At £836m, the budget comes in significantly above the 2002 figure of £775m - and when the cost of World Cup coverage is taken into account, the 2003 budget represents, according to the network ...

Once the new look is implemented all ITV regions will be drawn under the ‘ITV1’ brand, abandoning established regional identities such as Granada and HTV. The regional identities will only be ...

Regional brands - except in Scotland and Northern Ireland - mostly disappear as ITV1 adopts its new "unified" look.

The station took over from TWW in 1968, as Harlech Television, later becoming HTV and, through a series of takeovers, ITV Wales & West, effectively run as two separate regions.