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Independent Television News

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Independent Television in Britain

Abstract

When the new contract period began in 1968, ITN’s flagship programme, News at Ten, was well on the way to becoming the biggest single source of information throughout the United Kingdom. It had started in July 1967 as a twelve-week experiment and confounded prophets of woe — inside ITV as well as outside — by its instant success. By the summer of 1969 all five (Monday to Friday) editions were appearing regularly in the weekly charts of the nation’s twenty most popular programmes. Nightly audiences of 12 million were commonplace.

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References

  1. Sir Geoffrey Cox in conversation with the author, 10 February 1989.

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  2. See Volume 3, Chapter 11.

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  3. The Times, 7 March 1969.

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  4. Guardian, 22 July 1969.

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  5. Jay Blumler, The Challenge of Election Broadcasting (Centre for Television Research, University of Leeds, 1978).

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  6. See Volume 3, pp. 9–10.

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  7. Anthony Smith, The Shadow in the Cave (George Allen & Unwin, 1973) p. 102.

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  8. Bad News (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976).

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  9. Independent Broadcasting 10, December 1976.

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  10. Television Today and Tomorrow, The Granada Guildhall Lectures 1977 (Granada Publishing: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon Ltd, 1977) p. 83.

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  11. Eschel Rhoodie, The Real Information Scandal (Orbis, South Africa, 1983).

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  12. Letter dated 25 May 1979.

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  13. Letter David Nicholas to Charles Denton, Central Television, dated 1 October 1984.

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  1. Jeremy Potter
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© 1990 Independent Broadcasting Authority and Independent Television Association

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Potter, J. (1990). Independent Television News. In: Independent Television in Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09907-8_6

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