Politics

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

The TVTimes talks to Tony Benn, the new Postmaster-General, in 1965

Lord Bernstein thinks that colour is a waste of money. The Daily Telegraph in 1969 does not

The Daily Express is outraged in 1966 when the government announces there will be no colour on BBC-1 and ITV

Did Associated-Rediffusion’s managing director predict digital television in 1962?

Don’t let cameras in to the House of Commons, says Charles Curran MP in 1965

Playwrights Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall examine the state of TV in 1963

Roddy Buxton on the song and dance campaign to save ATV and Elstree studios

Colm O’Rourke reflects on the life and death of Border Television

How Lenton Lane, Central’s studios in Nottingham, went from nothing to something and back to nothing – by someone who was there.

Simon Luxton on the end of regional names on ITV1

How important to ITV is Channel 3?

BBC catalogue off the air

TV must change with the times

The end for ITV’s smallest region?

Looking back on the outgoing PM’s impact

ITV1’s decline and the future of TV as we know it.

Regional federalism was the foundation of ITV. Should we mourn its passing? Maybe not.

Politics, elections and the media

Who will keep the BBC running?

Patrick Delaney recalls the precedent of the Hutton Report

Andrew Bowden sees a post-analogue future

Glenn Aylett on industrial relations in broadcasting

Russ J Graham writes an open letter to the Welsh Assembly

Russ J Graham on those who have been kicked out of ITV

What is a ‘public service broadcaster’?

Danny J Palmer on the parallels between Australia and the UK

The loss of a public funded BBC would be a tragedy, says Kif Bowden-Smith

The main fault with modern television has to be Londoncentricity, says Russ J Graham

Broadcasters are under the closest scrutiny they have been under in years

James Barrington is shocked at the end of LWT

But Ian Beaumont thinks the broadcasters are missing the pound

Russ J Graham doesn’t watch here anymore

Carl Ellis wants to unpick the Carlton-Granada tie-up

David Hastings isn’t sure about Channel Five

A woman’s view on a women’s world

Capitalism and ruralism are now the norm

One ITV multiplies the business risks, says Ian Beaumont

ITV will soon be effectively unregulated says Andrew Bowden

David Brockman watches the fall, rise and fall of LWT

Andrew Bowden on the resurgent Channel Five

Ian Beaumont says 24 hour television is a waste of time

Malcolm Smith on different ways to police the licence fee

Stephen Hopkins on the mess ITV has made for itself

James Barrington rues a single English ITV