Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned ; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ), the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public body established in 1990, coming into operation in 1993.

Although Ms. May was the first elected Member of Parliament, the first seat was gained in the Canadian House of Commons on August 30, 2008 when sitting Independent MP Blair Wilson joined the party.

Although Haughey did not have an overall majority when it came to a vote the Independent Socialist TD Tony Gregory voted against Fitzgerald but abstained on Haughey, seeing Haughey as the " lesser of two evils ".

Although the bulk of test transmissions and research were conducted for the Independent Television Authority ( ITA ) at the ABC studios at Teddington, TWW leased two prototype EMI colour cameras and associated equipment in 1966 and began running trials, with shows being transmitted on internal networks for viewing by employees.

Although seven-shape books may not be as popular as in the past, there are still a great number of churches in the South, in particular Primitive Baptist, Independent Fundamental Baptist, and Churches of Christ, as well as Conservative Mennonites throughout North America, that regularly use seven-shape songbooks in Sunday worship.

Although there was negative reaction from some churches, with a member of a congregation in London declaring " the question is not so much now who is Independent Anabaptist etc as who is for Christ and who is for Cromwell ", most of the sects welcomed the decision.

Although many of the Scottish independent schools are members of the ISC they are also represented by the Scottish Council of Independent Schools, recognised by the Scottish Parliament as the body representing private schools in Scotland.

Although the university primarily plays in NCAA Division II, three sports play as Division I members at the National Collegiate level in certain sports: the women's ice hockey team plays in Division I and is a member of College Hockey America ( CHA ); Men's volleyball competes as a Division I team as member of the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association ( MIVA ); and the women's gymnastics team will be competition in the 2012-13 academic year as Division I program with the Midwest Independent Conference ( MIC ).

Although the Broadcasting Authority had favoured the Independent Television bid, the incoming Labour government favoured the NZBC's application and awarded it the licence without any formal hearings beforehand.

Although the Independent Liberals merged into the Alignment in the 1980s, they had no Knesset representation at the time.

Although members of the group attempted to persuade former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm, Perot's chief rival for the nomination, to run for president as an Independent, he declined, pointing out that he had promised before running that he would not challenge the party's decision.

Although Kerry lost the election, Markey was easily reelected in 2004 over Republican Kenneth Chase and Independent Jim Hall.

Although Astley's themes had introduced a number of highly popular television shows, recognition of his death was limited to brief obituaries in the Times and the Independent

Although a small group of candidates laid claim to the name, they had been forced to run under title ' Independent Reform '.

Although the election officially resulted in a minority government, the election of eight " Independent Liberal " MPs, most of whom did not run as official Liberals because of their opposition to conscription ( see Conscription Crisis of 1944 ), gave the King government an effective working majority in parliament.

Although Wire FM was started by the Independent Radio Group, it is currently part of UTV Media after IRG was bought by The Wireless Group in 1999, with TWG then taken over in 2005 by Ulster Television plc.

Although the initial launch date was set for June 1983 the Independent Broadcasting Authority allowed the station to bring forward its start-date to 1 February 1983 in response to the launch of the BBC service Breakfast Time two weeks earlier.

Although a member of the Independent Labour Party, Cook worked closely with the Communist Party after its formation in 1920 and the National Minority Movement from 1924 to 1929.

The Independent wrote, " Although careful not to articulate it themselves, their unofficial campaign slogan is: ' When the umpire gives you out, you should walk '", alluding to the unseated Malone.

Although the Independent Television Authority ( ITA ), the regulator of the commercial channel at the time, had not objected to the production, it was ABC's Howard Thomas who had originally feared it would give offence to viewers.

Although defeat was inevitable, the Polish defence stalled the attacking forces for three days and postponed the encirclement of Independent Operational Group Narew fighting nearby.

Although he had been perceived to be close to the Liberal Party, he took his seat in the Senate as an Independent.

