Television Act 1959
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- Television Act (1959)
- BBC 'Official' Channel
- BBC funded from TV license.
- BBC2 launched (1964)
- ITV allowed to run as commercial channel from advertising. (1955)
- ITV getting 76% of Market share. (1957)
- First colour TV (July, 1967)
- End of 1969 more than 200,000 colour TV sets produced.
- 75% homes had TV - (1961)
- 91% - (1971)- homes had TVs > Bathtubs
- Ownership peaked in 1964. Approx. 13 million sets
- TV no longer a luxury, but a social necessity.
- Hugh Greene - Director of BBC 1960.
- Money diverted from radio to TV.
- Guidelines of nudity and swearing revised.
- Popular programs authorised.
- Pilkington Report.
- Pilkington Enquiry (1960-62)
- Branded ITV trial and BBC as 'good tv'. (Benchmark of good TV).
- ITV now had to include: 1 weekend, 1 weekday play, 2 weekly current affair programmes and the 10 o'clock news.
- Pilkington Enquiry (1960-62)
- Significant Events.
- 1958 - 1st time more money was spent on TV than Radio.
- 1969 - TV was 23% of leisure time.
- Was (and still is) one of the causes consequences of social change.
- Expansion
- Transatlantic TV (1962)
- Sets become Smaller (1966)
- TV became available everywhere.
- Ended isolation .of small villages
- Led to a Uniformity of culture.
- Impact of Expansion
- News was more important as it could be seen as well as heard.
- Fictional characters became a commie conversation topic. (Never to happen before)
- Radios survived transistor and car radio.
- BBC 'Official' Channel
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