Networking: The Sum of ITV’s Parts — or Cartel?

Abstract

Like many internal business arrangements that are exclusive in their effects, the complex networking system that had grown up in ITV over the years was always bound to be subject to criticism from those who were excluded. At the start of the Eighties this criticism was largely internal, with the small and medium companies as critics of the effects of the major companies’ dominant role in networking. By the end of the period the true outsiders — the independent producers — were to put the matter of ITV’s networking arrangements on the national political agenda.