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On This Day...7th August
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1985
Members of the National Union of Journalists at the BBC stage a 24-hour walkout over a ban on the transmission of a Real Lives documentary by the BBC Board of Governors.
The ban was regarded by the union as government censorship.
News programming on BBC TV and radio was blacked out. Journalists at TV-am, ITN and some ITV regional companies joined the strike action.
RELATED ARTICLE: TV-am off the air (7th August 1985).
RELATED ARTICLE: BBC Two continuity followed by Ceefax strike graphic (7th August 1985).
RELATED ARTICLE: Border Television continuity (7th August 1985).
The ban was regarded by the union as government censorship.
News programming on BBC TV and radio was blacked out. Journalists at TV-am, ITN and some ITV regional companies joined the strike action.
RELATED ARTICLE: TV-am off the air (7th August 1985).
RELATED ARTICLE: BBC Two continuity followed by Ceefax strike graphic (7th August 1985).
RELATED ARTICLE: Border Television continuity (7th August 1985).
Programmes
1966
The first edition of It's a Knockout airs on BBC One.
1980
The final episode of The Cuckoo Waltz airs on ITV.
1993
The pilot episode of Wycliffe airs on ITV.
The first series would follow in 1994.
The first series would follow in 1994.
1999
The final edition of Man O Man airs on ITV.
2020
The final edition of Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian airs on BBC Two.
Test Card/Teletext In-Vision Music
1969
BBC One tape Asia Minor airs for the final time.
1969
BBC Two tape Scotch Broth airs for the first time.
1999
BBC Two tape Before the Breeze airs for the first time.
On This Day...7th August
Births
1924
Former TV news presenter, Kenneth Kendall.
1940
Former TV announcer, David Allan.
1940
Former comedian, actor and TV presenter, Duggie Brown.
1947
TV presenter, Nick Ross.
1968
TV news presenter/reporter, Sian Lloyd.
1985
TV presenter, Wilfred Frost.
Deaths
1999
Former TV news reporter/presenter, Brian Connell.
2003
Former film historian and TV presenter, John Huntley.
Research for On This Day in TV History is by Paul R. Jackson.
Details about test card/teletext in-vision music and BBC trade test films are available as a result of decades of research and logging by members of the Test Card Circle.
Details about test card/teletext in-vision music and BBC trade test films are available as a result of decades of research and logging by members of the Test Card Circle.
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