[1] 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.
The management team behind the emergency service had needed to create a quick and simple national presentation style.
A version with the words "Independent Television" was commissioned but did not arrive until the final few days of the service and was only used briefly at the end of the period.
[7] During the course of the emergency management run service the network would be on air each day from around 4.45pm and would continue until 11.45pm as filled with repeats, imports and movies.
This would be near normal typical broadcasting hours in 1968 for ITV, as well as the BBC who were limited by the government to no more than eight hours per day of regular television programming in their regular daily schedules (with schools, adult education, religious and sporting coverages exempted from this daily limit).