Trouble at London Weekend

Jeremy Potter

Chapter 3 in Independent Television in Britain, 1989, pp 34-55 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Of all the problems which vexed the reconstructed network after its public début in the summer of 1968, none was so severe or far-reaching as those which afflicted the new weekend contractor in London. The question who was to control Thames, the other new London company and largest of the contractors, caused the Authority almost as much concern and aggravation but had no wider impact. The LWT affair, by contrast, called into question most of the fundamentals of Independent Television: the methods and morals of contract awards; the role and competence of the Authority; the pattern of regionalism; inter-company relationships; and the philosophy of programming. An account of the structure and operations of these two companies will be found in Volume 4 of this history, but LWT’s birthpangs belong to the story of the Authority and the network as a whole.

Keywords: Chief Executive; Vote Share; Programme Controller; Programme Contractor; Central Company (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-06335-2_3

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