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Articles about 1981 ITV franchise round

Bending the ear of the IBA on a bell-filled summer’s night

Published 15 December 2023

The IBA asks the people of Stoke-on-Trent for their opinions ahead of the next franchise round

Doing numbers

Published 4 August 2023

It’s all relative when it comes to the value of an ITV contract

How the new look will change ITV

Published 22 September 2022

The franchise results are in. What will this mean for ITV in the 1980s?

Tuning in with the winners

Published 22 September 2022

Elkan Allan looks at what convinced the IBA to pick TVS, TSW and TV-am

Breakfast with Anna

Published 15 October 2021

The new ITV contracts are announced, to mixed reviews from the Daily Mirror

Another chance to see… And it’s goodbye from us

Published 30 September 2021

A touching farewell that turned excruciating

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?

TV’s search for new logo over

Published 29 March 2021

TSW’s new identity is coming together, thanks to 80 similar suggestions for a logo

UTV’s rival reveals its plans for channel

Published 23 September 2020

What do Northern Ireland Independent Television have that Ulster Television don’t? The IBA in 1980 would have to decide

Southern get switched off

Published 27 June 2019

Reading’s Evening Post rushes out a front page splash to announce that Southern TV has lost its franchise in 1980

TV franchise – the picture is unclear

Published 18 October 2018

Ructions at City Road as Tyne Tees wins its franchise in 1980 but is ordered to restructure

Shotgun wedding

Published 18 June 2018

Has the IBA managed to bring peace to the Westward board room? And even if so, will they force Westward to merge with a rival bidder? Peter Fiddick of The Guardian speculates in October 1980

How to win an IBA franchise

Published 14 February 2017

A tongue-in-cheek list of simple dos and don’ts of applying for an ITV contract from the IBA

The joker who captured a telly station

Published 29 February 2016

Daniel Farson interviews Kevin Goldstein-Jackson about the new TSW in 1981

Stirred but not shaken

Published 28 December 2014

The Observer in 1980 has an exclusive on what would happen in the next franchise round

The wool and the scouse

Published 18 August 2014

In 1980, the Daily Telegraph reports on a challenger for Granada

Bring in the new

Published 1 January 2002

David Hastings watches everything change

Hello, Goodbye

Published 1 January 2002

Ian Beaumont waves goodbye to Westward

Southern Rhapsody

Published 1 January 2002

Phil Paterson watches the IBA kill a station

Earthquake ’81

Published 1 September 2001

Russ J Graham sees the end of ATV Midlands

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