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INDEPENDENT TELEVISION: Present and Future Policy on Development
Published 14 February 2022
A gallop through how ITV got to opening day and what’s next for the new network
Who does what in ITV
Published 19 November 2021
The Independent Broadcasting Authority explains who does what in ITV
No Damage So Far, But We Must Learn to Live with Commercial Television
Published 25 October 2021
ITV is here. Will it kill the cinema?
ITV: the Programmes and the Companies
Published 27 September 2021
The ITA gives us a quick look at how ITV is organised in 1966
The Story of Independent TV
Published 22 September 2021
Behind the scenes of that new ‘Independent Television’ you’ve heard so much about
A Shared Medium
Published 13 September 2021
It’s time for a fourth channel in the UK. But no more than that, please
Slick – that is the new TV
Published 12 April 2021
It’s launch day for ITV in London, but there’s a fire in the stables in Ambridge…
How can they get out of the MESS?
Published 18 December 2020
The last-ditch effort to prevent commercial television from being born
Yes, commercial T.V. is here
Published 22 September 2020
Commercial television launches in London tonight – but how will that affect the people of Banbury?
The symbols of ITV explained
Published 19 August 2020
ITV patiently explains ITV to viewers of ITV in 1959
A Superb Souvenir of the Year’s Television
Published 20 March 2020
Pete Singleton travels back to 1958 to find out what was making waves in television
Who does what in ITV?
Published 22 April 2019
The Independent Broadcasting Authority explains who does what in ITV in this booklet from 1973
‘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
Tonight’s Independent Television… in 1968
Published 15 August 2018
A look at what wasn’t on ITV on Thursday 15 August 1968
Tonight’s Independent Television… in 1968
Published 8 August 2018
A look at what was on ITV in the whole country on Thursday 8 August 1968
Toddlers and the £750,000 Question
Published 4 June 2018
Lord Hill of Luton on ending the Toddlers’ Truce and handing £750,000 to ITV
Independent Television in 1959
Published 8 April 2018
Our new microsite takes a snapshot of ITV as it stood in the middle of 1959
Films on television
Published 8 March 2018
Showing filmed material on television is difficult, as these 1956 instructions prove
Light Entertainment 1970
Published 5 September 2017
A look back at your favourite ITV light entertainment shows from 1970
A Year Before
Published 20 July 2017
The Robert Fraser Lectures [5/5]: the first Director-General of the Independent Television Authority looks forward to ITV in a speech given in 1954
The Advertisements
Published 13 July 2017
The Robert Fraser Lectures [4/5]: the first Director-General of the Independent Television Authority wonders how TV advertising will work in 1955
Off We Go
Published 6 July 2017
The Robert Fraser Lectures [3/5]: the first Director-General of the Independent Television Authority explains ITV to Daily Mail readers in 1955
High Policy in Principle and Practice
Published 29 June 2017
The Robert Fraser Lectures [2/5]: the first Director-General of the Independent Television Authority discusses the policies behind ITV in 1955
Commercial television: They’re buying in Britain
Published 26 June 2017
What are the prospects for the new ITV? A US magazine finds out in early September 1955
The Act and the Authority
Published 22 June 2017
The Robert Fraser Lectures [1/5]: the first Director-General of the Independent Television Authority describes the foundations of ITV in 1955
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
Welcome home to TVTimes
Published 25 October 2015
The TVTimes celebrates the return of ITV after the long 1979 strike
The Television Act
Published 6 October 2014
CREATING INDEPENDENT TELEVISION: How vague legislation created a pin-sharp television system