40 YEARS OF HISTORY - BROADCAST 1959-1999 - Broadcast's golden era

Patti Williams, editor of Broadcast from 1978 to 1984, recalls the exciting years of the early eighties, when the launch of Channel 4 opened up new sources of revenue for the magazine and saw its readership double in two years.

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