Another BBC strike

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/a149784/bbc-journalists-to-go-on-strike.html

Friday 3 April and Thursday 9 April are the proposed dates - is this the third or fourth time in the last few years? It's always the BBC too - I can never recall in my life time ITN or ITV being affected - and you'd have thought considering what has happened as ITV over the last year or so they'd have good course to strike.

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Sorry- did you completely leave out the 70s and 80s? When blue was the most popular colour on ITV?!

You're obviously not very old then...

ITV was wiped out totally by strikes for months in the 70s (one to do with staffing for colour TV - though this was before many of us were born it went on for a LONG time), and does the TV-am strike in the 80s ring any bells?

The "colour strike" didn't take any programmes off the air...it just meant no programmes were broadcast in colour on ITV for a number of months. Even when the strike ended it took a few months for things to return to normal as soaps, dramas and other programmes recorded during the dispute were screened in monochrome. And, of course, DVD box sets of classics like Upstairs, Downstairs, Budgie, Public Eye, Family at War and Bless This House contain black-and-white episodes.

The BBC English regions also had a 'colour strike' around the same time (1971-72) South Today was in b/w for a few months, and AIUI so were other regional news programmes. All the more confusing for the viewers, because more than once the EMI 2001s were seen in vision, sporting their "BBC-tv Colour" logo plates !

There was the joint BBC/ITV/ITN strike in 1988, protesting about the UK Government's directive that Sinn Féin spokesmen had their voices re-dubbed by actors.

There was a blanket strike from the NUJ in 1985, caused by the BBC refusing to screen a documentary about Northern Ireland/the troubles, which meant there was no TV news, no Radio news, no teletext, apparently even TV-am wasn't broadcast at all on that day.

It wasn't too bad in 2005, we still had National News pretty much there, it affected Regional News more, we only had about 10 minutes worth all day.

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I assume the main news will be 'Jade Goody Still has only hours to live'

Read my post again and then apologise properly. It's absolutely pathetic you, Jugalug and Gavin replying to everything I post in such a childish manner when you obviously have no interest in discussing the topic at hand, especially when others here clearly want to discuss the matter. If you're not going to show me any respect at least show the other members some.

As I said, "I can never recall in my life time" - the seventies were before my lifetime, and the strike in the eighties isn't something I recall personally. So don't just assume I'm saying it's a fact that journalists at ITV and ITN have never ever gone on strike when I never said anything of the sort.

It's not nice when people assume things, is it Brekkie?

The BBC/ITV strikes in the 70s and 80s are commonly referred to on this forum. With a post count over 13000, it would be a reasonable assumption to make that you'd have at least seen it written somewhere, even in passing, that there had been blanket strikes in those two decades - even if you didn't see it first hand.

i guess it will be BBC World News / BBC News channel simulcast [[Post snip by moderator]]... hahaha!
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