ITV cultures :  independent television over fifty years / 
edited by Catherine Johnson, Rob Turnock. 
 - Maidenhead :  Open University Press,  2005. 
 - viii, 217 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Approaching the histories of ITV /  From start-up to consolidation : institutions, regions and regulations over the history of ITV /  Importance, significance, cost and value : is an ITV canon possible? /  Transatlantic ventures and Robin Hood /  Mammon's television? ITV in Wales, 1959-63 /  London Weekend Television in the 1980s : programmes, public service obligations, financial incentives /  From newsreels to a theatre of news : the growth and development of Independent Television News /  Rooms within rooms : Upstairs Downstairs and the studio costume drama of the 1970s /  Real people with real problems? Public service broadcasting, commercialism and Trisha /  Who wants to be a fan of Who wants to be a millionaire? Scholarly television criticism, 'popular aesthetics' and academic tastes /  ITV a hybrid subject ;  Historical timeline : the ITV companies and the Broadcasting Acts /  Catherine Johnson and Rob Turnock --  Catherine Johnson and Rob Turnock --  John Ellis -- ǂt And the rest is history : Lew Grade, creation narratives and television historiography /  Jonathan Bignell --  Steve Neale --  Jamie Medhurst --  Rod Allen --  Jackie Harrison --  Helen Wheatley --  Sherryl Wilson --  Matt Hills --  Catherine Johnson and Rob Turnock.  Introduction :  Part 1. Histories --  Part 2. Institutions --  Part 3. Texts and intertexts --  Conclusions : 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780335217304 (hbk.) 0335217303 (hbk.) 033521729X (pbk.) 9780335217298 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>ITV (Firm)--History.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Television broadcasting--History.--Great Britain
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN 1992.3  / I91 2005 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>384.554