* Boston Society of Film Critics Awards: BSFC Award ; Best Independent Film ; 1981.

It is best known for having been an early label of Adam and the Ants, releasing their debut album Dirk Wears White Sox in November 1979 ( which in January 1980 was the first ever Number One on the UK Independent Albums Chart and in February 1981 became a UK Top 20 album ) as well as singles Zerox in June 1979 and Cartrouble in March 1980, the latter being not only a Number One on the UK Independent Singles Chart but also the debut collaboration between Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni following the departure of the original Ants to form Bow Wow Wow.

In 1977, Stafford broke away from the Fort Bend Independent School District, which caused several rounds of federal litigation ; and, by 1981, it was finally declared that the Stafford Municipal School District was constitutional.

* Independent Counsel Leon Silverman relating to Raymond Donovan, 1981 – 84

* Independent Counsel Whitney North Seymour, Jr. relating to Michael Deaver, 1981 – 89

* ATV Midlands Limited ( 1981 )-This is the company that was renamed to Central Independent Television from 1 January 1982, and was the licence holder for the Channel 3 Midlands region service until November 2008, when the licence was transferred to ITV Broadcasting Limited.

Southern Television's programme archive was sold to Southern Star Group, then Renown pictures and the names " Southern Television Ltd ", " Southern Independent Television " and " Southern Television " and star device idents used between 1958 and 1981 all transferred to Art Attack & Finger Tips producer Nic Ayling in 2004, and Southern now trades as an independent production company.

The UK version was created after Central Independent Television producer Graham C. Williams spotted the show in 1981 and produced a pilot in which two teams of sixth form students competed.

MacEwan ran as an Independent, in the 1981 election and was re-elected by a strong margin.

In 1981, interest in his work was stimulated by the compilation Fire Escape in the Sky: The Godlike Genius of Scott Walker, containing tracks selected by Julian Cope, which reached number 14 on the UK Independent Chart.

Gordon stayed with the programme until her sacking in 1981, when ATV was re-constituted into a new company, Central Independent Television.

UKIB was formed in 1981 when the Association of Independent Radio Contractors ( AIRC ) was admitted as an active member of the EBU.

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It was released in December 1981 and reached number three on the UK Independent Singles chart, number twenty-nine on the New Zealand RIANZ Singles chart and number thirty-four on the U. S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.

Controversy over alleged censorship actions has led some student newspapers to become independent organizations, such as The Exponent of Purdue University in 1969, The Daily Californian of the University of California, Berkeley in 1971, The Daily Orange of Syracuse University in 1971, The Independent Florida Alligator of the University of Florida in 1973, The Cavalier Daily of the University of Virginia in 1979, The Paisano of the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1981, and most recently The Mountaineer Jeffersonian of West Virginia University in 2008.

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NORFORCE was raised for operations in the Northern Territory and the Kimberly region of northern Australia and was originally formed as a company on 1 July 1981, from the 7th Independent Rifle Company, based in Darwin under Lieutenant Colonel John George.

As chairman of the Independent Broadcasting Authority from 1981 to 1988 he handled a controversial re-allocation of ITV network licences.

He was Chair of the Advertising Standards Authority from 1977 until 1980 ; Chair of the Independent Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ) 1981 – 1988 ; a European Commissioner, with responsibility for Regional Policy 1973 – 1976 ; First Crown Estate Commissioner from 1977 until 1980 ; and a Member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life from 1994 until 1997.

Sizer left Harvard to serve as headmaster of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts from 1972 to 1981, leaving to lead a study of American high schools sponsored by the National Association of Secondary School Principals and the National Association of Independent Schools.

He was re-elected in 1981 with 54 % of the vote, but was defeated in 1985 with 44 % of the vote and finished third in 1989 as an Independent candidate with 19 % of the vote.

Nigel Hawthorne was awarded Best Actor in Light Entertainment Programme at the 1981 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards.

In 1971 he began working for the Public Broadcasting System ( PBS ), hosting a news program called Bill Moyers Journal, which ran until 1981 with a hiatus from 1976 to 1977.

The studios at Northam were sold on to TVS in 1981, and sold again by TVS to Meridian Broadcasting in 1992.

* Bergin, Thomas John, & Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1981.

United States Satellite Broadcasting was a satellite television company that ran from 1981 to 1998.

USSB was founded in 1981 by Hubbard Broadcasting founder Stanley S. Hubbard, who is widely considered to be the father of modern satellite broadcasting.

The United Kingdom and the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) held a national final titled " A Song for Europe 1981 " to choose who would represent them in the Eurovision Song Contest 1981.

After the merger with Tongyang Broadcasting Company ( TBC ) and DBS, KBS changed these channels to KBS Radio 2 ( AM / FM ) and television station KBS 2TV in 1980 and created KBS 3TV and Educational FM in 1981.

* KBS Radio 3 ( 1134KHz AM / 104. 9MHz FM KBS Voice of Love FM )-Launched in 1973 as RSB ( Radio Seoul Broadcasting ), renamed as TBC Radio in the 1970s, then current name in 1980, and ceased broadcasting in 1981.

In 1981, Hubbard Broadcasting started U. S. Satellite Broadcasting ( USSB ), and later was instrumental in the development and launching of the first digital satellite system for television in 1994.

Two years later on 23 May 1981, Davis, and Taft Broadcasting President Dudley Taft, officially opened Canada's Wonderland to the public.

In 1976 he married Ann MacMillan ( of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation since 1981 ) with whom he has a son ( Dan, who is married to the daughter of the 6th Duke of Westminster ) and two daughters, Rebecca and Kate.

On February 13, 1981, Atlanta businessman Bill Watkins and his wife Joyce founded Provident Broadcasting Company in order to create a broadcast ministry for the benefit of Christian believers and those seeking spiritual inspiration.

In 1981, OEPBS was spun off from the Oregon State System of Higher Education, moved to Portland, and became the community-licensed Oregon Public Broadcasting.

The WMT stations remained under Orion's ownership until 1981 when the company merged with Cosmos Broadcasting, a subsidiary of insurance and broadcasting conglomerate Liberty Corporation.

The Ruby-Spears studio was purchased in 1978 by Filmways Television and was sold in late 1981 to Taft Broadcasting, becoming a sister company to Hanna-Barbera Productions.

In 1981, he founded the discussion group " Journalists for Public Broadcasting "; in that same year he became chief correspondent of the ARD bureau in New York.

The theatre was purchased by local radio company Dick Broadcasting in 1981, who started a renovation effort to prepare it for the 1982 World's Fair.

On 18 May 1981, Look North West moved from small studios at Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester to New Broadcasting House on Oxford Road in the city.

In early September, 1981, Hearst Broadcasting bought the station.

From 1972 to 1981, he was co-host of Curling Classic, a television program on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC ) that was earlier hosted by Alex Trebek.