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If ITV plc takes over ITN.

(January 2017)

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NE
newsman1
rdd posted:
There was never any company just called "Independent Television" (Limited/Plc) - the words were always used in connection with something (News/Publications/Authority).


Agreed.

But it has always been known where that the initials "ITV" originated from "Independent Television".
BL
bluecortina
I think it's generally accepted that Norman Collins, who was heavily involved in setting up ITV, first coined the phrase 'Independent Television' as he felt 'commercial television' sounded too vulgar. Quite what ITV is or was independent of has always been a mystery to me.
:-(
A former member
I thought it was because it was independent of the goverment.
MA
Markymark
623058 posted:
I thought it was because it was independent of the goverment.


I thought it meant the companies were independent of each other ( Ha !)
JA
JAS84
623058 posted:
I thought it was because it was independent of the goverment.

Yeah. Independent as in not BBC, not licence fee funded.
DE
derek500
623058 posted:
I thought it was because it was independent of the goverment.


Exactly. Similar to an Independent school.

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