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Published 20 May 2022
Lord Hill is suddenly moved from the ITA to the BBC – to the horror of the staff at Broadcasting House
Published 23 October 2020
300 possible applicants for the 1968 ITV contracts… and the Midlands is the one they all want
Published 2 April 2019
In 1969 Ted Willis told the House of Lords it was time for ITV to consolidate. Did a trip to the Westward and Scottish studios change his mind?
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 October 2018
In 1980, Jack Tinker, theatre critic of the Daily Mail, turns his unsympathetic eye to the launch of ITV in 1955
Published 13 September 2018
An introduction to content regulation on ITV in 1966
Published 28 August 2018
James Green of the London Evening News looks back at a decade (and slightly more) of Rediffusion and ITV in 1967
Published 30 July 2018
Celebrating 50 years of London’s Weekday ITV: Thames – a talent for television
Published 23 July 2018
The Daily Mirror reports on the decisions taken by the ITA in the ITV franchise round of 1967
Published 4 June 2018
Lord Hill of Luton on ending the Toddlers’ Truce and handing £750,000 to ITV
Published 19 March 2018
Sir Hugh Carleton Greene’s valedictory message to the BBC and the audience after he was pushed out as Director-General in late 1968
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
Published 1 September 2014
Lord Hill thinks aloud about ITV’s future in 1963, while A-R doesn’t listen