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Dull Voice overs..! (July 2004)

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Colm
Cheers AJA Smile

Yes, I'll make sure all the rags have the correctly proportioned, up to date TV channel logos; I should make that my first priority!

Feel free to mention my compiling of the TV listings, just remember my royalties rate is negotiable Wink
EI
Edward Ington-Lock
Col posted:
UTV KNOW where I am Wink

Seriously, UTV's voiceovers may ot have the same impact as the network trailers, but at least it's an attempt at enforcing a local identity for a local station on screen.


Even if that attempt simply reinforces all the worst stereotypes of low-budget, parochial regional TV?

A question to those people who dislike the dull, flat delivery of UTV and STV trailer voices... would you be mortally offended if UTV and STV left the NPU voices on?
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Colm
Edward Ington-Lock:
"A question to those people who dislike the dull, flat delivery of UTV and STV trailer voices... would you be mortally offended if UTV and STV left the NPU voices on?"

I certainly wouldn't be offended if the NPU voiceovers were left on "by mistake" Smile
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Lewis c
Edward Ington-Lock posted:
Col posted:
UTV KNOW where I am Wink

Seriously, UTV's voiceovers may ot have the same impact as the network trailers, but at least it's an attempt at enforcing a local identity for a local station on screen.


Even if that attempt simply reinforces all the worst stereotypes of low-budget, parochial regional TV?

A question to those people who dislike the dull, flat delivery of UTV and STV trailer voices... would you be mortally offended if UTV and STV left the NPU voices on?


I think it would be brilliant and add a touch of class to the STV voices.It is such a waste of the NPU team going to the trouble they do to produce high quality promos and the voices do match each style of promo at STV they just V/O over them and they do sound a bit flat and boring .I doubt anyway that the viewers would even care .
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Edward Ington-Lock
Lewis c posted:
I doubt anyway that the viewers would even care .


I think you're very probably right. But I can imagine STV and UTV insisting that civilisation would collapse and the sky would rain blood and frogs if the good people of Scotland and Northern Ireland heard anything other than Scottish or Irish voices on ITV trailers.
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Andrew Founding member
But they could get exciting scottish or irish voices to do the promos like they actually care and that match what it is they are promoting.

I bet Yorkshire's regional promos are a better overall package than UTV and Scottish's national ones.
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A.J.A.
Andrew posted:
I bet Yorkshire's regional promos are a better overall package than UTV and Scottish's national ones.


Do they include the over-enthusiastic bloke who used to proudly belt out of his lungs... "on Yorrrrrkssssshiiiiiire!". Hmmm... Our Aidan comes pretty close this end with his "on u-teee-veeeeeee!" His Building the Dream (daytime ITV1 reversion) being particularly memorable! Laughing
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Colm
A.J.A.:
"Our Aidan comes pretty close this end with his "on u-teee-veeeeeee!" His Building the Dream (daytime ITV1 reversion) being particularly memorable! Laughing"

Or what about Aidan's voiceover on the "Simply the Best" trailer? The first time I heard it I thought he was going to take off...
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nwtv2003
A.J.A. posted:
Do they include the over-enthusiastic bloke who used to proudly belt out of his lungs... "on Yorrrrrkssssshiiiiiire!". Hmmm... Our Aidan comes pretty close this end with his "on u-teee-veeeeeee!" His Building the Dream (daytime ITV1 reversion) being particularly memorable!


If you mean Pete Haslam, I'm afraid Granada made him redundant last year when the regional programmes had to make the trailers themselves.

At the moment on Granada we have a boring one for 'Are You Still Being Serviced?' with an ethusiastic Kevin Kennedy and one for 'Bootsale Challenge' with Ted Robbins in vision saying he's looked around a car boot sale and ate bacon sandwiches all morning.
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Andrew Founding member
nwtv2003 posted:
A.J.A. posted:
Do they include the over-enthusiastic bloke who used to proudly belt out of his lungs... "on Yorrrrrkssssshiiiiiire!". Hmmm... Our Aidan comes pretty close this end with his "on u-teee-veeeeeee!" His Building the Dream (daytime ITV1 reversion) being particularly memorable!


If you mean Pete Haslam, I'm afraid Granada made him redundant last year when the regional programmes had to make the trailers themselves.

He's still on Yorkshire carrying on as normal with the enthusiastic voiceovers. How this came about I don't know, maybe he was made redundant from GMG North Presentation Department and then re-employed by Yorkshire TV!
All YTV's trailers are currently done by him except the one for Theme Park which is voiced by Patsy Kensit.

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