29 JULY 1955, page 11

A Thousand Pounds A Puff

BY A. H. BARTON I WAS alone in San Francisco when I read that advertising at popular times on British TV would cost £1,000 a minute. Outside the window a passing trolley-bus......

Commercial Television And The State

By BRIAN INGLIS REEDOM is choice,' a Director-General of the BBC, Sir Frederick Ogilvie, once wrote. 'Monopoly of broad- casting is inevitably the negation of freedom, no matter......