This is a list of British television related events from 1967. Events January 3 January – Children's stop-motion animation series Trumpton is the second programme on BBC1 to be shot in colour. 7 January – Debut of The Forsyte Saga, a blockbuster BBC dramatisation in 26 50-minute episodes originally shown on BBC2 and the first British television programme ever to be sold to the Soviet Union. 9 January – The long-running children's educational programme Look and Read debuts on BBC1. February 3 February – David Frost confronts fraudster Emil Savundra on Rediffusion London's The Frost Programme. 28 February – National and regional newspapers carry advertisements from the Independent Television Authority requesting applicants for various new ITV contracts, one of which is Programme Contractor for Yorkshire Area (Contract D) – All Week. Ten formal bids are received by the closing date. March No events. April 8 April – The United Kingdom wins the 12th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria. The winning song is Puppet on a String performed by Sandie Shaw. May No events. June 12 June – The 1967 franchise round sees a number of changes being made to the ITV regional map which will take effect from May to August 1968: Any split weekday/weekend licences are removed in all regions, except London. The London split is moved from Friday/Saturday to Friday at 7pm. The North of England region is split into the North West and Yorkshire. Granada, the existing weekday contractor for the North of England region, is given a seven-day licence for the new North West of England region. Lord Thomson of Fleet is required to divest himself of most of his holding in Scottish Television. A new company, Telefusion Yorkshire, later renamed Yorkshire Television, is given the licence to broadcast in the newly created Yorkshire region. ATV wins the new seven-day Midlands licence, replacing ABC at the weekend. ABC and Rediffusion, London are asked to form a joint company to take the London weekday franchise previously held by Rediffusion alone, the result, Thames Television, is 51% controlled by ABC. The London Television Consortium, put together by David Frost wins the London weekend contract which now includes Friday evenings from 7pm. They go on air as London Weekend Television. Most controversially, TWW loses its franchise for Wales and the West of England to Harlech Television which later becomes known as HTV on the arrival of UHF. 25