Although not a " breakout " commercial hit, it debuted at No. 18 on Billboard's Top Country chart and it reached No. 7 on the Top Independent Albums chart.

Although one may notice a certain Western influence in Yoshimoto's style, Kitchen is still critically recognised as an example of contemporary Japanese literature ; The Independent, The Times and The New Yorker have all reviewed the novel favourably.

Although the original videos were only a modest success outside of Texas, Barney became a major success when the character and format were revamped for the television series and were picked up by the Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS ), debuting as Barney and Friends in 1992.

Although owned by British Sky Broadcasting, Sky News is partially owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which holds a minority stake in BSkyB.

Although not an officially-assigned callsign, it took the name WSTB, an acronym for Southern Tech Broadcasting.

Although geographically not in Europe, Israel is within the European Broadcasting Area and is a member of the European Broadcasting Union, and can thus participate in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Although, in 1936, Fox sold his interest in these companies to settle bankruptcy, his name lives on in the names of various media ventures, most notably the Fox Broadcasting Company and 20th Century Fox.

Although Radyo Natin is found in the FM band, in the mornings it affiliates with Manila Broadcasting Company ’ s flagship station, DZRH, for national news programming.

Although companies such as Westinghouse Broadcasting and B-Mass Holding Company expressed interest in acquiring the station, they did not actually do so, and by 1998 WKOX had become Fairbanks ' last radio station.

Although Roberts Broadcasting held the license since 2002, it merely leased the station facility from Univision Communications ' TeleFutura subsidiary ( this arrangement existed because neither Univision nor TeleFutura had any over-the-air presence at all in St. Louis due to the area's very small Hispanic population ).

Although this project had not even reached pre-production, Van Gogh had already found a broadcaster for the series: Dutch Muslim Broadcasting Organisation NMO.

Although the song was released as single in both the UK and US on 4 March 1996, the first time the song was publicly aired had come on 22 November 1995, when the American television network, the American Broadcasting Company ( ABC ) aired the second episode of The Beatles Anthology.

Although it was subscription-based, the Broadcasting Authority granted them a one-hour time slot each day, in which the channel could broadcast unencrypted, free-to-air content, in order to promote itself and attract potential subscribers.

Although the Federal government of the United States, primarily through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting ( CPB ), and corporate underwriting provide some money for public broadcasting organizations like National Public Radio ( NPR ) and the Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS ), they are largely dependent on program fees paid by their member stations.

Although the Jarvis St. transmitter was no longer in use, the CBC continued to use the studio facilities at that site until moving to the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in 1992.

Although the HNP argued that it portrayed Verwoerd and his supporters unfairly, the complaint was rejected by the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa.

Although Poland did not become a member of the European Broadcasting Union ( EBU ) until 1993, earlier Contests had often been broadcast on Telewizja Polska ( TVP ), the Polish broadcaster-even if delayed.

Although Charles River Broadcasting had acquired other radio stations, WCRB remained as the company's flagship station.

Although he focused chiefly on ABC Television, Goldenson oversaw all areas of ABC-Paramount's entertainment / media operations for over thirty years, from 1951 to 1986, including the creation of the AmPar Record Corporation in 1955 and the ' rebadging ' of the ABC-Paramount group as the American Broadcasting Company in 1968.

Although two parties expressed interest in the station during the frequency change stage ( individual Clifton Thomas of Jackson and Dain Schult Radioactivity, Inc. of East Point, Georgia ), a local third contender, Gordon (" Jerry ") J. Lousteau, Jr., of WMGO 1370 AM in Canton was the only person that responded to the FCC's public notice, and therefore his WMGO Broadcasting Corporation was granted the license.

Although simply called " Ultraman " in the original Australian version, the series was titled Ultraman Great for its Japanese release ; the 13-episode show was originally featured on home video and LaserDisc there on 25 September 1990, and was later broadcast on Tokyo Broadcasting System from 8 July to 30 September 1995.