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The new
Autumn season arrives for ITV in what was probably the network's strongest year
so far. With a franchise round in the offing, all companies pulled out the
stops. High-quality expensive entertainment, loss-making minority
programming and brand new regional programmes all appear as each company fights
for survival in the face of an angry Lord Hill of Luton.
Even the
TVTimes, possibly worried at rumblings from the ITA, increases its coverage of
ITV programming and introduces new features - just in case.
The
irony of the situation - that ITV's golden age should be in part caused by
impending changes in contracts that would take the network some years to recover
from - now seems evident. But in 1966, who knew what was to come?
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