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Who does what in ITV

Published 19 November 2021

The Independent Broadcasting Authority explains who does what in ITV

Breakfast with Anna

Published 15 October 2021

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

The birth of a channel

Published 2 August 2021

The first brand new national TV channel in almost 20 years has arrived

TV channel 4 storm

Published 28 October 2020

It’s decided: the fourth channel will be… a mess

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

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

Blueprint for channel 4

Published 2 September 2020

What does Channel 4 hold for the viewer when it launches in 2 years?

Building for Channel 4

Published 29 July 2020

A gallery of photos from the construction of the Beacon Hill Channel 4 extension in the early 1980s

Who does what in ITV?

Published 22 April 2019

The Independent Broadcasting Authority explains who does what in ITV in this booklet from 1973

Private Eye’s take on the 1979 ITV strike

Published 25 October 2018

Satirical magazine Private Eye’s view of the ITV strike in 1979

TV franchise – the picture is unclear

Published 18 October 2018

Ructions at City Road as Tyne Tees wins its franchise in 1980 but is ordered to restructure

The Sound of ILR

Published 1 October 2018

Some technical details of how Independent Local Radio sounds so different in 1977

Thames in the ITA and IBA yearbooks

Published 31 July 2018

How Thames presented itself in every ITA/IBA yearbook from 1969 until 1988

Waking up to Television

Published 7 June 2018

Looking forward to the arrival of TV-am, later in 1983

Oracle – Broadcasting the Written Word

Published 26 March 2018

The IBA introduces its experimental ‘Oracle’ service in the early 1970s

A Solid Step Forward

Published 12 March 2018

A look at how IBA transmitters were going solid-state in 1975

Get into view with new channel

Published 24 October 2017

Channel 4 is coming, so please help your elderly neighbours tune in

So you want an ILR station?

Published 7 August 2017

How can you get the IBA to build you an ILR station in 1979?

► CBC test transmissions

Published 2 June 2017

New local radio station CBC in Cardiff prepares to come on air in 1980

The IBA’s flying-squad

Published 30 May 2017

The work of the mobile maintenance teams in 1974

Direct Broadcasting by Satellite

Published 29 May 2017

The IBA announces that BSB is on its way

► Beacon Radio launch

Published 12 April 2017

41 years ago, Beacon Radio 303 comes on air for the first time

How to win an IBA franchise

Published 14 February 2017

A tongue-in-cheek list of simple dos and don’ts of applying for an ITV contract from the IBA

Beacon car crash

Published 17 August 2015

When a phone-in programme goes disastrously wrong

Save Elstree!

Published 17 October 2010

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

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