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
Current Publishing (UK) Current Publishing (UK) Current Publishing is a British magazine publishing company based in Chiswick, London. Current Publishing was founded in 1998. The company now publishes three titles: "Current Archaeology", "Current World Archaeology", and "Military History Monthly", in addition to several online services dedicated to archaeology, heritage, and sites of historical significance. Current Publishing was founded by Andrew Selkirk, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and former Vice-President of the Royal Archaeological Institute, who launched the first magazine, "Current Archaeology", in 1967. For its first 40 years, the publication was bi-monthly, becoming a monthly in 2007 up until the present