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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
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 ‘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
Focus on a crisis
Published 2 May 2022
ITN is called into action when a siege at an embassy in London comes to a shocking end
Going underground
Published 4 April 2022
A trip to the ITN archives – deep under Goodge Street in London
Telstar
Published 7 January 2022
The future is here: television across the Atlantic thanks to a satellite
Behind the news
Published 26 November 2021
Behind the scenes as the news gets to Television House and from there to your home
The Story of Independent TV
Published 22 September 2021
Behind the scenes of that new ‘Independent Television’ you’ve heard so much about
To the North
Published 10 May 2021
A twisty tale of how to get two- and three-way networking established for ITV in the 1950s
When Huw was told: ‘You looked just like a frightened rabbit’
Published 11 January 2021
ITN’s house magazine The Lens looks back from 1983 at Huw Thomas’s on-air career
Factsheet 1966: Taste, Accuracy, Impartiality in ITV Programmes
Published 13 September 2018
An introduction to content regulation on ITV in 1966
Factsheet 1966: The Independent Television Authority
Published 9 August 2018
An introduction to Independent Television in 1966
Year One: Television and visual journalism
Published 28 March 2017
Our series on the first year of Granada features Randolph Churchill discussing Granada’s journalism
Battle for News at Ten
Published 19 December 2016
The chairman of the ITA details the fight to get ITN’s News at Ten to air on ITV
Politics will soon come in out of the cold
Published 6 June 2016
April 1976 and ITN finally gets the Westminster studio the correspondents have been wanting since 1955