Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,254 pages of information and 244,496 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Granada TV Networks

From Graces Guide

1954 Granada Theatres was awarded one of the UK’s first commercial TV programme contracts by the Independent Television Authority, for the North of England weekday broadcasting.[1] A subsidiary was formed, Granada T.V. Networks Ltd., to operate the contract. This became one of the "big four" commercial television contractors.

1965 Granada Television was formed as a subsidiary of Granada to take-over the ITA licence held up to then by Granada TV Networks Ltd[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, March 10, 1955
  2. The Times, March 25, 1965