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Published 29 November 2019
Over on our Thames Television sub-site, Gary Rodger takes us on a journey to Thames in 1984 as the management put out an emergency service when the staff go on strike
Published 9 January 2019
June 1970: a prolonged strike at Granada has just finished, but, the Financial Times asks, will they ever recover? And even if they do, surely Coronation Street is now doomed?
Published 24 December 2018
CHRISTMAS IS CANCELLED – almost. Gary Rodger takes us through the industrial dispute that almost closed the BBC at Christmas in 1978
Published 25 October 2018
Satirical magazine Private Eye’s view of the ITV strike in 1979
Published 15 August 2018
A look at what wasn’t on ITV on Thursday 15 August 1968
Published 8 August 2018
A look at what was on ITV in the whole country on Thursday 8 August 1968
Published 25 October 2015
The TVTimes celebrates the return of ITV after the long 1979 strike
Published 1 October 2015
Remembering the strike-torn, strife-worn, cold, wet and miserable… 1980s
Published 7 September 2015
What to do when the network goes down and you have to improvise
Published 4 November 2010
As I type it’s about two hours to go before the start of a 48 hour walkout by BBC members of the NUJ union as part of a protest about pension changes at the broadcaster. The walkout is expected to affect most of the Corporation’s news and current affairs output with high profile casualties likely to include the Today Programme and Newsnight, as well as BBC One’s news bulletins and the BBC News Channel.
Published 1 June 2004
Glenn Aylett on industrial relations in broadcasting