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Norman Collins

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Norman Richard Collins was a British writer, and later a radio and television executive, who lived from 3 October 1907 to 6 September 1982. He became one of the major figures behind the establishment of the Independent Television network in the United Kingdom, the first organisation to break the BBC's broadcasting monopoly when it began transmitting in 1955. He is credited on the radio programme Woman's Hour, which is listed here among broadcast landmarks.

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1907 1
Norman Collins
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Source Wikipedia: Woman's Hour
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1. Wikipedia: Norman Collins
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    3 October 1907
  • Associated With: Television, Lead sentence
    was a British writer, and later a radio and television executive, who became one of the major figures behind the establishment of the Independent Television (ITV) network in the UK
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Wikipedia: Woman's Hour
Works Created: Woman's Hour, Infobox: creator
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Norman Collins, Janet Quigley
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