BBC1 Strike announcement
Broadcast
9th May 1994
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Yes it can still happen! Following the bitter dispute at TV-am in the late 1980s, the Tory government all but deunionised the broadcast industry. However, the unions can still disrupt schedules and that's what happened on May 9th 1994, when BECTU and the NUJ staged a 24-hour stoppage. There was no danger of blank screens but news programmes were blacked out; announcer Roger Maude explains why there's no Business Breakfast today.