He was very unhappy when he was told he would have to make a varied eight or nine hours of local programmes a week. Remember the Company was being run by Lord “licence to print money” Thomson, the man who thought running a television station meant installing two telecine machines – one to show old films and the other to show commercials. In the late sixties, Lord Hill, the Chairman of ITA, had visited STV and had been appalled at the quality of programmes. Haldane Duncan has written a number of great articles describing his early career in the dawning days of British television. Scotsport at times even reached No.1 whilst John Grierson’s This Wonderful World was known to have attained eighth spot. Locally produced programmes often did well in local TAM ratings. That cameraman could be my dad or else he ?directed the program…
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