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... A bailiwick is the area of jurisdiction of a bailiff. ...

Local programmes include the children's programme Puffin Pla(i)ce, Rendez-Vous Dimanche in French, occasional programmes in Jèrriais and Dgèrnésiais, the insular dialects of Norman, and Telejornal, a short news item in Portuguese. (Jersey has a sizeable Portuguese minority, principally from Madeira.) Jèrriais is a form of Norman language spoken in Jersey in the Channel Islands. ... Dgèrnésiais tops this list of welcome messages at Guernseys tourism office in St. ... The Norman language is a Romance language, one of the Oïl languages. ... For other uses of the word, see Madeira (disambiguation) Madeira Islands location. ...

Channel Television was the only ITV franchisee not to be affected by the technician's strike in the summer of 1968, as it was understood by all that any strike action would probably put the company out of business. Similarly, Channel was not affected locally by the ITV Strike of August to October 1979, when the rest of the ITV Network was blacked out for ten weeks by another technicians dispute: while the rest of the network was displaying an on-screen caption, Channel continued to broadcast twelve hours a day of films and local news bulletins, as well as other programmes from the ITV archives.

Channel Television was not challenged for its franchise in the 1967 and 1981 franchise rounds. In 1991 it defeated a challenger for its franchise, CI3 TV, with a bid for £1,000 (the minimum bid possible).

In 2012, the UK plans to complete its 5-year process to cease Analog television broadcasts region-by-region with Channel Televison being the last area to switch off. Analog television encodes picture information by varying the voltages and/or frequency of the signal. ...

External Link

• Channel Television
• Original animated Channel TV ident, 1962, from 625.uk.com (Requires Macromedia Flash version 4 or later).

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