[…] Labour Party came from NATTKE. No question about that, to be fair, that was driven by the likes of Vincent Finer, Freddie Fabian, Freddie White, the ITV branches inside ITV and, there was a bit of caution even among some of our branches. But in the end, the more militant branches in the BBC did sup[…]
[…]ons Department, and one day I’ll come up with the name that I can’t remember, who did it first of all...but it was very selective. But it did include ITV which had been formed in [19]55 I think – is that right? Because I remember having the very first television advertisement, which I used to show i[…]
[…]a contract with Jack Hilton, which covered everything except for his sound radio. Well, that was certainly the view from Jack. So we get the start of ITV in 1955 and the BBC I've got competition. So the one thing that they really want to do is to start to meet the new ITV the fledging ITV network on[…]
[…]alled AutoCatch which was built by John Nicol. He is one of the senior Broadcasting Engineers at STV. Originally, we were looking to get content from ITV so we could re-encode it and put it on the Player but there were technical difficulties there so John Nicol built a system that simply records off[…]
[…]oning and this bidding system which Thatcher had introduced in the Broadcasting Act of 1990 and it was really the piece of legislation that destroyed ITV and destroyed commercial television as a powerhouse for really making quality-quality television because you had to bid for the license and the li[…]
[…]Joe was concerned. And it was only thereafter, not because of the equity strike. But during the same period that actt started to organise properly in ITV and agreements, management, we're beginning to accept them. And we'd like to recognise agreements. So although Gerald was a member, obviously, ver[…]
[…]a very important person in the world of jingles when commercial television started up. And by this time of course, we’d lost quite a lot of people to ITV, which had begun in the mid ‘50s, including people like Bill Ward who were talented producers and they'd gone off to ATV and started off, and incl[…]
[…] also decided that the market must rule more firmly at ITV, which was described by Thatcher as, “The last bastion […]
[…]e never saw the tight, two-man crews. And this got lodged in her head, you know, I mean, famously, she had a meeting in Downing Street, which all the ITV Managing Directors attended and she opened proceedings by saying to them - "Gentlemen, you are the last living example of restrictive practices an[…]
