Abstract
The reign of the first Director General ended in October 1970 on the retirement of Sir Robert Fraser, architect-in-chief and master builder of Independent Television. The philosophy and framework of ITV were his achievements: its pluralism, its regional structure, its two-tier system of Authority and companies. He was a socialist intellectual who came to believe that a monopoly such as the BBC had enjoyed was ‘an enemy of the free spirit of man’ and that free-enterprise television was as valuable to the preservation of a democratic society as a free and independent press. The debt which the Authority owed him for his conduct of its affairs as head of its permanent staff for its first sixteen years, it found ‘difficult to put into words’.1
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ITA Annual Report and Accounts 1970–71 p. 9.
Peter Black, The Mirror in the Corner, p. 70.
Lord Clark, The Other Half (John Murray, 1977) p. 139.
Peter Black, The Mirror in the Corner, p. 135.
E.G. Wedell, Broadcasting and Public Policy (Michael Joseph, 1968) p. 197.
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Ibid.
Ibid. Quoted in Volume I p. 317.
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Kenneth Adam, Evening News, 13 April 1971.
See Chapter 14.
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Christopher Bland, Independent Broadcasting 4, May 1975.
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See Chapter 11.
See Chapter 2.
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See Chapter 8.
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Viscount Whitelaw in conversation with the author, 12 November 1987.
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Potter, J. (1989). The Authority. In: Independent Television in Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06335-2_6
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