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As the company focused on the Astra system, which was not subject to IBA regulation, the Marcopolo satellites were withdrawn and eventually sold ( Marcopolo I in December 1993 to NSAB of Sweden and Marcopolo II in July 1992 to Telenor of Norway ).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 not directed to be an " economic regulator ", so the free market in lower power satellite bandwidth satellites ( such as SES-ASTRA ) leveraged the benefits of the existing lower cost PAL transmissions with pre-existing set-top box technology.

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.

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.

ITN heavily criticised her disloyalty and that her dishonesty had made their bid seem ' ridiculous ' to the IBA.

The Golden Cadillac is an IBA official cocktail, made with Galliano and crème de cacao.

Several studies were made during the late 70s and 80s: Study for the renovation of a panopticon prison in Arnhem in 1979, Boompjes tower slab in Rotterdam ( 1979 ), Housing for Berlin IBA ( 1980, not realised, and the reason OMA would not design anything in Berlin anymore in the 20th century, the Dutch Embassy Building being the come-back ), masterplan for a world exhibition in Paris ( 1983 ).

March 2004-Fubon Financial Holding Co., Ltd made a general offer to acquire the remaining stakes in IBA, namely the 20 % shareholding of the China Everbright Group and 25 % from public shareholders.

The IBA confirmed that it was the first time such a hoax transmission had been made.

An Anglican, he was chairman of the Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England ( from 1991 ) and was a member of the BBC / IBA religious affairs committee ( while headmaster of Tonbridge, where, despite his reforming zeal in other respects, formal daily chapel services remained part of the fabric of school life while he was there ; he did make attendance voluntary at Eton ).

With the launch of BSB the IBA became a member of the secret " MAC Club " of European organisations which owned patents on MAC variants and had a royalty sharing agreement for all TV and set top boxes sold.

The IBA is important as a representative protected area in north-central Tasmania for those species.

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.

In 1974 for " The Marranos of Portugal " the Israel Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ) sent reporter Ron Ben-Yishai to carry out interviews with families about their religious practice.

Other broadcasters soon took up the idea, including the Independent Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ), who had developed the incompatible ORACLE teletext system, at around the same time.

The Sound Broadcasting Act 1972 gave the ITA responsibility for organising commercial radio in the UK, and reconstituted the ITA as the Independent Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ) with effect from Wednesday 12 July 1972.

London-based viewers tended to complain to the Independent Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ) about some of the edgier moments the show had.

The show had a short-running dispute with the Independent Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ) in 1985 over use of subliminal images.

in 1982 after being awarded two of the channels the BBC proposed its own satellite service, but by 1983 started talking with the Independent Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ), subsequently, BBC joined a joint-venture with Granada, Virgin, and Thorn-EMI ( dubbed the " Club of 21 ") to try and start up a joint satellite service but failed in 1985 with the BBC saying the costs were prohibitive, because the government insisted that the BBC should pay for the costs of constructing and launching a dedicated satellite.

The Independent Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ) decided to review the franchises in 1980, with the changeover in franchise holders ( where applicable ) occurring on 1 January 1982.

The Act saw the replacement of the Independent Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ) by the Independent Television Commission ( ITC ).

In 2003, the song " Millim Laahava " (" Words for Love ") won at the national finals organized by the Israeli Broadcasting Authority (" IBA ") television channel, Channel One, against three other songs for the privilege to represent Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, due to his prominence and popularity on the Israeli popular music scene.

The Tories won and swiftly introduced the Sound Broadcasting Act 1972, which allowed for the introduction of Independent Local Radio and the newly-renamed Independent Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ) from the Independent Television Authority.

The IBA awarded Capital Radio the " London General Entertainment " service, while " London News " was awarded to the London Broadcasting Company, LBC.

As required by the 1990 Broadcasting Act the IBA and the Home Office in 1987, all ILR stations were to permanently split simulcasting output on both its FM and AM frequencies in order to create new local radio stations and improve choice.

The Israel Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ) Arabic Orchestra was instrumental in sustaining their musical traditions in Israel.