YLN

YLN or Yorkshire and Linconshire Network, is the company that had the Yorkshire and Lincoshire Television channel. The channel started in 1960 when they started producing programmes for the ITV franchise "Yorkshire Television". Then in 1961 they got an loan from the famous Yorkshire Production company " Yorkshire Tadpoles TV " to start an channel on the television network as Yorkshire and Linconshire Television. They had bigger problems at the start as they didn't have much programmes, filling the schedule with repeats of ITV programmes and the BBC programmes. But they also had their news report, titled "Yorkshire and Linconshire News with Roy Dixon". But the New Year was yet to come and they finally got on their feet with programming such as "Good Morning Yorkshire", "The Swinging 60's" and more. Then all hell broke loose in 1999, they got in to bigger debts. So in an attempt to get rid of the mounting debt, YLN decided to look for help. That's were BBA, as it was called then, came in to help the stricken YLN. YLN then started to produce their best programmes again. "Good Morning Yorkshire" and "The Swinging 60's" returned to YLN once again. But what YLN didn't know is that BBA took all the copyright for all the programmes that they produced. By 2005 the end was nigh for YLN. They decided then to put the studio in Leeds up for sale. The first TV company to take an interest was none other than Granada, the monopolistic ITV company, who seemed to rule television in the North. But their offering was deemed too little, a paltry £1.5m. But then 2 regional companies, "BBA" and "Tadpoles" decided to buy a stake together with BBA owning 75% of YLN and Tadpoles acquiring the remaining 25% for the price of £4.5 million, enough to tempt YLN to sell. So the coalition of BBA and Tadpoles took charge at the end of the year and renamed the channel from the former "YLN" to "BBAtv" and the company, former "YLN" to "BBAtv PLC".