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In 1954, the Independent Television Authority ( ITA ) awarded Granada the North of England contract for Monday to Friday, with ABC, serving the same area on weekends.
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He was one of the founders, in 1954, of the Independent Television Authority, serving as its Chairman until 1957, when he moved to ITA's rival BBC.
The Independent Television Authority was created on 30 July 1954 ending the BBC's broadcasting monopoly.
The Independent Television Authority ( ITA ) is a no longer operating agency created by the Television Act 1954 to supervise the creation of " Independent Television " ( ITV ), the first commercial television network in the United Kingdom.
When Kelmsley Winnick, one of the consortia that had been awarded a franchise in the new Independent Television network in 1954 collapsed, the ITA approached ABPC to step into the breach.
Previously it was held by Granada Television which was founded by Sidney Bernstein and based at Granada Studios since its inception, and which was the only surviving company out of the original four Independent Television Authority franchisees from 1954 before it merged with Carlton Communications to form ITV plc in 2004.
This posed a problem to the Independent Television Authority as, constitutionally, the Television Act 1954 did not apply to the islands, so the ITA's ability to operate there had to be permitted by means of extending the Act to the islands by means of an Order in Council.
The ITC was formed by the Broadcasting Act 1990 to replace the television regulation functions of the Independent Broadcasting Authority ( formed by the Broadcasting Act 1954 ) and Cable Authority.
Powell was one of the founder members of the Independent Television Authority ( ITA ) from 1954, despite initial concerns about her possible conflicts of interest ( she wrote for a newspaper that was backing one of the ITV franchises, but its bid was eventually withdrawn ).
Following the 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, Craft worked to integrate the University of Texas Law School and the Dallas Independent School District.
* Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari, Governor General of Independent India ( 1948 – 1950 ), Bharat Ratna ( 1954 )
In a 22 March 1954 by-election in Verdun, Quebec, Hervé Ferland, an advertising agent, placed fifth in a field of seven candidates, which included one " Liberal " and two " Independent Liberals ".
Their lobbying was successful, and in early 1954 the government passed the Television Act, which opened the way for the creation of the new network under the auspices of the newly formed Independent Television Authority ( ITA ).
In 1954, Stojadinović met with Ante Pavelić, former Poglavnik of the Independent State of Croatia, who also lived in Buenos Aires.
Reyner Banham stood down as chair of the Independent Group, as he was busy with his PhD thesis at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and in late 1954 Dorothy Morland asked the art critic Lawrence Alloway and fine artist John McHale to reconvene the Independent Group for its second session.
It was arguably a key factor in the strong regulation of ITV ( by the Independent Television Authority ) written into the Television Act 1954.
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Th introduction of an ITV franchise posed a problem to the Independent Television Authority as, constitutionally, the Television Act 1954 did not apply to the islands, so the ITA's ability to operate there had to be permitted by means of extending the Act to the islands by means of an Order in Council.
* Independent Television Authority, the regulator for commercial television in the United Kingdom from 1954 until 1972
In 1954 the college began for the first time to receive its share from the Wisconsin Foundation of Independent Colleges ( later the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities ( WAICU )), where Sister Nona held the presidency from 1966 to 1968.
After selling the four old vessels Næss liquidated Nortuna Shipping and concentrated on Norness Shipping, and after a dull start he started using " Contracts of Affreightment " in a 1954 agreement with American Independent Oil Company, of San Francisco.
) This posed a problem to the Independent Television Authority as, constitutionally, the Television Act 1954 did not apply to the islands, so the ITA's ability to operate there had to be permitted by means of extending the Act to the islands by means of an Order in Council.
1954 and Television
* Kraft Television Theater-Delicate Story ( 1954 )
The Plainclothesman, a moderately popular crime series aired on the DuMont Television Network from 1949 to 1954, used the technique.
Scott Stewart Bakula (; born October 9, 1954 ) is an American actor, known for his role as Sam Beckett in the television series Quantum Leap, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 1991 and was nominated for four Emmy Awards.
The origins of ITV lie in the passing of the Television Act 1954, designed to break the monopoly on television held by the BBC Television Service.
In April 1954, he started late-night talk show The Ernie Kovacs Show on DuMont Television Network's New York flagship station, WABD.
Television personality Dick Clark resided here from 1954 to 1956 at the Drexelbrook Apartment complex before moving to Wallingford, Pennsylvania, while hosting Barr ’ s Diamond Theater and a radio show on WFIL, prior to being selected to host American Bandstand.
* January 5 – Television Newsreel ( UK ) is first shown on the BBC Television Service ( 1948 – 1954 ).
The Authority began its operations on 4 August 1954, a mere four days after the Television Act received Royal Assent, under the Chairmanship of Sir Kenneth Clark.
* The franchise for the Channel Islands was awarded to Channel Television, from two applications, following the extension of the 1954 Television Act to the Islands by Order in Council, as it normally would not apply there.
Cecil Bernstein, brother of Sidney Bernstein who founded Granada Television in 1954, had seen the programme in the United States and liked the format.
The Television Act 1954 was a British law which permitted the creation of the first commercial television network in the United Kingdom, ITV.
1954 and Authority
In response to attention from the government and from the media, the U. S. comic book industry set up the Comics Code Authority in 1954 and drafted the " Comics Code " in the same year.
In November 1954 the New York City Transit Authority issued an order to Goodyear and Stephens-Adamson to build a complete Carveyor system between Times Square and Grand Central.
* United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority ( 1954 – present )
Maurice Lauré, Joint Director of the France Tax Authority, the Direction générale des impôts, was first to introduce VAT on 10 April 1954, although German industrialist Dr. Wilhelm von Siemens proposed the concept in 1918.
With the creation of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority ( UKAEA ) in 1954, ownership of Windscale Works passed to the UKAEA.
In 1954 AERE was incorporated into the newly formed United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority ( UKAEA ).
For many years Catwoman thrived, but from September 1954 to November 1966 she took an extended hiatus due to the newly developing Comics Code Authority in 1954.
In 1954 the state of Michigan created the International Bridge Authority.
In 1954 AWRE was transferred to the newly created United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority ( UKAEA ).
On its formation in 1954, the Authority was responsible for the UK's entire nuclear program, both civil and defence, as well as the policing of nuclear sites.
The Authority was established on 19 July 1954 when the Atomic Energy Authority Act 1954 received Royal Assent and gave Authority the power “ to produce, use and dispose of atomic energy and carry out research into any matters therewith ”.
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