the emergency schedule offered by Channel Television during the strike can be seen here below, with the schedule for Thursday 6 September 1979: 1.20pm – Channel News and Weather 1.30pm – Closedown 5.00pm – Puffin 5.05pm – Call It Marcaroni 5.30pm – Lost Island 6.00pm – Report Extra 7.00pm – Al Oeming 7.30pm – The New Avengers 8.30pm – Film: Slightly Scarlet (1956) 10.00pm – Channel News and Weather 10.05pm – Cash and Company 11.00pm – Channel News Headlines and Weather 11.05pm – Closedown All other regions showed a specially-made apology caption generated by the IBA, which was for a time amended to include an appeal on behalf of the West Yorkshire Police in their hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper. The only other content broadcast outside of the Channel Television region was the IBA's Engineering Announcements. Post-1979 strike The strike ended with victory for the unions in a dispute, estimated to have cost the companies £100 million in lost revenue. Channel alone lost £10,000 per week due to the strike. Technicians saw a 45% increase in their salary, from £8,000 to £11,620. Programming resumed at 5.38pm on Wednesday 24 October 1979. Returning viewers were greeted with a new jingle, "Welcome home to ITV", sung by the Mike Sammes Singers. The first night's schedule back after the strike was filled by programmes already "in the can" before the strike commenced. Both Crossroads and Coronation Street aired special introductions to their first episodes back, to inform viewers of the events in both soaps, where they left off back in July 1979. The first night schedule was networked from Thames Television in London to all ITV regional companies across the United Kingdom as part of their national emergency schedule, and was as follows: 5.45pm – ITN News at 5.45 with Leonard Parkin 6.05pm – The Muppet Show (with special guest: Dudley Moore) 6.35pm – Crossroads 7.00pm – George and Mildred 7.30pm – Coronation Street 8.00pm – 3-2-1 with Ted Rogers (guest starring Norman Wisdom and Anna Dawson) 9.00pm – Quatermass (Part 1) 10.00pm – News at Ten with Alastair Burnet and Anna Ford 10.30pm – Film: Chinatown (1974) 1.00am – Closedown When the strike ended, ITV had the task of luring back viewers from the BBC. This proved difficult as production of original programming had stopped and would not be available for several months; ITV therefore suffered in the ratings at the hands