The ITV Strike Trilogy | Ten Years of Turbulence

The ITV Strike Trilogy | Ten Years of Turbulence | An AMTV Documentary Series

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A compilation edition of the ITV Strike documentaries, now presented as one exciting trilogy!
PART 1 - The ITV Strike of 1968
Just over 10 years after ITV's inception, all is not well behind the scenes. With wages falling behind the national standard plus a whole wealth of other issues, technicians aligned with their unions call the first national strike in ITV's history. However, the other side, was able to fight back...
PART 2 - The ITV Colour Strike
The United Kingdom is embracing colour! After making the switch to full-time colour transmissions late in 1969, ITV had invested heavily in new equipment and studios to meet the changes. However, when workers go on strike, those that could receive colour, would find their ITV favourites plunged back into monochrome...
PART 3 - The ITV Strike of 1979
The strike to end all strikes.... after a vicious decade of hyper inflation, things come to a head in the summer of 1979, when due to a bout of industrial action on a national scale, ITV is plunged into darkness for 11 weeks...
PREVIOUS DOCUMENTARIES:
The Lasting Legacy of Test Card F - • The Test Card Girl: Th...
How Australia Embraced Colour TV - • Farewell Black & White...
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@MSterling27 Жыл бұрын

As an ITV employee, big fan of videos like this. Very educational. Surprised you don't have a lot more views as there's definitely a market for it

@johnking5174 2 жыл бұрын

ITA actually stood for the Independent Television Authority and were in charge from their creation by the Television Act of 1954 until 1972, when a new authority was established to cover both commercial TV and the upcoming new commercial radio stations. This new authority was named the Independent Broadcasting Authority and would operate from 1972 until 1990, when the 1990 Broadcasting Act created the more light touch regulator Independent Television Commission from 1st January 1991.

@ProfessorDamn 2 жыл бұрын

In 1979 the ITA was abolished and was replaced by the IBA (Independent Broadcasting Authority). As long as I remember. Although everyone make mistakes, but it's better if people can learn from it. Other than that the video is as great as usual.

@johnking5174 2 жыл бұрын

@@ProfessorDamn No, the ITA was abolished in 1972 and not 1979.

@pak8606 Жыл бұрын

12 July 1972 was when the IBA succeeded the ITA I believe.

@robfriedrich2822 10 ай бұрын

In Germany they also tried something like ITV, they underestimated the law, prepared everything and at least they created another nation wide network under public law, that isn't run by existing radio stations. It was planned to have some breakfast television, but at least it took till the 1980's, where they started to allow commercial television in West Germany. In my childhood the breakfast was accompanied by radio with news, music, exercises, advertisements, always the exact time, especially in the middle of a song (later I learned, that they had to pay less royalty fees when teasing recorder owners).

@DeltaC79 8 ай бұрын

So wait, who’s responsible for the broadcasting act that blackholed itv into a singularity?

@thebetaman 8 ай бұрын

"This is AMTV, in color." *"Oh."*

@lulugamer8082 Ай бұрын

i got a better version of it, check my comment.

@jimmyfandago3211 Жыл бұрын

We got our first colour TV in 1979, just like the one at 22:03 (a BUSH if I remember right). Only could watch BBC as the strike was on!! Great Doc.

@shibithecatthing Жыл бұрын

This is out together really well! Thanks for the amazing documentaries!

@AdamMartyn Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

@lulugamer8082 Жыл бұрын

37:40 Adam: and now for our reguarly sched-- *BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP*

@RebeccaPhythian Жыл бұрын

Well that did not feel like 51 minutes - so interesting! Love the music underscoring the whole docu series too!

@robertbull5584 Күн бұрын

Love that Channel TV was a law unto itself 😂

@rocky.rollcake 2 жыл бұрын

this felt like a whole movie 💀

@michaelfortheloss292 2 жыл бұрын

Wow! Amazing 😊

@thomasstevens2746 2 жыл бұрын

Great video x

@ethancarberry-holt3011 2 жыл бұрын

Nice work Adam!

@AdamMartyn 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ethan!

@Horizions 11 ай бұрын

As A American, this always surprises me, as I have a thing for Regional televison, i.e i am autistic.

@MrSean64 2 ай бұрын

Will we someday have a documentary about ITV franchise auctions? Both 1980 and 1991?

@lulugamer8082 Жыл бұрын

22:31 *AMTV id goes B&W* AMTV owner: oh

@lulugamer8082 Жыл бұрын

thanks adam!

@brucedanton3669 Жыл бұрын

Thank you of course for this Adam-and well done so then too. You are of course right about Channel Television-I have read of this before and also in the Test Card Circle magazine in the past too. I knew that while all the other ITV companies were in colour and showing Test Card F when they were off air, Channel was the last to do so until 1976, and then they showed Test Card D in black and white instead. Also, as I think you show, whereas all the other ITV areas were starting at say 9.30am each day, they would not start until 1.20pm or so with their local news then. I guess because it was not profitable then to do so. Also, I think it lasted even when TV-am started in 1983, meaning that when they ended all the other ITV areas would then start, but Channel would show the IBA ETP1 test card with tone-not music?-until at least 12.00 when the children's series were on, or even 1.20pm as before. I think that lasted until the mid 1980s, when perhaps they or the IBA then decided that they would be on as all the other ITV areas so too. Well done too!

