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Logo used from September 4th 1989 until October 4th 1998

ITV, legally known as Channel 3, 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, eliminating what had hitherto been the monopoly of BBC Television (established in 1936).^[1] 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.

Danger Mouse and Count Duckula were originally broadcast on ITV.

References

↑ "Commercial Television: A Guide to the constitution and working of the new service". The Times. August 19th 1955.

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[1] "Commercial Television: A Guide to the constitution and working of the new service". The Times. August 19th 1955.

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 ''[[w:c:dangermouse:Danger Mouse (original TV series)|Danger Mouse]]'' and ''[[Count Duckula (series)|Count Duckula]]'' were originally broadcast on {{PAGENAME}}.