[…]ose years to try and get into the Camera Department, getting the job, being told I'd got the job, was to start (I forget the actual date), the entire ITV Network in 1979 went on strike so my journey to the camera section was delayed for a good two or three months because I had to, obviously, do my n[…]
[…]ke things up, and essentially wanted to undermine and break the power of the unions and get away from the collective bargaining, which applied to all ITV companies, including TV, I'm under what I think was called the White Book, if I remember rightly, in those days, and this then led to a dispute wa[…]
[…]ame back to nothing.MIKE DICK: Right. So, what happened next?PETE MURRAY: I got a job as assistant continuity announcer for the new ITV station, well, that had just come on … ATV at that time. And Bob Danvers Walker was the official and, of course, he was a famous new reader […]
[…] really dislike the B.B.C. John Humphreyshad just done whatever it was he’d just done and she thought there was awful over manning,which there was in ITV.SRYes I’d forgotten, before you left the BBC you had a period… Your career seemed to change;you had a period making what could be called anti-esta[…]
[…]nsborough daysJK: Yes, it was Queen Mary and she always had bouquets wound with tapeI: Now we’re into an area, oh I tell you what we ought to mention ITV had started commercial television. Also you had worked for BBC of course since after the warJK: Yes I did pantomime with themI: And various variet[…]
[…] a soap really because Coronation Street was trundling away being frightfully sort of successful and The BBC, if you remember for a long time, I mean ITV wiped the floor with BBC Drama didn’t they because with few exceptions BBC didn’t seem to get it right somehow, it took a long time for people…Wit[…]
