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In 1968 ATV Network and Granada Television were the two major contractors to survive, although not without loss of territorial coverage in both cases. In programmes and personalities they were distinctive and very different from each other.

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Potter, J. (1990). ATV and Granada. In: Independent Television in Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09907-8_3

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