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4 unusual facts about Independent Television


Charles Mulholland, 4th Baron Dunleath

Mulholland was chairman of a company which bid for the Independent Television licence for Northern Ireland in 1979.

Independent Television

Independent station, a terrestrial television station not affiliated to networks.

Simon de Waal

In 2005, he collaborated with Lynda La Plante, creator of Prime Suspect and The Commander, and co-wrote a 2x90 minutes episode for The Commander (ITV, 2005) called "Blacklight".

Tahu Hole

(The document was part of the evidence that the BBC were to submit to the Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting, concerning newspaper shareholdings in Independent Television companies.)



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Baron Harlech

HTV, now known as ITV Wales, is an independent television company established by David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech, and the company was initially known as Harlech Television until 1970.

Ben Lyon

Hi Gang was succeeded in 1950 by Life with the Lyons, which also featured their real life son Richard and daughter Barbara, and had a run on BBC and independent television from 1954 until 1960.

Crackerjack

Crackerjack Productions, an Australian independent television production company

Financial Interest and Syndication Rules

Some argue the rules brought about a golden era of independent television production by companies like MTM Enterprises (The Mary Tyler Moore Show) and Norman Lear's Tandem Productions (All in the Family).

KDOC

KDOC-TV, independent television station licensed to Anaheim, California

KSNB-TV

During the early 2000s, KSNB and KTVG would pick up a secondary affiliation with Pax (which was renamed i: Independent Television on July 1, 2005 and Ion Television on January 29, 2007); the Ion affiliation was later discontinued.

Living Marxism

In the first issue where the journal was renamed LM, editor Mick Hume published an article by German journalist Thomas Deichmann which claimed that Independent Television News (ITN) had misrepresented the Bosnian war in its coverage in 1992.

Milorad Roganović

In the same year he became one of the founders and owners of the first independent television station in Eastern Europe, NTV Studio B, which was shut down by police on March 28, 1990 after just one hour of program transmission.

Robert Ugbomeh Collins

His elder brother Chucks Robert, is a Nigerian musician and a radio presenter popularly known as "Spaceman" he presently works for Cosmo FM enugu Nigeria, formerly presents a musical program (Zebra crossing) on Africa independent Television AIT.

September Films

September Films, a UK independent television and film production company, is a division of UK independent production and distribution group DCD Media.

Simon Ross

Simon Ross is a joint managing director, with his wife Amanda, of the independent television production company Cactus TV.

Television in New Zealand

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.

WICA

WICA-TV, Channel 15, a defunct independent television station in Ashtabula, Ohio, which existed from 1953 to 1956, and again from 1965 to 1967

WKBF

WKBF-TV, a defunct Independent television station in Cleveland, Ohio

WXXW-LP

WXXW-LP Channel 6 is a 16-watt analog independent television station serving Binghamton, New York.