Titlebook: Independent Television in Britain; ITV and IBA 1981-92: Paul Bonner,Lesley Aston Book 1998 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publ

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hich ITV faced more challenges than at any time in its history and its regulator, the IBA, was subject to political pressures so extreme that they brought about its abolition and rebirth as the Independent Television Commission. The book gives detailed accounts, based on documents not previously ava

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,Down to Business — New Names, New Roles — and Political Shadows on the Wall: 1982–84,sed for a new Director General to replace Sir Ian Trethowan and the IBA announced that its Director General, Sir Brian Young, would be retiring at the end of 1982. Perhaps because of the range of other opportunities, the response to the advertisement for the IBA job when it appeared in January 1982 was not overwhelming.

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,Introduction: The IBA and ITV — ‘The Curious Partnership’,e the founding of the original Independent Television Authority and the development of the ITV network between 1954 and 1962. The system was to be subject to greater political scrutiny and change by legislation than at any time in its history.

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,Industrial Relations, Independent Production and the Cost of Programmes — ITV the ‘Last Bastion’?,was not one that many people — even in ITV — would have sought to challenge in 1982 or even in early 1984. But, as was so often the case, the Prime Minister’s conviction had by this time outlasted its relevance.

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,Networking: The Sum of ITV’s Parts — or Cartel?,ll and medium companies as critics of the effects of the major companies’ dominant role in networking. By the end of the period the true outsiders — the independent producers — were to put the matter of ITV’s networking arrangements on the national political agenda.

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Independent Television News,in between East and West after forty years; the last, dangerously unpredictable, writhings of the apartheid regime in South Africa, as well as the continuance of the United Kingdom’s own 300-year-old running sore in Northern Ireland.

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