@brucedanton3669 11 ай бұрын

Thank you there for the highlight of course so then too!

@rogerdarthwell5393 2 жыл бұрын

They are also in chronological order, thank you Adam!

@AdamMartyn 2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure Roger!

@rogerdarthwell5393 2 жыл бұрын

@@AdamMartyn No worries!

@enderblazer479 9 ай бұрын

What i imagined there'd be an AMTV movie since there is a documentary about it

@hakimi69420 2 жыл бұрын

What a decade..

@LEGOGames1000YT 2 жыл бұрын

What I don't know is why the ACTT was so involved with ITV's workers. The ITV strikes always had some participation of the ACTT…

@Insert-thing-here-Fan 2 жыл бұрын

Idk

@johnking5174 2 жыл бұрын

The ACTT Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians were the union to represent technicians working at every ITV company. That is why they were involved.

@denelson83 2 ай бұрын

LWT could have always re-colourized episodes 2 through 6 of Upstairs Downstairs series 1.

@Tvsnumber1fan 8 ай бұрын

Actually the ITV program that was probably most affected by the Colour strike was LWT’s “Upstairs Downstairs” which had five episodes not sold to the United States station PBS in the early to mid 1970s. This was due to the fact that by the early 1970s American television would refuse new programming in black and white to be aired in Prime Time. That and the fact by 1972 50% of American television households had at lest one colour television set, which was far higher then the number of households with colour television in Britain. However, the first episode was recorded in colour, with two different endings which could be shown depending on whether a particular station arid the black and white episodes or not. The black and white version of that particular episode was wiped. The black and white episodes would not be shown in the United States until 1988 or 1989. Oh I think the most watched Doctor Who episode, if you exclude the episodes that aired during the 1979 ITV strike, was the 2007 Christmas special “Voyage of the Damned” which received an estimated 13.31 million viewers. That was in big part due to the fact that that particular episode had Kylie Minogue as the Companion.

@pak8606 Жыл бұрын

Did you have ITV closedown compilation videos on this channel? I remember each of the larger companies having their own video and the smaller regions being in one video.

@robfriedrich2822 10 ай бұрын

The problem is, in the first half of the 1970's, video recorders didn't fit to consumer needs. Few people with much money had two video recorders to compensate the running time of 60 minutes maximum, beside this, it was used by teachers, to record educational programs for school use and for schools to integrate educational programs and being independently from the schedule. The release of VHS forced the existing video formats to offer running times of 2 till 3 hours.

@arthurvasey 9 ай бұрын

I bet someone will come along and colourise those programmes that are in black and white!

@phoneticau 9 ай бұрын

Today who watches off air transmission TV, now its in the cloud through the Internet

@surajchoudhury372 2 жыл бұрын

Good evening, can you do an ident review of Sky Box Office please?

@davidsutcliffe1536 Жыл бұрын

You could do a programme about how the blackouts effected tv

@AdamMartyn Жыл бұрын

Thats a shout!

@christopherwilliams2093 Жыл бұрын

@@AdamMartyn What about one looking at the history of daytime television? The 50th anniversary WAS last autumn...

@NicolasPetrosLanning 3 ай бұрын

9:13 pun unintended

@josephgetz2941 Жыл бұрын

3:20 Why can I see a cursor in the top left?

@NancerOne 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Adam

@FirstLast-cb2jr Жыл бұрын

Why does Channel have something that looks like a mountain lion as part of its logo?

@newsuperhdgraphic Жыл бұрын

7:56 where’s everyone’s teeth

@Matt78778 2 жыл бұрын

This is AMTV in colour.........ohh

@lulugamer8082 Ай бұрын

check my comment.

@yvonnerogers6429 5 ай бұрын

👍🏻

@NicolasPetrosLanning 3 ай бұрын

46:40 And I like Coronation Street and Crossroads and the BBC just does rubbish. Yeah I miss watching ITV, I never missed them, and I do miss them now!

@ysthafellgynghori8423 Жыл бұрын

We are currently living in a vicious decade of hyper inflation thanks to Boris 'Peppa Pig Partygate' Johnson.

@NicolasPetrosLanning 3 ай бұрын

Hyperinflation needs to end!!! IT WAS DONE BEFORE IN THE SEVENTIES! I cannot live like this in this Cost of Living Crisis…more like the Cost of Living Emergency!

@Dannypuck 2 жыл бұрын

Lew Grade? Wasn't he the guy that killed Doctor Who?

@AdamMartyn Жыл бұрын

His nephew Michael Grade tried to cancel it in 1985 when he was Controller of BBC1!

@Dannypuck Жыл бұрын

@@AdamMartyn Thanks for clearing that up, Adam. Big fan of your work. I'm American, but fascinated by all TV history.

@agy234 9 ай бұрын

Why was British always on strike in the 70s?

@stewart_fisher 3 ай бұрын

Some would argue Labour Government, Unions having too much power, others would say greedy bosses putting profits before people. Take your pick.

@funniegaminstuff Жыл бұрын

we already mastered black n gray a while before colour. PLAY YOUR TV SHOWS IN NEW FULL COLOUR! (warning: not all shows apply) (you need a tv compatible of colour)