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1979: The BBC is RUBBISH! | Points of View | Voice of the People | BBC Archive
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4:54Now Playing"Why not close down television altogether?"
Industrial action by ITV technicians meant that, for an eleven week period in 1979, ITV ceased broadcasting programmes. Hence, British TV viewers had a tough decision to make. They could either turn their television sets off completely (rather drastic, that), stay tuned to ITV, watching a caption that stated programmes were off air due to the strike (which an estimated 1 million people did), or... tune in to the BBC.
Some ITV viewers did turn over to the BBC. Going by Barry Took's filled-to-bursting Points of View postbag, they were not amused...
Clip taken from Points of View, originally broadcast on BBC One, Friday 31 August, 1979.
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