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Yorkshire
Yorkshire Television’s Emley Moor mast, rebuilt in concrete after the original collapsed in 1969, is still the tallest freestanding structure in the UK.
REGION FILE
Yorkshire covers Yorkshire, north Derbyshire, north Nottinghamshire and north Lincolnshire. ITV first reached the area in 1956 through Granada and ABC; today the regional bulletin is ITV News Calendar. BritCast TV works anywhere here with broadband.
Who has run ITV here
- 1956–1968Granada and ABC (shared the North)
Before 1968 one contract covered the whole of the north of England. - 1968–Yorkshire Television
Built its Kirkstall Road studios in Leeds and launched Calendar the same year.
Made in the region
- Emmerdale
- Heartbeat
- Rising Damp
- Countdown (first shown on Channel 4)
- A Touch of Frost
Towns and cities covered
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Yorkshire: quick answers
Which ITV region am I in?
If you live in Yorkshire, north Derbyshire, north Nottinghamshire and north Lincolnshire, your aerial most likely points to the Yorkshire transmitters. Satellite and streaming apps choose your region from your postcode.
What is the Yorkshire regional news called?
ITV News Calendar, shown on ITV1 in the early evening and after the late national news.
Which ITV company served Yorkshire first?
Granada and ABC (shared the North), from 1956. Before 1968 one contract covered the whole of the north of England.