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It is a story about broken ideals and betrayed hopes. It concerns a group of well-meaning people who believed that because they had been so successful at their craft of television, they could invent a new kind of company which would eliminate many of the failings they saw in the contemporary news media. Their venture foundered because they came up against an immutable city law: companies cannot operate without finance and those who provide finance can also withdraw it. (Michael Leapman, Treachery? The Power Struggle at TV-am (Allen &; Unwin, 1984)]
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© 2003 Paul Bonner and Lesley Aston
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Bonner, P., Aston, L. (2003). Financing, Ratings and Resignation: 1980–83 (March). In: Independent Television in Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287136_6
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