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The ITV Emergency National Service was the management response to the near-complete Independent Television (ITV) technicians' strike immediately after the 1968 franchise changes took effect. [ 1 ]
ITV strike may refer to: 1968 ITV strike, which left ITV off the air for a few days and resulted in a transmission of an emergency national service for a few weeks afterward; Colour Strike, during which ITV technicians would not make programmes in colour; 1979 ITV strike, which left ITV off the air for eleven weeks
The history of ITV, the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies "Independent Television" commercial network, goes back to 1955. [1]Independent Television began as a network of independently-owned regional companies that were both broadcasters and programme makers, beginning with four companies operating six stations in three large regions in 1955–1956, and gradually expanding to 17 stations in ...
23–26 May – A strike over the payments agreed before the government-imposed pay freeze came into force results in many ITV companies being unable to broadcast for 72 hours, apart from at London Weekend Television, Tyne Tees Television and Westward Television where ACTT members ignored the strike. [5] However normal programming did not ...
2 August – LWT goes on the air, for fifteen seconds because that day was the start of the technicians strike which forces ITV off the air for several weeks although management managed to launch a temporary ITV Emergency National Service with no regional variations. 1969. 15 November – LWT begins broadcasting in colour.
The Colour Strike was an industrial action by technicians at ITV companies which ran from 13 November 1970 to 8 February 1971. Due to a pay dispute, technicians refused to work with colour television equipment.
The strike commenced on 17 December 1978, with normal service not resumed on Yorkshire Television until 5.45pm on Wednesday 3 January 1979. Many of ITV's Christmas programmes are eventually shown in early 1979 after the dispute has ended, little did anyone know that the seeds for the ITV Strike of 79 were sown. [11]
2 August – A technicians strike forces ITV off the air for several weeks although management manage to launch a temporary ITV Emergency National Service with no regional variations. 1969. 7 June – Anglia begins talks with Yorkshire Television about a cost-cutting exercise by sharing equipment and facilities. Neither company planned joint ...