BBC News coverage of the ITV franchise auction, Wednesday 16th October 1991.

For research towards a college project I recorded TV news coverage of the 'Channel 3' auction results, and the controversy.

I edited down the bulletins from VHS to VHS, using a manual 'play and record' method. The editing results vary! Over thirty years later I found that tape. I had no idea I'd kept it.

This is BBC coverage only recordings of ITN, Thames News and Channel 4 News will follow.

00:00:00 Intro
00:00:30 1100 News Summary
00:02:18 One O'Clock News
00:16:05 Six O'Clock News
00:28:00 Nine O'Clock News
00:39:44 Newsnight Jeremy Paxman introduction
00:44:47 Newsnight David Plowright, Granada
00:47:07 Newsnight Phil Redmond interview
00:49:16 Newsnight David Levy report
00:56:41 Newsnight Michael Grade, Channel 4
01:00:24 Newsnight tomorrow's newspapers
01:01:07 END

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