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[…] me pretty fully and I was a bit frightened of ITV. So I went on doing plays for the BBC […]

[…] that in the present climate. Yeah, that especially started after ITV. That’s when it started. Nancy Tbomas DRAFT Page 18 […]

[…]lly on the bus seat.Speaker 2  59:46  Right. So obviously investing heavily at this time, presumably in response to what was happening with ITV.Speaker 1  59:55  Oh, absolutely. Yes, yes, yes. So there was real competition going on. In fact, one of the problems the BBC were havin[…]

[…] Based on what you’ve said there, that was probably a key point in getting some of those films back into the public spotlight. It was what Channel 4, ITV, and the BBC were after.[01:54:55]BP: They had terrible problems with pirates actually. I mean, piracy was quite a problem in the, sort of, ‘60s a[…]

[…]nd line recording system on 16mm film but the idea was (I've forgotten his name, which is terrible!) but it was to get chief engineers ready to start ITV, if they got the Government go-ahead to start ITV. And they did and Fred Becker became the Chief Engineer of STV, MacNamarr became the Chief Engin[…]

[…]credibly expensive because STV, they are a commercial company. They couldn't take a chance. They had to have something like a Taggart, something that ITV would want and the thing is, what really killed STV's broadcasting of all these fantastic, small programmes under Agnes Willkie and other better, […]

[…]you know. But you’re dealing with redundancies, you know, you’d have three different unions in there arguing, you know. Or dealing with pay claims in ITV, you’d have different unions arguing differently over that. And it was absurd, you know, that we didn’t have a common position and argue a co[…]