Editing ABC Weekend TV (section)

== Service areas ==
Areas are described in terms of the county boundaries at the time. After ABC's closure there were significant county boundary changes in 1974, and ITV's regional boundaries have also changed over time.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Franchise 
! Start date 
! Transmitter 
! Principal service area 
! Significant overlap into adjacent regions
! Studios
|-
| rowspan="2" | {{nowrap|{{legend|#984ea3|Midlands}}}}
| 18 February 1956<ref name="mb21_Midlands">{{cite web |last1=Brown |first1=Mike |title=ITV 405 line VHF TV TRANSMITTERS MIDLANDS |url=https://tx.mb21.co.uk/info/405/itv/midlands.shtml |website=mb21 |access-date=26 March 2022}}</ref>
| [[Lichfield transmitting station|Lichfield]]<br />Channel 8
| [[West Midlands (region)|West Midlands]] and parts of [[East Midlands]]
| Parts of [[Lincolnshire]] and [[Northamptonshire]] ''([[Anglia Television|Anglia]])''<hr />[[Cheshire]] ''(ABC North)''
| [[Alpha Studios]], Birmingham
|-
| 30 April 1965<ref name="mb21_Midlands" />
| [[Membury transmitting station|Membury]]<br />Channel 12
| [[Thames Valley]]
| Parts of [[Hampshire]] ''([[Southern Television|Southern]])''
| 
|-
| rowspan="3" | {{nowrap|{{legend|#ff8900|North}}}}
| 5 May 1956<ref name="mb21_Winter_Hill" />
| [[Winter Hill transmitting station|Winter Hill]]<br />Channel 9
| [[Lancashire]] and [[Cheshire]]
| [[North Wales]] coast ''([[Teledu Cymru]])''<hr />[[Staffordshire]] ''(ABC Midlands)''
| [[Capitol Theatre, Manchester|Didsbury Studios]], Manchester
|-
| 3 November 1956<ref name="mb21_Yorkshire" />
| [[Emley Moor transmitting station|Emley Moor]]<br />Channel 10
| [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], parts of [[Lincolnshire]] and [[North Riding of Yorkshire|North]] and [[East Riding of Yorkshire|East Riding]]s 
| Parts of [[Lincolnshire]] and [[East Riding of Yorkshire|East Riding]] ''([[Anglia Television|Anglia]])''
| 
|-
| 11 June 1965<ref name="mb21_Yorkshire" />
| Scarborough<br />Channel 6
| [[Scarborough, North Yorkshire|Scarborough]]
| 
| 
|-
| style="background-color:silver" | 
| 1959<ref name="screenonline" />
| colspan="3" style="background-color:silver" | 
| [[Teddington Studios]], London
|}

ABC's two franchise regions each had their own continuity announcers, advertisements and regional programmes (mainly news and weather, and the magazine shows ''ABC of the Midlands'' and ''ABC of the North''). Apart from those exceptions, both regions usually showed the same programmes simultaneously.