[…]generous funding arrangement whereby the people who were responsible for the programming had absolutely no responsibility for generating the revenue. ITV was obliged to pay us a proportion of their revenues in exchange for being allowed to sell the airtime on Channel 4. So the separation between the[…]
[…]ver met in my life. The broadcast is well I prefer the broadcasters that's here. But I had a great problem trying to get in at that time. And all the ITV companies turned me down. But the BBC read through my thing and said Would I like to I then applied to the BBC to go in as the as the the man in c[…]
[…]hat, that was nice. Like me he came from the theatre, so we had a lot in common.Rodney Giesler: There was a great infusion from the theatre really on ITV wasn't there?Dicky Leeman: There was.Rodney Giesler: More than the 'Beeb'? I mean there was much more - I mean the Grades for instance had a treme[…]
[…]er that year could well be I know BBC 2 was first starting to go into ITV when I came back from America in 1968. I made the very first commercial […]
David Hamilton was a continuity announcer for ITV. I remember him most when he played football for the ITV team. […]
[…]and recorded live, off-air, Super-VHS copies plus a VHS for viewing purposes. And it was simply for viewing, nothing more, simply for access. For the ITV and Channel 4…. We were recording on to 1 inch tape initially and we were recording therefore a viewing copy on VHS and a master copy on one inch […]
[…] Nobody in any way. grumping was 63 You know, that was it? September 30. So that was the end. That was the BBC I could live with. Yeah. But once once ITV startedSpeaker 1  1:38:16  to crack through just what people stayed at home to watch the adverts, there was such a novelty. And of cours[…]