Title:
ITV cultures : independent television over fifty years
Publication Information:
Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2005
ISBN:
9780335217304
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Summary
Summary
Offers a range of perspectives on the complex and multifaceted history of a British commercial broadcaster, this book explores key tensions and conflicts which have influenced the ITV service. It shows that ITV has had to tread an uneasy line between public service and commercial imperatives, and between a pluralistic regional structure.
Table of Contents
| Introduction |
| Part 1 Histories |
| From Start-up to Consolidation: Institutions, Regions and Regulation in the History of ITV |
| A Prodigious Act of Memory: What Would an ITV Canon Look Like? |
| And the Rest is History: Lew Grade, the Creation Myth and Television Historiography |
| Part 2 Institutions |
| The Transatlantic Adventures of British Television in the 1950s: Funding, Production, Programmes, Formats and the 'Official' History of ITV |
| Mammon's Television? |
| ITV in Wales, 1959-63 From Newsreels to a Theatre of News: The Growth and Development of Independent Television News |
| LWT in the 1980s: Factual Programmes, Public Service Obligations, Financial Incentives |
| Part 3 Texts and Intertexts |
| Channeling Celebrity: ITV and the Construction of Television Fame |
| Rooms Within Rooms: Upstairs Downstairs and the Studio Costume Drama of the 1970s |
| Who Wants to be a Fan of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? |
| Television Criticism, "Popular Aesthetics" and the Question of Fan/Academic Tastes Real People with Real Problems'? |
| Public Service Broadcasting, Commercialism and Trisha |
| Conclusion Historical Timeline: The ITV Companies and the Broadcasting Acts |
