Abstract
Parts of the pre-history of the fourth channel have been related at some length in earlier volumes of Independent Television in Britain. In Volume 3 (Chapter 17) in particular, ITV’s proposals for the use of the empty channel as an ITV-2 are well detailed. The intent of this chapter is to carry the channel’s history forward from a summary of the public debate about what form the channel should take, which had gone on for 20 years, to the start of the setting up of the channel.
Success has a thousand fathers, failure is an orphan.
[Attributed to Count Galeazzo Ciano (1903–44) Mussolini’s son-in-law and briefly Prime Minister of Italy]
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© 2003 Paul Bonner and Lesley Aston
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Bonner, P., Aston, L. (2003). The Fourth Channel: Conception to Birth. In: Independent Television in Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287136_1
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