Channel Television, always the smallest of the ITV stations and indeed the smallest television station in Europe when it started, began broadcasting on Saturday 1st September 1962 to all of the Channel Islands. Two days later it joined the remainder of the country in broadcasting Coronation Street, beginning with Episode 180. Due to financial issues and the technical constraints of relaying colour pictures from the mainland, colour transmissions didn't commence until Monday 26th July 1976 and viewers in the region were the very last to see the programme in that medium starting with Episode 1620.