How it all began…

1955
- ITN was founded in September 1955 as an independent organisation owned by ITV companies to produce news programmes for national broadcast on ITV. On 22 September, Christopher Chataway presented the first ITN news programme from Television House in Kingsway, London.  This programme was the first piece of footage to be placed in the ITN Archive.

1998
– Already housing ITN’s complete news output since 1955, ITN Archive signs its first representation deal to sell Reuters’ news library. This was the first of many deals which enabled ITN to build one of the world’s largest and most diverse moving image archives.

2002
- ITN Archive takes over the management of the Channel 4 Archive Clip-Sales business which contains all programmes produced for Channel 4, its digital channels E4 and More4, and Film4 feature films.  The huge raft of content includes cutting-edge lifestyle, entertainment, music, reality and drama programming such as Supernanny, Da Ali G Show, Big Brother, The Tube, Queer As Folk and Touching The Void.

2003
– ITN Archive takes over the exclusive management and marketing of the historical British Pathe film archive which holds footage dating back to 1896.  The deal makes ITN Archive the world’s largest commercial archive business with 500,000 hours of content.
– Following the merger of Granada and Carlton to create ITV, ITN Archive signs a deal to represent over 40 years of Granada Television clips, stockshots and news.  As well as spectacular wildlife material from Survival, the catalogue also features popular drama, entertainment and documentary programming including Coronation Street, I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, Cracker and World In Action.

2004
- ITN Archive signs a landmark deal to represent the US Fox News and Fox Movietone archives exclusively worldwide, taking their total library of footage to 680,000 hours.

2005
– ITN invests in Espresso Education, the UK's market leader in the provision of video-rich digital teaching materials to schools.  Footage held in ITN Archive’s libraries will be used produce educational packages.

2006
– ITN Archive becomes a key launch partner with Google Video, Google’s innovative online video website, providing geographically relevant content for the site’s subsequent international roll-out throughout the year.
– ITN Archive becomes ITN Source following a major company re-brand. 
– ITN Source launches an advanced digital website allowing visitors to view, download and buy footage online.

Today...

- ITN Source now represents the world’s largest collection of moving image libraries.
- We currently hold over 800,000 hours of footage and are adding over 20 hours of new material everyday.
- With headquarters in London, ITN Source has offices across the world including New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Johannesburg and Sydney, providing our global customer base with direct access to local sales and research teams.  
- ITN Source is ITN’s fastest growing business and turnover has trebled in the last five years.