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That strike on 5th April 1984 was the last time any channel has had to go off air completely, and since then they've always managed to keep broadcasting, even in the very early days of the TV-am dispute, even if that's entirely with films and repeats.
There were a couple of strikes in 1994 which was probably the last time there was a really noticeable effect on the schedules in that most live shows got dropped completely, like Breakfast News and Newsround, and programme production was affected, so you would have noticed it. Whereas now things look a bit weird but if you weren't really paying attention you might not notice. You'd certainly not have got a three hour Breakfast (I know it's not like the usual Breakfast, but it's on air) or The One Show or anything like that before the mid-nineties, I'd have thought.
When was the last major television strike to genuinely have an effect on the schedule? I don't think there's any terrestrial channels that have gone off entirely since the 80s, but there was a noticeable one on the BBC as recently as 1994 when a few news programmes had to be replaced with random films and repeats.
That strike on 5th April 1984 was the last time any channel has had to go off air completely, and since then they've always managed to keep broadcasting, even in the very early days of the TV-am dispute, even if that's entirely with films and repeats.
There were a couple of strikes in 1994 which was probably the last time there was a really noticeable effect on the schedules in that most live shows got dropped completely, like Breakfast News and Newsround, and programme production was affected, so you would have noticed it. Whereas now things look a bit weird but if you weren't really paying attention you might not notice. You'd certainly not have got a three hour Breakfast (I know it's not like the usual Breakfast, but it's on air) or The One Show or anything like that before the mid-nineties, I'd have thought.