World of Sport (UK TV programme) Greaves, featuring football news, action and live chat was introduced by ITV on Saturday lunchtimes from 1985 to replace the "On The Ball" segment of "World of Sport", enjoying a successful run that ended in 1992 when Sky Sports gained exclusive rights to broadcast English top-flight football. From 1985, "Wrestling" with Kent Walton would follow immediately after "Saint & Greavsie", before being dropped in December 1988, only shortly prior to the popularity of the US World Wrestling Federation promotion (now World Wrestling Entertainment) gaining momentum in the UK in that era via coverage on Sky Television plc from early 1989.
Associated Television "Daily Mirror" newspaper. The company structure was changed several times until 1966, when ATV and ITC both became subsidiaries of the "Associated Communications Corporation" (ACC), formed by turning the old structure on its head. This marked the point where Lew Grade advanced from being the greatest influence over the company to taking control. ATV's main impact was in variety and light entertainment. In the contract and region changes in 1968, ATV lost the weekend franchise in London to the London Television Consortium, later renamed London Weekend Television, but its Midlands contract was renewed and extended for the full seven days.