Border Television (later ITV Border) is the ITV franchise holder for the Border region, spanning the England/Scotland border and covering Dumfries & Galloway region, a small part of the south-west area of Ayrshire, the Scottish Borders, parts of north and west Northumberland and the majority of Cumbria. The station formerly covered the Isle of Man between 26 March 1965 and 16 July 2009. Border Television was taken over by Granada Television in 2001, and the company was renamed ITV Border in 2006. ITV Border merged with ITV Tyne Tees on Wednesday 25 February 2009 to form a non-franchise region known as ITV Tyne Tees & Border. The two stations already share a regional director (Graeme Thompson) and head of news (Catherine Houlihan).
