[…]ing me my career.Unknown Speaker 5:53 When I finished the three yearsUnknown Speaker 5:58 that BBC had lost a lot of staff to ITV, of course, because there was nowhere else to recruit them from. So I joined the BBC.Unknown Speaker 6:09 It turned out not to really […]
[…]g the Boat enormously when I was the first producer to say look, this is crazy right and why we just keep talking about the BBC. I mean, people watch ITV you know, why can't really talk about ITV. They said all right. So it was very funny because the head of presentation guy called Rex Morford was s[…]
[…] it was an infant. He was still expanding. And Harry Coventry 49:33 OBS had gone through. They'd gone through the start of ITV. ITV had started maybe a couple of years earlier, and had taken a lot of the staff out of out of outside broadcasts from in BBC, into ITV, a lot o[…]
[…] 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[…]
