Regulation

Who’s promising what in the race to be Britain’s first breakfast TV contractor?

There’s a new kid on the Granada block: Phil Redmond aims to take the North West franchise in 1991

A look at the three bidders for Grampian’s franchise in 1991, North of Scotland TV, C3 Caledonia and Grampian themselves

A show is disrupted by unwashed sweary rebels. No, not that one.

Reading’s Evening Post rushes out a front page splash to announce that Southern TV has lost its franchise in 1980

The British cabinet discusses what ITV should be showing on Sunday afternoons in 1955

The Independent Television Authority took on new powers in 1964. The TVTimes in February 1965 explains what these are and how the ITA is structured

The Daily Mirror reports on the decisions taken by the ITA in the ITV franchise round of 1967

Has the IBA managed to bring peace to the Westward board room? And even if so, will they force Westward to merge with a rival bidder? Peter Fiddick of The Guardian speculates in October 1980

What will Thames, TVS, TSW and TV-am do next? Broadcast magazine speculates in September 1992

Thames is left as the sole bidder for the new Channel 5 licence in 1992… but investors are restless

The Wall Street Journal looks on aghast at the 1991 ITV franchise auction

A report wonders if children’s television is good for 1959’s children

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

Lord Hill of Luton’s statement about the 1964 franchise round

A recently retired Lord Justice of Appeal tells the TVTimes in 1961 that violence on TV has no effect on anybody and should be banned

Michael Foot takes aim at those who want to see television made cozy

Charles Curran interviews Lord Hill of Luton about sex on ITV in 1966

The TVTimes in 1965 wonders why there are only 50 hours a week of TV programmes

CREATING INDEPENDENT TELEVISION: Setting up ITV gets serious – transmitters (or the lack of them)

Private Eye’s Footnotes column explains what happened behind the scenes in the 1967 franchise round

Why were broadcasting hours capped until the 1970s?

CREATING INDEPENDENT TELEVISION: The ITA picks the players for the new ITV in 1954

CREATING INDEPENDENT TELEVISION: How vague legislation created a pin-sharp television system

Lord Hill thinks aloud about ITV’s future in 1963, while A-R doesn’t listen

The phone quiz scandal will run and run

The premium rate phone scandal, continued

Can TV shows be interactive?

Ofcom puts a quango out of its misery

Big Brother fallout continues

TV quizzes debacle

Big Brother and the future of regulation

Murdoch vs Branson

What will be the outcome of the BSkyB – Virgin Media bun-fight?

“The People’s Channel” is off-course and heading downstream to disaster, says Glenn Aylett

Three regions, four contractors. How? Why? asks Richard G Elen

The ruination of ITV, seen by Stephen Hopkins

Kif Bowden-Smith thinks the ITC isn’t working

Leave well enough alone, cautions James Barrington

Richard Jones on Lord Hill vs TWW

Thatcherism killed TV-am, writes Russ J Graham

Dafydd Hancock on why dead stations never return

Television is an art form, says Russ J Graham

Phil Paterson watches the IBA kill a station

The Television Act 1954 didn’t create ITV, notes Russ J Graham