This corporation's monopoly on TV broadcasting in England was broken in the 1950s by ITV
The first ITV contractor to begin broadcasting was the London 
Weekday ... who had held the monopoly on broadcasting in Britain, aired a 
melodramatic ...... ABC Weekend TV (Associated British Corporation): North and 
Midlands... [DOC] [TLE] BBC ON THIS DAY | 22 | 1955: New TV channel ends BBC monopoly [PAR] Britain's first independent television station is on air, bringing advertisements to ...