Broadcasting of radio and television was a duopoly of the BBC and Independent Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ): these two organisations controlled all broadcast services, and directly owned and operated the broadcast transmitter sites.

The Broadcasting Act 1990 changed the nature of ITV ; the then regulator the IBA was replaced with a light-touch regulator the ITC, companies now able to purchase other ITV regional companies and franchises were now being awarded based upon a highest-bidder auction, with few safeguards in place.

In 1984, the name of the federation was once again changed, this time to International Baseball Association ( IBA ).

The IBA was subsequently replaced by the Independent Television Commission ( ITC ) ( and the Radio Authority ) under the provisions of the Broadcasting Act 1990, which themselves were replaced by the Office of Communications ( Ofcom ) at the end of 2003.

During its ATV days the chairman of the station, Lew Grade, was said to have taken a personal dislike to the show but was persuaded to let it continue, even arguing in its defence to criticism from the IBA.

Almost every edition of Tiswas was transmitted live and only recorded in case of any future IBA investigation ( as was standard practice at the time ).

According to Yair Lapid, son of Tommy Lapid who was then the IBA director general, Lapid called his counterpart at NOS and convinced him to take the " undesired honour ", when he realised that the extra cost could paralyse the regular work of the IBA.

APD was the R & D department of the IBA.

This, however, provided no hindrance for IBA or to the organising team of the event, and the International Convention Center in Jerusalem was selected as the venue for the 44th Contest.

Historically, all of independent television ( from 22 September 1955 ) and radio ( from 8 October 1973 ) was governed by the IBA ( Independent Broadcasting Authority ) – joined by the Cable Authority in 1984.

One of the conditions imposed on applicants by the IBA was that they use a new, untried transmission standard, D-MAC.

As the company focused on the Astra system, which was not subject to IBA regulation, the Marcopolo satellites were withdrawn and eventually sold ( Marcopolo I in December 1993 to NSAB of Sweden and Marcopolo II in July 1992 to Telenor of Norway ).

The IBA was rendered helpless and Rupert Murdoch made a voluntary agreement to adhere to those Broadcasting Standards Commission rules relating to non-economic matters, such as the technology used.

In 1981 the Independent Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ) decided that ATV's lack of regional programming and production ( it had a major studio centre at Elstree in Hertfordshire, a legacy of its London contract and well outside of its Midlands franchise ) was hampering the region, so it insisted that the new applicant for the franchise be more clearly based in the region and have separate facilities for the East and West Midlands.

To demonstrate this change of share structure, the IBA insisted that ATV change its company name, to show that it was a substantially new company.

This was blocked by both Richard Dunn, Chief Executive of Thames, and by the IBA.

The handover was tinged with acrimony on behalf of Southern, which appeared to take its anger at the decision out on TVS rather than the IBA, which had made the actual choice.

The third ' prong ' of Trident was intended to be Anglia Television, but the IBA ruled out their involvement.

The Independent Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ), the successor to the ITA, recognised the criticism, reported The Economist, " that Trident was London-dominated, overly diversified, and out of touch with the grass roots.

This was the official line given by the IBA, but it was also considered that Southern's non-local ownership ( the majority shareholders were companies based in London and Dundee ) and their very conservative nature led to it being dropped in favour the more interesting proposals made by TVS in their franchise application.

Earl Barish of Winnipeg directed the IBA as League President and the league eventually grew to ten franchises.

Until the establishment of the Second Broadcasting Authority and the widespread availability of cable television services in Israel ( which also produce their own cable programming directed at the local market ) in the early 1990s, the IBA maintained a virtual monopoly on television and radio broadcasting and production in Israel.

The IBA provides news programming in 14 foreign languages directed at audiences abroad or in Israel through its IBA News programming available on the internet and through rebroadcasters.

Softwood cuttings taken in late spring or early summer from new growth can be rooted under mist if treated with 8, 000 to 10, 000 ppm indole-3-butyric acid ( IBA ).

Rooting of up to 83 % can be obtained when 5-7 week-old microshoots are then transferred to WPM amended with 4. 9 μM IBA.

In the 1981 franchise review, the IBA ordered that if ATV Midlands were to keep the franchise, the Elstree centre would be sold and that a new studio centre be built in the East of the region.

The IBA accepted ATV's assertion that ATV Midlands Ltd planned to take a more local identity, and awarded the contract to ATV Midlands Ltd on the basis that further changes were to be implemented, including that the parent company Associated Communications Corporation would divest 49 % of its shareholding in ATV Midlands Ltd in an attempt to introduce local shareholders and that ATV Midlands Ltd's registered office should be within the region.

In order to serve the new region better the IBA expected the successful applicant to operate separate facilities for both the south and the south-east, known as a dual-region, with new additional facilities to be built in the South East.

Condemning the films as pornography, her National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association campaigned vociferously against the broadcasts and lobbied parliament and the IBA, calling for the broadcasts to be ended.

In 1984, Taylor largely sided with Mary Whitehouse who brought a case against the Independent Broadcasting Authority over the television film " Scum "; he said the Director-General of the IBA had made " a grave error of judgment " in allowing the film to be shown.

As of the International Banking Act of 1978 ( IBA ), an Edge Act Corporation may also be held by a Foreign Bank.

Michael green was left " bewildered " saying " We Are surprised at the IBA Decision, I'm absolutely certain it would not have been a major change to Thames, We have always suggested that we would make absolutely sure that the company would continue to be what it is at this moment in time ".

This direct approach extended to programmes also ; the IBA could ( and did ) place limits on how many soap episodes could be shown per week, if they believed programme quality would be compromised.

Several recipes claiming to be the original Margarita include Cointreau as does the IBA approved recipe for the Cosmopolitan.

On 4 October 1990 the IBA announce that King's Lynn is one of the areas to be advertised in the first phase of local radio licences by the new Radio Authority who take over responsibility for licensing and regulating commercial radio in the UK on 1 January 1991.

Creators Cooke and Mortimer had to get special permission from the IBA ( the then governing body of Independent TV in Britain ) to be able to portray an unmarried couple living together ; special concern arose at scenes in which Robin and Vicky were seen in an obvious state of undress in bed.

The promoters could not find an opponent, and McCarter decided to go on with the fight as scheduled, but the IBA decided it would be another non-title fight.

To be listed as an IBA, a site must satisfy at least one of the following rating criteria:

In general, the regular presence of a Critical or Endangered species, irrespective of population size, at a site may be sufficient for a site to qualify as an IBA.

The assessment by expert individuals is however not entirely reliable and a study in South America found that the coverage needed for at-risk bird conservation as chosen by computational algorithms rarely overlapped with IBAs and suggested that such methods should be used to complement expert driven IBA site choices.

The championship would get increasing attention in the following years and was promoted to an international World Tour event sanctioned by the International Bodyboarding Association ( IBA ) in 2002, eventually turning out to be the premiere event of the tour when the Teahuppo Challenge was eliminated due to lack of financial sponsoring.

In 1978 the Israeli government appointed a special committee to explore the establishment of a second channel that would not be under the IBA supervision and would be financed by advertising, however the idea of commercial television was rejected by some parties in the ruling coalition.