Channel 4 junction (14th August 1979)

Had Channel 4 been in existence during the ITV strike of 1979, this is how the channel would have been able to function; firstly, the testcard with the whole of Superstar and then a rendition of Yellow River from the BBC2 tape If I Were A Carpenter, followed by an announcement and then a rundown of the evening's programmes and then a news summary followed by an announcement of the forthcoming weather situation and then an announcement into Fantasy Island. Enjoy!!!!

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Entertainment

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• Channel
• testcard/continuity

[Hodnux]

Slight thing, would Channel 4 have even had the manpower and ability to broadcast during the strike? Or would they have done what Channel did, and show what they had available.

[cwilliams1976]

Channel 4's unitary signal had always been carried by the ITV companies as they used to sell the advertising on Channel 4 and S4C Wales; in the case of an industrial dispute either the engineers at the IBA's Engineering Division or British Telecom would send the signal to the transmitters, but I would imagine that the independent production companies would have shown their material on Channel 4 but ITN would have been unable to show Channel 4 News; hence this news summary was shown instead.

[centurytv]

I really enjoy watching your clips and i like your annoucing work on all four terrestrial tv stations,

Every thought of doing any annoucing on the earlier Channel 5 tv station, it would be nice to have clips of Channel 5 on your site and you could do clips with the IBA ETP 1 Testcard and open to following programme, lets say family Affairs.

Keep up the good work.

[cwilliams1976]

Don't worry - I am thinking at the moment about what to do about Channel 5 but the difficulty is that when it started it didn't really have any complementary networks for it, and also the IBA weren't in existence for Channel 5 to use their ETP-1 testcard; Channel 4 and S4C weren't using it at this stage as they had gone 24-hour by this point and also Channel 5 transmitters were controlled by NTL so I don't think that a NTL:CH5 would have been used but I have designed a PM5544 for that purpose.

[Murgatroyd1960s]

This is highly misleading - you should put "mock" in the title. Do YouTube and Channel 4 approve of this sort of thing? I'm researching 1980s TV and this very nearly led me astray!

[anorak103]

ok - now i got it. Probably worth putting "mock" in the title!

[pistak09]

@Murgatroyd1960s It already has with me. I'm doing something for uni and this has lead me astray. So that's a weeks worth of work in the bin. Mr Williams please lable your vids as mock otherwise you will confuse others.

[themeekwanderer]

A fellow Aspie I think. :)

[jackwolf131]

Is this Manheim Steamroller?

[acesigma06]

God does this a prize for the most annoying voice on youtube

[nogginzinc]

@rexeljetsmocks

heh, It reminded me of the intro to Knightmare

[MattBL]

5:25

Did the TV dispute get spoofed.

[kiewiitv]

14th August 1979 was Tuesday, not Thursday.

[organisten]

@cwilliams1976 completely bonkers. Channel 4 *could* have aired? Well, if I were the director of the BBC I *could* restore the UK Theme to radio 4.... or then again I *might* not. Who knows?! I mean this is completely bonkers.

[davieboy27]

We all know Channel 4 wasn't on air in 1979, but you really need to label your videos as mock. You really must have a lot of spare time on your hands.

[rexeljetsmocks]

hmm, why do I think of CTV when I hear the music at the beginning. I wonder.