ITV Border
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| Based in | Carlisle |
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| Broadcast area |
Cumbria (majority) Dumfries and Galloway Scottish Borders Isle of Man (formerly) Northumberland (part) South Ayrshire (part) |
| First airdate | 1 September 1961 |
| Owned by | ITV plc |
| Website | ITV Border |
ITV Border, previously Border Television, is the Channel 3 service provided by ITV Broadcasting Limited for the England/Scotland border region, covering most of Cumbria, Dumfries and Galloway, the Scottish Borders and parts of Northumberland. The TV service previously covered the Isle of Man from 26 March 1965 until 15 July 2009.
Border Television was taken over by Granada plc in 2001 and the service was renamed ITV Border in 2004 when Granada and Carlton, the two biggest ITV franchise owners in England and Wales, merged to form ITV plc. The licence for the region was transferred from Border TV to ITV Broadcasting Limited in November 2008. The legal name of the company was changed on 29 December 2006 from Border Television Ltd to ITV Border Ltd. This company is, along with most other regional companies owned by ITV plc, listed on www.companieshouse.gov.uk as a "dormant company".
From 25 February 2009, the regional news programme Lookaround was now produced by the combined operation ITV Tyne Tees & Border in Gateshead with news and advertising staff based at offices in Carlisle and Edinburgh. However, on 16 September 2013, a full regional news service for the Border region was restored as part of an extensive relaunch of the station's local programming. A sub-regional service for the south of Scotland was reintroduced in January 2014.
In May 1960, the Independent Television Authority (ITA) invited applicants to provide the ITV service for the Borders region – an area that covered the English counties of Westmorland and Cumberland, the south of Scotland and later, the Isle of Man.
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