Articles about Independent Television Authority

Commercial television launches in London tonight – but how will that affect the people of Banbury?

The not-so-simple process of getting the output of the cameras to your TV screen in 1967

The ITA reports on their biggest failure to date: the fall of Wales (West and North) Television in 1964

The Belfast Telegraph reports on the opening of Ulster Television

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

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

Colour… UHF… 625… Duplication… What the viewer needs to know in 1969

A Transdiffusion exclusive: read the Independent Television Authority’s in-depth plans for ITV-2 in 1971

The British cabinet discusses what ITV should be showing on Sunday afternoons in 1955

Rediffusion’s chairman tears the ITA to shreds in his final address to shareholders in December 1967

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

The first ITV contracts are announced in November 1954… but, as Variety reports, politicians are worried

An introduction to the ITV transmitter network in 1966

An introduction to content regulation on ITV in 1966

An introduction to our analysis of a week on Southern Television in our new subsite Zenith

An introduction to television for Wales in 1966 / Cyflwyniad i deledu yng Nghymru yn 1966

An introduction to television advertising rules in 1966

An introduction to Independent Television programming in 1966

An introduction to Independent Television in 1966

How Thames presented itself in every ITA/IBA yearbook from 1969 until 1988

The Daily Mirror reports on the decisions taken by the ITA in the ITV franchise round of 1967

A simplified guide to how the pictures get from the studio to the transmitter to your home from 1966

ABC producer Penry Jones in 1964 on why religious programmes on ITV are popular

In 1970, the Daily Telegraph asks if Channel Television can survive

Granada Television starts the day on the evening of its new 7-day contract

Lord Hill of Luton on ending the Toddlers’ Truce and handing £750,000 to ITV

The 1964 contract renewal won, Howard Thomas explains what ABC will be doing for the next three years

Our new microsite takes a snapshot of ITV as it stood in the middle of 1959

Instructions for transmitter staff in the event of screens going blank

The Independent Television Authority hits back at critics of ITV in 1958

A report wonders if children’s television is good for 1959’s children

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 Robert Fraser Lectures [4/5]: the first Director-General of the Independent Television Authority wonders how TV advertising will work in 1955

The Robert Fraser Lectures [3/5]: the first Director-General of the Independent Television Authority explains ITV to Daily Mail readers in 1955

The Robert Fraser Lectures [2/5]: the first Director-General of the Independent Television Authority discusses the policies behind ITV in 1955

The Robert Fraser Lectures [1/5]: the first Director-General of the Independent Television Authority describes the foundations of ITV in 1955

A look at what children were watching on ITV in 1963

Colour comes to ITV, courtesy of tests done by ITA chief engineer Howard Steele

The ITA answers back to critics who say ITV is too violent and commercial

Spare a thought for the men keeping the Lichfield transmitter on air at Christmas in 1964

The chairman of the ITA details the fight to get ITN’s News at Ten to air on ITV

Lord Hill of Luton’s statement about the 1964 franchise round

Charles Curran interviews Lord Hill of Luton about sex on ITV in 1966

Reaching for the service area

The physical networking arrangements of early ITV