ITV Emergency National Service
Temporary service during the technicians' strike in August 1968 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The ITV Emergency National Service was the management response to the near-complete Independent Television (ITV) technicians' strike immediately after the 1968 franchise changes took effect.[1]
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During the national ITV technicians' strike between 3 and 18 August 1968,[2] the individual companies were off the air for several weeks and an emergency service was presented by management personnel with no regional variations. This was the first time that a uniform presentation practice was adopted across all regions.[3] This did not happen again until ITV's first few days back on air following the technicians' strike of 1979, which blacked out the channel for 75 days.