The Colour Strike was an industrial action by technicians at all ITV companies from 13 November 1970 to 8 February 1971 (although some shows made during this period in black and white were having their first transmission as late as December 1971), who due to a pay dispute with their management, refused to work with colour television equipment. At that time ITV had recently switched to colour transmissions, requiring the individual companies to invest heavily in new equipment.

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  • The Colour Strike was an industrial action by technicians at all ITV companies from 13 November 1970 to 8 February 1971 (although some shows made during this period in black and white were having their first transmission as late as December 1971), who due to a pay dispute with their management, refused to work with colour television equipment. At that time ITV had recently switched to colour transmissions, requiring the individual companies to invest heavily in new equipment. Colour cameras consisted of four tubes to relay the picture: three were receptive to colour (red, green and blue - the chrominance signal) with the fourth providing a high-resolution monochrome image. The final colour picture was created by combining the chrominance and luminance signals, but the technicians simply switched off the colour tubes whilst this dispute took place. This meant that even though the equipment was available, all shows had to be broadcast in monochrome,; thus denying the ITV companies the ability to sell airtime at the higher value that colour transmissions dictated. In some film sequences for location shots in these programmes (shot in colour), the colour signal from the telecine machine had to be switched off in the vision mixing desk before being recorded to tape, but this was partly unsuccessful, leading to some film sequences being recorded with an odd array of pale colours (as for items where the colour is a mix of two primary colours, only one primary colour would show). This is prominent in the second series of Hadleigh. For example, the first Coronation Street to be broadcast in colour was on 24 November 1969, but due to the strike, many 1970/71 editions (such as the death of Valerie Barlow by electrocution) were filmed in black and white. The last monochrome edition was on the 8 February 1971. There was also a short dispute two years later in early 1973 affecting both BBC channels and ITV as well.
  • Fargestreiken var en arbeidskonflikt som gjaldt ansatte i det britiske TV-nettverket ITVs selskaper fra 13. november 1970 til 8. februar 1971. Konflikten skyldtes at selskapenes fotografer hadde fått et lønnstillegg da farge-TV ble innført, mens lydteknikerne ikke fikk dette tillegget. I sympati med lydteknikerne nektet så selskapenes fotografer å filme i farger. ITV hadde begynte å sende i farger 15. november 1969, samtidig med BBC1. På den tida hadde TV-kameraene fire linser. Tre av linsene filmet hver sin farge, mens den fjerde linsen filmet i svart/hvitt. Under fargestreiken brukte fotografene bare svart/hvitt-linsen. Dermed kunne programmene bare vises i svart/hvitt, selv om det fantes utstyr til å vise sendinger i farger. TV-selskapene tapte penger fordi de ikke kunne selge reklametid til høyere pris for fargesendinger. Dette fikk betydning for flere TV-serier, som et års tid hadde blitt filmet og vist i farger, men som under streiken igjen ble filmet i svart/hvitt. En kortvarig, lignende konflikt oppsto også tidlig i 1973, og påvirket både ITV og BBCs to kanaler.
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  • The Colour Strike was an industrial action by technicians at all ITV companies from 13 November 1970 to 8 February 1971 (although some shows made during this period in black and white were having their first transmission as late as December 1971), who due to a pay dispute with their management, refused to work with colour television equipment. At that time ITV had recently switched to colour transmissions, requiring the individual companies to invest heavily in new equipment.
  • Fargestreiken var en arbeidskonflikt som gjaldt ansatte i det britiske TV-nettverket ITVs selskaper fra 13. november 1970 til 8. februar 1971. Konflikten skyldtes at selskapenes fotografer hadde fått et lønnstillegg da farge-TV ble innført, mens lydteknikerne ikke fikk dette tillegget. I sympati med lydteknikerne nektet så selskapenes fotografer å filme i farger. ITV hadde begynte å sende i farger 15. november 1969, samtidig med BBC1. På den tida hadde TV-kameraene fire linser.
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  • Colour Strike
  • Fargestreiken
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