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
World of Sport (UK TV programme) on Saturday afternoons. The shows will be taped in Norwich on May 10, 11 and 12. "World of Sport Wrestling" started airing on 28 July, 2018 at 5pm on ITV1 and is scheduled to run until 29 September 2018. A nine date live tour of the show has been announced for January/February 2019. World of Sport (UK TV programme) World of Sport is a British television sport programme which ran on ITV between 2 January 1965 and 28 September 1985 in competition with the BBC's "Grandstand". Like "Grandstand", the programme ran for several hours every Saturday afternoon. Eamonn Andrews was