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Sunday success story
Published 13 July 2018
ABC producer Penry Jones in 1964 on why religious programmes on ITV are popular
Down-Channel economics
Published 28 June 2018
In 1970, the Daily Telegraph asks if Channel Television can survive
Between the lines
Published 14 June 2018
Granada Television starts the day on the evening of its new 7-day contract
Toddlers and the £750,000 Question
Published 4 June 2018
Lord Hill of Luton on ending the Toddlers’ Truce and handing £750,000 to ITV
Three year diary
Published 18 May 2018
The 1964 contract renewal won, Howard Thomas explains what ABC will be doing for the next three years
Independent Television in 1959
Published 8 April 2018
Our new microsite takes a snapshot of ITV as it stood in the middle of 1959
Breakdowns
Published 20 February 2018
Instructions for transmitter staff in the event of screens going blank
This is Independent Television
Published 15 January 2018
The Independent Television Authority hits back at critics of ITV in 1958
TV, the child, and the critic
Published 24 July 2017
A report wonders if children’s television is good for 1959’s children
A Year Before
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
The Advertisements
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
Off We Go
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
High Policy in Principle and Practice
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
The Act and the Authority
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
How ITV set the pace in colour
Published 12 June 2017
Colour comes to ITV, courtesy of tests done by ITA chief engineer Howard Steele
ITV: the answer to complaints
Published 9 May 2017
The ITA answers back to critics who say ITV is too violent and commercial
They work right on at the end of the road
Published 24 December 2016
Spare a thought for the men keeping the Lichfield transmitter on air at Christmas in 1964
Battle for News at Ten
Published 19 December 2016
The chairman of the ITA details the fight to get ITN’s News at Ten to air on ITV
Where do we go from here?
Published 14 November 2016
Lord Hill of Luton’s statement about the 1964 franchise round
Guardian of taste
Published 21 March 2016
Charles Curran interviews Lord Hill of Luton about sex on ITV in 1966
The Television Act
Published 6 October 2014
How vague legislation created a pin-sharp television system