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1968
- A year of change page
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OUR
SIXTH HANDBOOK covers a period which will see far greater changes in Independent
Television than in any year covered by its predecessors.
First,
it will see a basic change in the pattern of the system. At the end of July
there will be an increase in the number of seven-day companies serving the
central areas and at the same time a new region comes into being with its own
programme company. The establishment of seven-day companies in the Midlands,
Lancashire and Yorkshire will carry still further the application of the
regional principle on which Independent Television is based.
If a
second ITV service were ever established, the logical fulfillment of that
principle might well be the creation of two seven-day companies in London. For
the present, however, it has been thought best to continue the division of the
week in London to avoid making any one company much larger than any of the
others.
But
this is not all. Apart from the newcomer in Yorkshire, two other new companies
will bring fresh talents to Independent Television.
Then
again - and in many ways this is the greatest change of all - Independent
Television is busily engaged on the basic work of duplicating the present VHF
service on the 405-line standard in UHF on the 625-line standard. This
represents a huge engineering operation involving the construction of many new
transmitting stations.
The
1969 handbook will cover the year when colour transmissions, we hope, will
begin. In 1968, therefore, Independent Television will not only be developing
its existing programme services, but will also be preparing for the major
technical developments that lie ahead.
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