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Articles about Southern Independent Television

How not to win an ILR franchise…

Published 14 March 2024

Charles Wintour is baffled why he failed to beat LBC for the London news contract

Jon Pertwee – Warts and all

Published 9 December 2023

The 70-year-old actor talks to TVTimes about the character he has lived and loves

Switch to Southern

Published 1 November 2023

Southern opens on Hannington UHF

Southern interference

Published 21 August 2023

A mysterious voice interrupts the news

Another chance to see… regional ITV

Published 21 July 2023

What’s on ITV tonight? There was once over a dozen answers to this question

Another chance to see… the time

Published 7 July 2023

If I could turn back time, we’d rock around the clock

Technical operations

Published 27 January 2023

The technical side to getting television to your home… and to the transmitter

How the new look will change ITV

Published 22 September 2022

The franchise results are in. What will this mean for ITV in the 1980s?

Tuning in with the winners

Published 22 September 2022

Elkan Allan looks at what convinced the IBA to pick TVS, TSW and TV-am

Breakfast with Anna

Published 15 October 2021

The new ITV contracts are announced, to mixed reviews from the Daily Mirror

Pioneer

Published 11 October 2021

Richard Wyn Jones talks to ITV pioneer Roy Hayward, who worked at Aston, Teledu Cymru and Southern

Another chance to see… And it’s goodbye from us

Published 30 September 2021

A touching farewell that turned excruciating

ITV: the Programmes and the Companies

Published 27 September 2021

The ITA gives us a quick look at how ITV is organised in 1966

ITV’s Regional Strength

Published 9 October 2020

What makes ITV worth watching is regional programmes from your local station, says the IBA in 1976

Lockdown 6-pack II

Published 25 April 2020

Six more articles to read to keep your mind alert during the lockdown

Southern get switched off

Published 27 June 2019

Reading’s Evening Post rushes out a front page splash to announce that Southern TV has lost its franchise in 1980

Factsheet 1966: The Independent Television Authority

Published 9 August 2018

An introduction to Independent Television in 1966

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

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Liverpool, Wednesday 10 April 2024