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How not to win an ILR franchise…

Published 14 March 2024

Charles Wintour is baffled why he failed to beat LBC for the London news contract

Europe’s Biggest Film Makers

Published 4 November 2022

BBCtv uses more feet of film each year than Hollywood

The ITA so far

Published 22 September 2022

You probably can’t get the newly launched commercial television yet, but here’s how it works

All up to the advertisers

Published 29 August 2022

The government has announced it plans to start commercial radio in the UK

Here is the NEWS – I T A Style

Published 22 August 2022

After a month of ITN’s news service, the rest of country can’t wait for the new news

The challenge of Local Radio and other topics

Published 19 August 2022

Closedown BBC local radio to replace it with the new Independent Local Radio? Not on my watch, says the BBC Director-General

Providing a comprehensive BBC service for the whole nation

Published 12 August 2022

In the Public Interest 1/6: Charles Curran on the BBC’s costs

The ‘Emmy’ winner who sent Robin Day to cover sport and made the Minister stop traffic!

Published 11 July 2022

A profile of a man who worked at Ally Pally, ITN, Anglia, Tyne Tees and Oracle – Arthur Clifford

Brearley opens, but Chataway’s in the running

Published 19 July 2021

Who’s promising what in the race to be Britain’s first breakfast TV contractor?

Commercial radio on way – 60 stations to be opened

Published 28 September 2020

The government gives the go-ahead for Independent Local Radio in 1971

‘ITV was the start of the Coca-colonisation of Britain’

Published 29 October 2018

In 1980, Jack Tinker, theatre critic of the Daily Mail, turns his unsympathetic eye to the launch of ITV in 1955

► The shape of radio

Published 15 August 2016

In 1971, the government prepares to announce commercial radio. BBC-1’s ’24 Hours’ programme examines what system they might choose in this audio recording

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Liverpool, Thursday 28 March 2024