The third volume of this history of independent television in Britain focuses on the central issues facing the Authority and companies during twelve and a half eventful years between the beginning of a new contract period in July 1968 and the announcement of the successful applicants for new contracts in December 1980. For ITV these were years of recession and inflation, of expansion and prosperity - above all, of enquiry and uncertainty.
List of Illustrations - Preface and Acknowledgements - Television and Society in the 1970s - Recession and the Levy - Trouble at London Weekend - A Parliamentary Investigation - The Fruits of Derestriction - The Authority - Editorial Control or Censorship - Warhol and Poulson - Violence, Sex and Bad Language - Political Propaganda - Engineering: the System Transformed - Domesticated Advertising - Aspects of Research - Annan: Preamble and Evidence - Annan: Report and Debate - Prosperity and Uncertainty, 1976-80 - The Empty Channel - Appendices - List of Abbreviations - References - Index
