Abstract
Independent Television’s strength in programmes and finance during the latter half of the 1970s was greatly assisted by the non-occurrence of contractual upheavals scheduled for 1974 and rescheduled for 1976, so that while Lord Annan and his committee were examining the state of television and mapping its future, ITV and its viewers enjoyed the blessings of a reprieve. The wounds inflicted by the surgery of 1967 had healed and the next operation on a healthy patient was postponed until 1980. In a peak period of programme-making and a trough in the nation’s fortunes ITV provided the public with some comforting distraction from the impact of a faltering economy.
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IBA Annual Report and Accounts 1975–76 p. 7.
Independent Broadcasting 9, September 1976. p. 6.
Independent Broadcasting 10, December 1976, p. 2.
IBA Annual Report and Accounts 1976–77 p. 15.
Annan Report para. 11.9.
Independent Broadcasting 4, May 1975, p. 10.
IBA Annual Report and Accounts 1976–77 p. 8.
Ibid. p. 14.
Appendix XIII.
Sir Brian Young in evidence to SCNI, 5 July 1978: see Tenth Report from the Select Committee on Nationalised Industries Minutes of Evidence para. 987.
Letter from Aubrey Buxton to Lord Aylestone dated 13 March 1975 IBA File 29.
IBA Annual Report and Accounts 1977–78 p. 8.
Annan Report para. 12.47.
Cmnd.7294 para. 151.
Sir Donald Kaberry, SCNI Minutes of Evidence, 5 July 1978: see Tenth Report from the Select Committee on Nationalised Industries para. 991.
See Chapter 4.
IBA Annual Report and Accounts 1978–79 p. 7.
IBA Paper 33(79).
Letter dated 29 November 1978 IBA File 5003.
SCC Paper 5(81).
See Volume 1 Chapter 17.
IBA Annual Report and Accounts 1977–78 Appendix X.
Cmnd. 7294 paras. 114 and 115.
British Television Advertising: The First Thirty Years ed. Brian Henry pp. 189, 192 and 193.
Reprinted as Appendix XIV in IBA Annual Report and Accounts 1979–80.
Ibid. Appendix XIII.
Broadcasting Act 1980 Section 18(1).
IBA Annual Report and Accounts 1980–81 p. 5.
Ibid. p. 10.
Independent Broadcasting Act 1973 Section 22(3).
Broadcasting Act 1980 Section 19(4)(a).
Television and Radio 1981 p. 215.
ITV Evidence to the Annan Committee p. 132: table extended by Paul Young, Senior External Finance Officer, IBA.
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Potter, J. (1989). Prosperity and Uncertainty, 1976–80. In: Independent Television in Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06335-2_16
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