ITV Yorkshire, previously known as
Yorkshire Television and sometimes abbreviated to
YTV or
Yorkshire, is the
British television service provided by ITV Broadcasting Limited for the Yorkshire franchise area on the
ITV network. Until 1974, this was primarily the historic county of Yorkshire and parts of neighbouring counties served by the
Emley Moor and
Bilsdale transmitting station transmitters. Following a re-organisation in 1974 the transmission area was extended to include
Humberside,
Lincolnshire, northwestern Norfolk and parts of
Derbyshire and
Nottinghamshire, served by the
Belmont transmitter, but lost the far north of
Yorkshire served by the Bilsdale transmitter which covered
Tyne Tees Television.