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Europe’s Biggest Film Makers
Published 4 November 2022
BBCtv uses more feet of film each year than Hollywood
The ITA so far
Published 22 September 2022
You probably can’t get the newly launched commercial television yet, but here’s how it works
All up to the advertisers
Published 29 August 2022
The government has announced it plans to start commercial radio in the UK
Here is the NEWS – I T A Style
Published 22 August 2022
After a month of ITN’s news service, the rest of country can’t wait for the new news
The challenge of Local Radio and other topics
Published 19 August 2022
Closedown BBC local radio to replace it with the new Independent Local Radio? Not on my watch, says the BBC Director-General
Providing a comprehensive BBC service for the whole nation
Published 12 August 2022
In the Public Interest 1/6: Charles Curran on the BBC’s costs
The ‘Emmy’ winner who sent Robin Day to cover sport and made the Minister stop traffic!
Published 11 July 2022
A profile of a man who worked at Ally Pally, ITN, Anglia, Tyne Tees and Oracle – Arthur Clifford
Brearley opens, but Chataway’s in the running
Published 19 July 2021
Who’s promising what in the race to be Britain’s first breakfast TV contractor?
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
‘ITV was the start of the Coca-colonisation of Britain’
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
► The shape of radio
Published 15 August 2016
In 1971, the government prepares to announce commercial radio. BBC-1’s ’24 Hours’ programme examines what system they might choose in this audio recording