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ITV

TV network in the United Kingdom

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Also known as Independent Television

Instance of: television network
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, television station
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Country: United Kingdom
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Founded: September 22, 1955
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Website: itvplc.com
, itvstudios.com

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ITV is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network. It is branded as ITV1 in most of the UK except for central and northern Scotland, where it is branded as STV. It was launched in 1955 as Independent Television to provide competition to BBC Television. ITV is the oldest commercial network in the UK. Since the passing of the Broadcasting Act 1990, it has been legally known as Channel 3 to distinguish it from the other analogue channels at the time: BBC One, BBC Two and Channel 4.

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Headquarters: The London Studios
Owner of: Hackney Empire
Product or material produced: television
Different from: ITV criterion used: brand, trademark, band name or organization name refers to multiple entities
Social media followers: 685,000(February 9, 2025) youtube channel id: UCoEqHpK5VNVEBRvwL0EW8Gw
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2,278,343(February 9, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 86925202
645,000(January 16, 2024) youtube channel id: UCoEqHpK5VNVEBRvwL0EW8Gw
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625,000(December 28, 2022) youtube channel id: UCoEqHpK5VNVEBRvwL0EW8Gw
2,280,145(February 21, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 86925202
2,262,655(January 6, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 86925202
2,246,332(February 28, 2020) x (twitter) numeric user id: 86925202
Legal form: private company limited by shares
Owned by: ITV plc
STV Group
Language used: English

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