TVTimes feedback on “Non-Stop” in the 1960s
ITN reporter David Lutyens
ITN newscaster and hero of many a well-fought bottle Reginald Bosanquet
ITN newscaster Huw Thomas
ITN newscaster Antony Brown
ITN films the seamen’s strike in 1966.
ITN announce that a consortium called British Satellite Broadcasting have won the IBA’s beauty contest for the three available Direct Broadcasting by Satellite (DBS) channels they have made available. This would be increased to five channels before launch, although BSB were already doomed even before they went on air.
[For the reasons why, it’s well worth reading the sympathetic account of BSB’s short life in the book Dished!: Rise and Fall of British Satellite Broadcasting - available secondhand at http://www.waterstonesmarketplace.com/booksearch?isbn=9780671711238 and elsewhere]
Here Peter Sissons introduces a report on Channel 4 News, then the late Carol Barnes does the same for ITV’s News at Ten. ITN themselves soon fell out with BSB and were never involved in The NOW Channel or any other BSB output.
ITN news on ITV reports [plugs] the launch of a new breakfast programme tomorrow morning: the Channel 4 Daily.
The 9.25pm main bulletin from ITN on Sunday 22 March 1964 with Huw Thomas giving us the main stories.
Michael Nicholson presents ITN’s insert into Granada’s “On Air” on 12 June 1967, leading on the effect yesterday’s ITA contract announcements had on ITV shares.
