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The ITV Emergency National Service was the management response to the near-complete Independent Television technicians' strike immediately after the 1968 franchise changes took effect.〔Bowden-Smith, Kif ''(Strike Service )'' Vision On, 1 January 2002, accessed 1 June 2006〕 During the national ITV technicians' strike of August 1968,〔Carmody, Robin ''(The Bradshaw of Broadcasting )'' Off the Telly June 2000, accessed 1 June 2006〕 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.〔Alyett, Glenn ''(Strike Out )'' Talk of Thames, 2005, accessed 1 June 2006〕 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. ==Presentation== All programmes played during the service were repeats or had been pre-made for forthcoming transmission. Other than continuity, there was no live material.〔Hesford-Booth, Andrew ''(Emergency measures )'' Ident 24 May 2004, accessed 1 June 2006〕 The programmes were transmitted from the ATV switching centre at Foley Street in London, while a team of ex-ABC announcers based in both Teddington and Foley Street provided presentation. The announcing team for the special service was mainly David Hamilton, John Benson, Sheila Kennedy and Philip Elsmore, who would all continue as Thames announcers when the regional services restarted at the end of the strike.〔Beaumont, Ian ''(No Logo )'' Inside TV, 1 January 2002, accessed 1 June 2006〕 The service was mounted at short notice after several days of blank screens. The management team behind the emergency service had needed to create a quick and simple Independent Television national presentation style. The term 'Independent Television' was chosen for the 'temporary national station' (the term 'ITV' was relatively little used until the 1970s) and a range of simple, text-only captions was provided. No station symbol was used - the ident was simply the name in upper-case characters. A clock was borrowed from the ABC studios at Teddington and the ABC triangle on the clock was mostly covered with tape. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ITV Emergency National Service」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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