[…]asn't like we did a emergency board 10 course came from there twice a week.Unknown Speaker 10:35 We did.Unknown Speaker 10:37 ABC had a contract, I don't know where ABC cinemas had it.Unknown Speaker 10:43 And we did weekly pie for them.Unknown Speaker 10:49[…]
[…]ke less money and we’ll do it on the BBC. And, no, they wouldn’t.MIKE DICK: Why was that then?PETE MURRAY: They got more money from ABC. Now the point was ….MIKE DICK: Sorry, what I meant Pete was why did you want to do it on the BBC?PETE MURRAY: I will tell you w[…]
[…] Leicester Square.MF: But he was instrumental in the sale of the Shipman & King cinemas which was a very nice group of independent cinemas to the ABC circuit. I'm not sure, Brian, did he retain the lease of the three situations? At Tonbridge?INT No. I at the time was working for the Danizigers b[…]
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[…]that was a tremendous success and we made a lot of money. And ITC was at that time a separate entity. ATV, as we were then known - originally we were ABC, became known as ATV - felt that it might be a conflict of interests and we did a deal and they took it over. And then in 1962 Val was no longer m[…]
[…]ked by the cinema circuit, the films showing were the current release films at that time, and I was very proud of that. And when Odeon acquired ABC I was interested to note that all the Odeon cinemas on the holiday centres were changed to ABC’s, not Odeon’s. And to this day ABC Cinemas s[…]
[…] However because the progress was so slow I left the ABC hereford and got a job at the Roxy in […]
