Cyril Page

[…] there right till the time I left to go to ITN. Well, Dorte was still there, but Dorte left about […]

Cyril Page

[…]as it Dorte or Cox? Or...Cyril Page: [interrupts] Oh, Cox! Harold Cox. Oh yes, Harold Cox. Yes, yes. He was there right till the time I left to go to ITN. Well, Dorte was still there, but Dorte left about a couple of weeks before...er I did, because he went to start ITN up...Alan Lawson: [interrupts[…]

John Cotter

[…]n.That went on for quite a time and then I was approached by a man called Philip Doughty. AndPhilip Doughty, who was my boss at the BBC, told me that ITN were being formed and wouldcare to join Independent Television News. And I thought a lot about this and I talked to my wifeand thought....you know[…]

Paul Fox

[…]bsp; And he flatly refused to talk to the BBC.  Flatly refused to speak to his friend John Morgan.  What was worse, he gave an interview to ITNITN did not have the facilities on the train.  ITN threw the tape out at Crewe Station and got the interview on the air before we did.[…]

Mickey Hickey -Transcript

[…] of the garden and she came down, she said, " ITN's on the 'phone, they want to talk to you." […]

Mickey Hickey

[…] of the garden and she came down, she said, " ITN's on the 'phone, they want to talk to you." […]

Michael (Mickey) Hickey

[…]the longest I'd ever had, you know. And my mother-in-law was alive at that time. I was down at the bottom of the garden and she came down, she said, "ITN's on the 'phone, they want to talk to you." So I went in, they said, "Hello, this is Roy Colwell[?] at ITN. Can you do a day's work for us tomorro[…]

Liz Forgan

[…]y wasn’t very happy either. And I think the audience missed not having any sport. So we had to compromise on some of those things, but still and all, ITN took a bit of persuading about this, but we had a very powerful card with which to persuade them, because for the first time we were a customer wi[…]

Interview

[…]he BBC. That was the kind of trade-off so everybody that was good anywhere else in the industry very quickly ended up coming into ITV, BBC, well ITV, ITN, STV and, you know, the independent broadcasters. So, yeah, it was amazing! You suddenly thought, Wow! The people in here are...I'm kind of lucky […]
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