Abstract
The Act reached the Statute Book on 30 July 1954. Five days later — on 4 August — the Independent Television Authority held its first meeting at the headquarters of the General Post Office in St. Martins-le-Grand. Over the following year it held thirty-five formal meetings mostly at the Arts Council in St. James’s Square. Its first offices were in a temporary structure in Woods Mews off Park Lane and it was not until August 1955 that it moved to 14 Princes Gate which was to be its elegant abode for the next six years. This had been the residence of the American Ambassadors, and nowadays it is marked with a plaque recalling that the late John F. Kennedy had lived there.
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Figure estimated by ITN, taking account of UPITN Daily Satellite Service, Eurovision and Intervision (letter to author from Don Horobin of ITN, 22 December 1980).
Lord Clark, The Other Half (John Murray, 1977) pp. 137–8.
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Sendall, B. (1982). The First Authority. In: Independent Television in Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05896-9_9
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