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Published 18 December 2020
The last-ditch effort to prevent commercial television from being born
Published 28 September 2020
The government gives the go-ahead for Independent Local Radio in 1971
Published 22 September 2020
Commercial television launches in London tonight – but how will that affect the people of Banbury?
Published 14 August 2020
The not-so-simple process of getting the output of the cameras to your TV screen in 1967
Published 12 August 2020
The ITA reports on their biggest failure to date: the fall of Wales (West and North) Television in 1964
Published 31 October 2019
The Belfast Telegraph reports on the opening of Ulster Television
Published 24 June 2019
It’s almost S-night! With ITV about to convert from 405 to 625, the technology correspondent of the Sunday Times looks into what’s involved
Published 27 May 2019
The Daily Telegraph has a plan for ITV in 1971: tear it up and start again. It’s nonsense and we’ll tell you why
Published 20 May 2019
Colour… UHF… 625… Duplication… What the viewer needs to know in 1969
Published 6 May 2019
A Transdiffusion exclusive: read the Independent Television Authority’s in-depth plans for ITV-2 in 1971
Published 17 January 2019
The British cabinet discusses what ITV should be showing on Sunday afternoons in 1955
Published 8 January 2019
Rediffusion’s chairman tears the ITA to shreds in his final address to shareholders in December 1967
Published 7 January 2019
The Independent Television Authority took on new powers in 1964. The TVTimes in February 1965 explains what these are and how the ITA is structured
Published 29 November 2018
The first ITV contracts are announced in November 1954… but, as Variety reports, politicians are worried
Published 4 October 2018
An introduction to the ITV transmitter network in 1966
Published 13 September 2018
An introduction to content regulation on ITV in 1966
Published 5 September 2018
An introduction to our analysis of a week on Southern Television in our new subsite Zenith
Published 30 August 2018
An introduction to television for Wales in 1966 / Cyflwyniad i deledu yng Nghymru yn 1966
Published 23 August 2018
An introduction to television advertising rules in 1966
Published 16 August 2018
An introduction to Independent Television programming in 1966
Published 9 August 2018
An introduction to Independent Television in 1966
Published 31 July 2018
How Thames presented itself in every ITA/IBA yearbook from 1969 until 1988
Published 23 July 2018
The Daily Mirror reports on the decisions taken by the ITA in the ITV franchise round of 1967
Published 19 July 2018
A simplified guide to how the pictures get from the studio to the transmitter to your home from 1966
Published 13 July 2018
ABC producer Penry Jones in 1964 on why religious programmes on ITV are popular
Published 28 June 2018
In 1970, the Daily Telegraph asks if Channel Television can survive
Published 14 June 2018
Granada Television starts the day on the evening of its new 7-day contract
Published 4 June 2018
Lord Hill of Luton on ending the Toddlers’ Truce and handing £750,000 to ITV
Published 18 May 2018
The 1964 contract renewal won, Howard Thomas explains what ABC will be doing for the next three years
Published 8 April 2018
Our new microsite takes a snapshot of ITV as it stood in the middle of 1959
Published 20 February 2018
Instructions for transmitter staff in the event of screens going blank
Published 15 January 2018
The Independent Television Authority hits back at critics of ITV in 1958
Published 24 July 2017
A report wonders if children’s television is good for 1959’s children
Published 20 July 2017
The Robert Fraser Lectures [5/5]: the first Director-General of the Independent Television Authority looks forward to ITV in a speech given in 1954
Published 13 July 2017
The Robert Fraser Lectures [4/5]: the first Director-General of the Independent Television Authority wonders how TV advertising will work in 1955
Published 6 July 2017
The Robert Fraser Lectures [3/5]: the first Director-General of the Independent Television Authority explains ITV to Daily Mail readers in 1955
Published 29 June 2017
The Robert Fraser Lectures [2/5]: the first Director-General of the Independent Television Authority discusses the policies behind ITV in 1955
Published 22 June 2017
The Robert Fraser Lectures [1/5]: the first Director-General of the Independent Television Authority describes the foundations of ITV in 1955
Published 12 June 2017
Colour comes to ITV, courtesy of tests done by ITA chief engineer Howard Steele
Published 9 May 2017
The ITA answers back to critics who say ITV is too violent and commercial
Published 24 December 2016
Spare a thought for the men keeping the Lichfield transmitter on air at Christmas in 1964
Published 19 December 2016
The chairman of the ITA details the fight to get ITN’s News at Ten to air on ITV
Published 14 November 2016
Lord Hill of Luton’s statement about the 1964 franchise round
Published 21 March 2016
Charles Curran interviews Lord Hill of Luton about sex on ITV in 1966