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 four trombones, drums and vibraphone in a twelve beat fanfare for the station, by Jack Parnell and arranged by Wally Stott. In addition to this, a variation was produced which only featured a black dot growing and transforming into the white shadowed eye for programmes still being shown in black and white. This ident was used from the introduction of colour in 1969 right until the ATV name ceased to be used in 1982. Company names: On-air names: Initials used: In 2015, ITV Broadcasting Ltd surrendered its rights to the ATV trademark and it was acquired by Associated Television Productions