ITV Wales & West
ITV Wales and West, previously known as Harlech Television (HTV), was an ITV franchise area in the United Kingdom until 31 December 2013, licensed to a broadcaster by the regulator Ofcom.
Final logos, both used from 2006 to 2013 | |
The Wales and West sub-regions when the franchise ended in 2013 | |
| Type | Region of television network |
|---|---|
| Branding | ITV1, ITV Wales |
| Country | |
First air date | 20 May 1968 |
| TV transmitters | |
| Headquarters | |
Broadcast area | |
| Owner | ITV plc |
| Dissolved |
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Former names |
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Picture format | 1080i HDTV, downscaled to 16:9 576i for SDTV |
| Affiliation(s) | ITV |
| Language | English and Welsh |
| Replaced | TWW / Independent Television Service for Wales and the West |
| Replaced by | |
There is no channel, past or present, named "ITV Wales and West". The licence relates to a "dual region", meaning that the franchise area was divided into two sub-regions, Wales and the West of England, each of which had to be served by distinct and separate ITV programme services, as more fully defined within the licence.
From January 2014, the dual-region licence was split in two, with ITV Cymru Wales for Wales and ITV West Country covering both the West of England sub-region and South West England. Both licences remain held by ITV plc through its subsidiary ITV Broadcasting Ltd, and the legal names of the former HTV companies have not yet been changed again, although the former holding company was however dissolved on 7 February 2023.
The National Library of Wales archives now store 200,000 ITV (HTV) film and video items dating from 1958.