Editing ITV Channel Television (section)

=== Launch ===
Channel Television was awarded the licence for the islands in 1960 by the then regulator the [[Independent Television Authority]] (ITA).<ref name="ITV Channel TV History 50">{{cite web|title=Our History|url=http://www.channelonline.tv/newfeatures/CustomHTML/50/history.html|work=Channel 50: 50 Years of Channel Television|publisher=ITV Channel Television|access-date=10 July 2013}}</ref> However, the ITA pointed out that the [[Television Act 1954]] ([[2 & 3 Eliz. 2]]. c. 55) that established ITV did not include provision for the Channel Islands and as a result, if the ITA was to operate an ITV service there, it would have to be permitted by means of extending the act to the islands with an [[Order in Council]], which was granted as the [[Television Act 1954 (Channel Islands) Order 1961]] ([[SI 1961]]/2039).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.jerseylaw.je/Law/display.aspx?url=lawsinforce%2Fhtm%2FLawFiles%2F1960-1969%2FJersey_Order_in_Council_01-1962.htm |title=JERSEY ORDER IN COUNCIL 1/1962 "TELEVISION ACT, 1954 (CHANNEL ISLANDS) ORDER, 1961". |access-date=28 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141023202059/http://www.jerseylaw.je/Law/display.aspx?url=lawsinforce%2Fhtm%2FLawFiles%2F1960-1969%2FJersey_Order_in_Council_01-1962.htm |archive-date=23 October 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In addition, the new station faced difficulties connecting to the rest of the ITV network. The solution was the construction of a microwave relay station on the northern island of [[Alderney]] that would connect with another ITV station, initially [[Westward Television]]. At first, the station received difficulties in getting permission for the new mast, but these were overcome in September 1961.<ref name="ITV Channel TV History 50"/>

Channel Television finally went on the air on 1 September 1962,<ref name="ITV Channel TV History 50"/> the 16th ITV station to launch. It served the smallest population of any ITV station with only around 150,000 people in 54,000 households.<ref>{{cite web|title=ITV in deal to buy Channel Islands' independent station|url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/itv-deal-buy-channel-islands-independent-station-1918653|publisher=Yorkshire Post|access-date=18 February 2022}}</ref>