The Authority

Jeremy Potter

Chapter 6 in Independent Television in Britain, 1989, pp 84-102 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The reign of the first Director General ended in October 1970 on the retirement of Sir Robert Fraser, architect-in-chief and master builder of Independent Television. The philosophy and framework of ITV were his achievements: its pluralism, its regional structure, its two-tier system of Authority and companies. He was a socialist intellectual who came to believe that a monopoly such as the BBC had enjoyed was ‘an enemy of the free spirit of man’ and that free-enterprise television was as valuable to the preservation of a democratic society as a free and independent press. The debt which the Authority owed him for his conduct of its affairs as head of its permanent staff for its first sixteen years, it found ‘difficult to put into words’.1

Keywords: Prime Minister; Director General; Public Service Broadcasting; Deputy Director General; Contract Award (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-06335-2_6

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