Abstract
From the days of the marches by civil rights activists at Newry on 5 October 1968 and Londonderry’s Apprentice Boys on 12 August 1969 the ITV company in Northern Ireland was living — in terms of politics, religion and security — in a very different world from that of any other contractor in Independent Television.
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ITA Annual Report and Accounts 1969–70, p. 3.
For UTVs earlier history see Volume 2, Chapter 3.
IBA Paper 185(74).
See Volume 3, p. 262.
Rex Cathcart, The Most Contrary Region (Blackstaff Press Ltd, 1984) p. 206.
IBA Memorandum Director General to W.J. Blease, IBA Member for Northern Ireland, dated 29 March 1978, IBA File 7064/6.
IBA Paper 326(80).
Ibid.
Statement by the Independent Broadcasting Authority: ITV Franchise Awards 1980, dated 28 December 1980.
Peter Taylor, Reporting Northern Ireland in Index on Censorship (Writers & Scholars International Ltd) vol. 7, no. 6, November/December 1978, p. 3.
IBA Paper 353(79).
IBA Annual Report and Accounts 1976–77, p. 115.
IBA Paper 56(59).
ITA Minutes 289(71).
ITA Minutes 290(71).
See Volume 3, pp. 120–1.
IBA Paper 277(74).
PPC Paper 3(73).
IBA Minutes 351(74).
IBA Paper 134(75).
IBA Paper 100(76).
Issue dated 18 February 1976.
IBA Paper 79(76).
Letter Roy Mason MP to Lady Plowden dated 31 October 1977, IBA File 5096/2/3/3.
Ibid. Letter Sir Brian Young to Bryan Cowgill dated 23 November 1977.
IBA Paper 278(77).
See Volume 3, pp. 115–16.
PPC Paper 11(78).
IBA Memorandum Deputy Director of Television to Director General dated 19 June 1978, IBA File 5096/2/3/3.
Ibid. Correspondence between Sir Brian Young and Bryan Cowgill, Appendix to IBA Paper 164(78).
Anthony Smith, The Politics of Information (The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1978) p. 135.
World in Action: The First Twenty-One Years (Granada Television, 1984) p. 7.
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Potter, J. (1990). The Troubles in Northern Ireland. In: Independent Television in Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09907-8_11
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