And then, all of a sudden, it would be possible to save much of the news programming and quality drama currently on the chopping block.

Journalists joined in by pulling the plug on public and private news programming, forcing television networks to broadcast reruns of soap operas, documentaries and cooking shows.

The strike has led to large cut in news programming.

After one year, the station's news programming was reduced mainly to updates shown during breaks within regular programming until the station went dark in 1987.

Compared to the other analogue broadcasters, it has relatively few public-service obligations, provision of news programming being one exception.