Regulation

Elkan Allan looks at what convinced the IBA to pick TVS, TSW and TV-am

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

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

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

Can TV shows be interactive?

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

Phil Paterson watches the IBA kill a station

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

Robin Carmody on Harold Wilson’s paranoia