This book is the first authoritative account of the UK’s independent television production sector, following the creation of Channel 4 in 1982. It examines th

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Focusing on the growing power of transnational media corporations in an increasingly globalized environment for distribution of television content, and on the e

After thirty years of broadcasting in Britain under a public monopoly, the Television Act of 1954 introduced a controversial new force called Independent Televi

Focusing on the growing power of transnational media corporations in an increasingly globalized environment for distribution of television content, and on the e