Editing Independent Broadcasting Authority (section)

==Succession==
The IBA was disbanded as part of the [[Broadcasting Act 1990]], being replaced on New Year's Day 1991 by the [[Independent Television Commission]] (ITC) (which also absorbed the Cable Authority), and the [[Radio Authority]] (RAu), which have since been merged with other regulators such as the [[Broadcasting Standards Commission]] (BSC) and [[Oftel]] (Office of Telecommunications) to form one regulator, [[Ofcom]]. All of the IBA's engineering function, except for a limited number of quality control engineers, was transferred to a newly set-up private company, National Transcommunications Limited (NTL), which continued to run the former IBA transmitter masts. These assets are now within the portfolio operated by [[Arqiva]]. In 2008 the IBA's extensive archive was lodged with the [[University of Bournemouth]].<ref>{{cite web | title = ITA/IBA/Cable Authority archive | url = http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/library/using-the-library/ita-iba.html | quote = The [ITA/IBA/Cable] archive remained in the custody of OFCOM until transfer to Bournemouth University in 2008 | access-date = 2014-08-31 | archive-date = 3 September 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140903120902/http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/library/using-the-library/ita-iba.html | url-status = live }}</ref>

The IBA's membership of the [[European Broadcasting Union]] was passed to [[United Kingdom Independent Broadcasting|United Kingdom Independent Broadcasting (UKIB)]].

Such was the sense of purpose and camaraderie amongst former employees of the IBA that they still meet up near Winchester for an annual reunion in late January, typically boasting an attendance of over fifty.{{Citation needed|date=April 2017}}