Independent Broadcasting Authority
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The Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) was the regulatory body in the United Kingdom for commercial television (ITV and Channel 4 - cable and satellite television were the responsibility of the Cable Authority) and radio broadcasts.
The IBA came into being when the Sound Broadcasting Act 1972 gave the Independent Television Authority responsibility for organising the new Independent Local Radio (ILR) stations. It was disbanded in 1990, being replaced by the Independent Television Commission (ITC), the Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC) and the Radio Authority (RAu), which have since been replaced with one regulator, Ofcom. A private company, National Transcommunications Limited (NTL), was set up to run the former IBA transmitter masts.
| ITV British television | Channels |
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North and North West England: ABC, Granada | North East England: Tyne Tees | Yorkshire: Yorkshire | Northern Ireland: UTV Wales and the West of England: TWW, WWN, ITSWW, HTV | Midlands: ATV, ABC, Central | East Anglia: Anglia London: Rediffusion, ATV, Thames, LWT, Carlton | Southern England: Southern, TVS, Meridian South West England: Westward, TSW, Westcountry | Channel Islands: Channel Television |
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Breakfast: TV-am, GMTV | Teletext: ORACLE, Teletext Ltd. News: ITN, ITV News Sport: ITV Sport |
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ITA | IBA | ITC | ''Ofcom ITV1 | ITV2 | ITV3 | ITV4 | CITV | CITV Channel | ITV Play | ITV HD | Men & Motors ITV News Channel | ITV Digital ITV plc | SMG plc | UTV plc |
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