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IBA

abbr.
International Bar Association
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IBA

(in Britain) abbreviation for
(Broadcasting) Independent Broadcasting Authority
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IBA

[ˌaɪbiːˈeɪ] n abbr (British) (=Independent Broadcasting Authority) → CNCL f(= Commission nationale de la communication audio-visuelle)
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It is a merger of telecoms regulator South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (SATRA) and Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), according to the Department of Communications of the Republic of South Africa.
May 28, 1975 A row was simmering between the area's civic societies and the Independent Broadcasting Authority over its plans to build aerial towers over 160 feet high in Primrose Hill, Armitage Bridge, Hagg Wood near Brockholes and Holt Hill Holmfirth.
Denbigh is home to the Wireless in Wales Museum, a result of the lifelong passion of the late David Jones, a retired engineer who worked for the Independent Broadcasting Authority.
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In all my years as General Secretary of War on Want, as Chairman of the International Broadcasting Trust, as Patron of the One World Broadcasting Trust, and as a member of the previous Educational Advisory Committee of the Independent Broadcasting Authority, I never came across such a huge political misjudgement as that made by Mark Thompson, the Director General of the BBC.
Lin has over 25 years experience in the commercial broadcasting industry, initially as a regulator with the Independent Broadcasting Authority.
He was chairman of the Independent Broadcasting Authority from 1981 to 1988 before joining the Liberal Democrats and speaking for them in the House of Lords on foreign affairs and broadcasting.
The freedom of expression watchdog also urges that the broadcasting service Bill and broadcasting authority Bill clarify the independence from the State of the Southern Sudanese Public Service Broadcaster and Independent Broadcasting Authority, respectively.
NEXT time ITV is blacked out and you are short of an evening's entertainment you could do a lot worse than take in an open meeting organised by the Independent Broadcasting Authority.
His ATV film on the life of Collins, entitled Hang Out Your Brightest Colours was banned by the Independent Broadcasting Authority, which called it 'an incitement to disorder'.
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