Television Act 1954
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television-act-1954-220-1093012
title:
Television Act 1954
text:
The Television Act 1954 was a British law which permitted the creation of the first commercial television network in the United Kingdom, ITV. Until the early 1950s, the only television service in Britain was operated as a monopoly by the British Broadcasting Corporation, and financed by the annual television licence fee payable by each household which contained one or more television sets. The new Conservative government elected in 1951 wanted to create a commercial television channel, but this
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
United Kingdom legislation creating ITV
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_Act_1954
date created:
2003-02-08T00:59:44Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T16:39:07Z
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