World in Action output. For the first 35 years of its existence, ITV had a near-monopoly of television advertising revenue. Roy Thomson, who ran Scottish Television famously described ITV as a "licence to print money". In return for this income, the broadcasting regulator insisted that the ITV companies broadcast a proportion of their programmes as public service TV. Out of this was born the network's reputation for serious current affairs, eagerly grabbed by programme makers under Granada's founder Lord Sidney Bernstein. Some of the most prominent figures in 20th-century British broadcasting helped to create "World in Action", in particular Tim Hewat, "the maverick
Ran In-ting member of the major watercolour art societies in the UK, France and Italy. In 1959 he received the National Art Prize from the government of the Republic of China, and in 1969 received an honorary degree from the College of Chinese Culture (now Chinese Culture University) in Taipei. In 1991 the National Palace Museum in Taipei staged a major exhibition of Ran’s watercolours, and in 1998 the National Museum of History held a retrospective exhibition of Ran In-ting’s work, Hymn of Colors – The Art World of Ran In-ting. Ran In-ting died in 1979, and is now considered one of