Men from the Adverts Telly
Nonfiction, Entertainment, Television, Performing Arts, Biography & Memoir
| Author: | Ron Lewis | ISBN: | 9781476408439 |
| Publisher: | Ron Lewis | Publication: | March 26, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
| Author: | Ron Lewis |
| ISBN: | 9781476408439 |
| Publisher: | Ron Lewis |
| Publication: | March 26, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
| Language: | English |
Broadcasters behave outrageously in “Men from the Adverts Telly,” a Welsh journalist’s personal recollection of the Golden Age of Independent Television. Greedy bosses, bolshie unions and hell-raising hacks are recalled in a first book described by top literary agent James Gill as “intriguing and hair-raising stuff - Life on Mars meets Drop the Dead Donkey.”
David Lloyd, Former Head of Features at HTV Wales says, “Aberystwyth-born Ron Lewis takes the lid off a regional television newsroom in the 1970s and reveals a world of journalistic endeavour, madness, mayhem and lip-biting deadlines.”
Here is a first-hand account of work and pleasure in the TV studios of the 1970’s and early 80', when an ITV franchise really was a licence to print money. Ron revisits his time as a young reporter and scriptwriter during the adolescence of British television , remembering millionaire owners, stroppy shop stewards and the cleaner who saved the hardest toilet paper for the rear of the Chief Executive.
Would you like to travel back to the glory days of ITV? This book will entertain you with humour and memories sharp enough to cut through the tobacco haze of long-lost newsrooms. Why not return to an age of clockwork cameras, manual typewriters, recreational adultery and characters who really were legends in their own lunchtimes?
A former newspaper reporter, Ron joined the HTV Wales Newsroom in 1971, three years after Harlech TV, with its star-studded board of directors, became one of sixteen Independent Television companies serving the United Kingdom. He became a reporter, presenter and programme editor in an era when powerful trade unions and incompetent managers battled for control of the cultural playground that was ITV.
Ron was first described as the “Man from the Adverts Telly” in an underground message at a coal mine. He remained at HTV in various roles for 34 years. This factual collection of anecdotes comes after 42 years in journalism. Prepare to go back to a time of film, fun, unquenchable thirst and passion in the studio shrubbery.
Broadcasters behave outrageously in “Men from the Adverts Telly,” a Welsh journalist’s personal recollection of the Golden Age of Independent Television. Greedy bosses, bolshie unions and hell-raising hacks are recalled in a first book described by top literary agent James Gill as “intriguing and hair-raising stuff - Life on Mars meets Drop the Dead Donkey.”
David Lloyd, Former Head of Features at HTV Wales says, “Aberystwyth-born Ron Lewis takes the lid off a regional television newsroom in the 1970s and reveals a world of journalistic endeavour, madness, mayhem and lip-biting deadlines.”
Here is a first-hand account of work and pleasure in the TV studios of the 1970’s and early 80', when an ITV franchise really was a licence to print money. Ron revisits his time as a young reporter and scriptwriter during the adolescence of British television , remembering millionaire owners, stroppy shop stewards and the cleaner who saved the hardest toilet paper for the rear of the Chief Executive.
Would you like to travel back to the glory days of ITV? This book will entertain you with humour and memories sharp enough to cut through the tobacco haze of long-lost newsrooms. Why not return to an age of clockwork cameras, manual typewriters, recreational adultery and characters who really were legends in their own lunchtimes?
A former newspaper reporter, Ron joined the HTV Wales Newsroom in 1971, three years after Harlech TV, with its star-studded board of directors, became one of sixteen Independent Television companies serving the United Kingdom. He became a reporter, presenter and programme editor in an era when powerful trade unions and incompetent managers battled for control of the cultural playground that was ITV.
Ron was first described as the “Man from the Adverts Telly” in an underground message at a coal mine. He remained at HTV in various roles for 34 years. This factual collection of anecdotes comes after 42 years in journalism. Prepare to go back to a time of film, fun, unquenchable thirst and passion in the studio shrubbery.
