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The Story of Independent TV
Published 22 September 2021
Behind the scenes of that new ‘Independent Television’ you’ve heard so much about
A Shared Medium
Published 13 September 2021
It’s time for a fourth channel in the UK. But no more than that, please
Tuning-in to… Grampian
Published 14 May 2021
Grampian is almost here! Find out how to tune in, what to watch and who’s behind the new programmes
Slick – that is the new TV
Published 12 April 2021
It’s launch day for ITV in London, but there’s a fire in the stables in Ambridge…
How can they get out of the MESS?
Published 18 December 2020
The last-ditch effort to prevent commercial television from being born
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
Yes, commercial T.V. is here
Published 22 September 2020
Commercial television launches in London tonight – but how will that affect the people of Banbury?
Technical operations: the ITV network
Published 14 August 2020
The not-so-simple process of getting the output of the cameras to your TV screen in 1967
The fall of Teledu Cymru
Published 12 August 2020
The ITA reports on their biggest failure to date: the fall of Wales (West and North) Television in 1964
Opening day for Channel Nine
Published 31 October 2019
The Belfast Telegraph reports on the opening of Ulster Television
Why ITV is pulling out all the plugs
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
A rationalised ITV structure
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
ITA Colour is coming!
Published 20 May 2019
Colour… UHF… 625… Duplication… What the viewer needs to know in 1969
ITV-2
Published 6 May 2019
A Transdiffusion exclusive: read the Independent Television Authority’s in-depth plans for ITV-2 in 1971
Never on a Sunday
Published 17 January 2019
The British cabinet discusses what ITV should be showing on Sunday afternoons in 1955
Sentenced to death
Published 8 January 2019
Rediffusion’s chairman tears the ITA to shreds in his final address to shareholders in December 1967
They watch your viewing
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
Tory-Weighted Programmers For Britain’s Comm’l TV Spark Rumpus
Published 29 November 2018
The first ITV contracts are announced in November 1954… but, as Variety reports, politicians are worried
Factsheet 1966: ITA Engineering
Published 4 October 2018
An introduction to the ITV transmitter network in 1966
Factsheet 1966: Taste, Accuracy, Impartiality in ITV Programmes
Published 13 September 2018
An introduction to content regulation on ITV in 1966
A week in September 1964 on Southern
Published 5 September 2018
An introduction to our analysis of a week on Southern Television in our new subsite Zenith
Factsheet 1966: Independent Television in Wales / Teledu Annibynnol yng Nghymru
Published 30 August 2018
An introduction to television for Wales in 1966 / Cyflwyniad i deledu yng Nghymru yn 1966
Factsheet 1966: Television Advertising
Published 23 August 2018
An introduction to television advertising rules in 1966
Factsheet 1966: Independent Television Programmes
Published 16 August 2018
An introduction to Independent Television programming in 1966
Factsheet 1966: The Independent Television Authority
Published 9 August 2018
An introduction to Independent Television in 1966
Thames in the ITA and IBA yearbooks
Published 31 July 2018
How Thames presented itself in every ITA/IBA yearbook from 1969 until 1988
Frost joins tycoons in shock ITV shake-up
Published 23 July 2018
The Daily Mirror reports on the decisions taken by the ITA in the ITV franchise round of 1967
In an ITA transmitting station
Published 19 July 2018
A simplified guide to how the pictures get from the studio to the transmitter to your home from 1966
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