UK PSBs

Resources, viewing and reading

Viewing

Articles

  How can traditional British TV survive the US streaming giants? — BBC News

  Regulating public service broadcasters — Ofcom

  The Gay Byrne Memorial Lecture 2023 — Public Service Broadcasting: what it is, what it is for, and what is its future by Moya Doherty

Reading

  A Licence to be Different: The Story of Channel 4 by Maggie Brown

  Channel 4: A History, from Big Brother to The Great British Bake Off by Maggie Brown

  Storm Over 4: A Personal Account by Jeremy Isaacs

  The Making of Channel 4 by Peter Catterall

  Channel 5: The Early Years by Christine Fanthome

  Independent Television in Britain: Volume 1: Origin and Foundation 1946-62
by Bernard Sendall

  Independent Television in Britain: Volume 2 Expansion and Change, 1958–68 by Bernard Sendall

  Independent Television in Britain: Volume 3 Politics and Control, 1968-80 by Jeremy Potter

  Independent Television in Britain: Volume 4: Companies and Programmes, 1968–80 by Jeremy Potter

  Independent Television in Britain: Volume 5: ITV and IBA 1981-82 - The Old Relationship Changes by Paul Bonner

  Independent Television in Britain: Volume 6: New Developments in Independent Television 1981-92: Channel Four, TV-am, Cable and Satellite by Paul Bonner

  A History of Independent Television in Wales by Jamie Medhurst

  The BBC: A People's History by David Hendy

  Broadcasting Britain: 100 Years of the BBC
by Robert Seatter

  This is the BBC: Entertaining the Nation, Speaking for Britain, 1922-2022 by Simon J. Potter

  Public Service Broadcasting: 3 (Key Concerns in Media Studies) by David Hendy