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(January 2003)

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A former member
Banksey posted:
Jamez posted:
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I'm not keen on the ITV1 Wales announcers. They sound rather amatuerish.


Care to elaborate on that, Jamez? Am genuinely interested in your thinking on this.[/quote]

Some of the announcements are very poorly presented. Leighton would sound better if he didn't try to sound like a voice on a movie trailer.

Sue Powell sounds like she's bored and in a bad mood. I get the impression from hearing her that she's always bursting for the toilet Rolling Eyes

Bring back the days of Dan Lewis and yourself - at least in those days I wasn't frantically looking for the remote control to press the 'Mute' button. Smile
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smw
mizzb posted:
smw wrote:
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Lucy has started presenting the Breakfast show on Red Dragon
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Do you mean Lucy Cohen ?

If so that is very surprising.


Indeed I do. the South Wales Echo says that she hopes to continue presenting the HTV news five days a week as well as this new job, or words to that effect.
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ohwhatanight Founding member
smw posted:
mizzb posted:
smw wrote:
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Lucy has started presenting the Breakfast show on Red Dragon
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Do you mean Lucy Cohen ?

If so that is very surprising.


Indeed I do. the South Wales Echo says that she hopes to continue presenting the HTV news five days a week as well as this new job, or words to that effect.


Yes Lucy was very good this morning but I think there are only so many things she can talk about with the TAFIA! She will be going down the same road as Emma which will eventually get boring!

From the title of the show 'Jason and Friends' I assume that Lucy will be doing this week ONLY and other people filling in thereafter! Lucy is surely contracted to HTV and if they let her do 'other work' that is at their descretion?

Remember that Jon Hill and Lucy presented the Red Dragon Breakfast show for a week last year aswell! I wonder if Jon will be a guest in future weeks?
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[quote="Jez"]I agree Sian Lloyds looks great for 44.quote]

Does anybody have capures of Sian Lloyd from her days as a continuity announcer with S4C. At some time during the 80's S.L. had a very short hairstyle, not to disimilar to a crewcut, i.e. it was short and spikey. Completly different to the S.L. of today
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Banksey Founding member
Jamez posted:
Banksey posted:
Jamez posted:
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I'm not keen on the ITV1 Wales announcers. They sound rather amatuerish.


Care to elaborate on that, Jamez? Am genuinely interested in your thinking on this.


Some of the announcements are very poorly presented. Leighton would sound better if he didn't try to sound like a voice on a movie trailer.

Sue Powell sounds like she's bored and in a bad mood. I get the impression from hearing her that she's always bursting for the toilet Rolling Eyes

Bring back the days of Dan Lewis and yourself - at least in those days I wasn't frantically looking for the remote control to press the 'Mute' button. Smile[/quote]

Thanks for that. I was trying to establish if it was a personal preference or whether you heard something else. It seems to me you are not just expressing a preference, you've obviously given the matter some thought.

I always welcomed feedback from people, partcularly the negative things and I got loads !!!!!!!!!!
JE
Jez Founding member
Banksey I always thought your announcements were very good - Ditto Dan Lewis and Sue Powell-Reid. Leighton is OK but gets on my nerves after a while. I cant stand Dillwyn though - he is very "Old School" in his announcing.

They have just shown Phillipa outside the HTV Studio with the HTV logo there - none of this ITV1 nonsence! LOL

Jon and Lucy back at 6pm tonight. Juliet is on after for the late bulletin. tommorow morning we might get Justina again?

http://www.htvwales.com/blobs/news/justinalunch.gif
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ohwhatanight Founding member
Jez posted:
Banksey I always thought your announcements were very good - Ditto Dan Lewis and Sue Powell-Reid. Leighton is OK but gets on my nerves after a while. I cant stand Dillwyn though - he is very "Old School" in his announcing.

http://www.htvwales.com/blobs/news/justinalunch.gif


Im sure i heard Leighton announcing this morning then I heard the female announcer - now I can hear Leighton announcing again! Why was the woman only heard for a few hours?
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A former member
Banksey posted:


Thanks for that. I was trying to establish if it was a personal preference or whether you heard something else. It seems to me you are not just expressing a preference, you've obviously given the matter some thought.

I always welcomed feedback from people, partcularly the negative things and I got loads !!!!!!!!!!


Not much thought (unless you were being sarcastic! lol). I'm just an average viewer too, so I what I hear and what I interperet is probably what the rest of the HTV viewers do too.
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A former member
ohwhatanight posted:
Jez posted:
Banksey I always thought your announcements were very good - Ditto Dan Lewis and Sue Powell-Reid. Leighton is OK but gets on my nerves after a while. I cant stand Dillwyn though - he is very "Old School" in his announcing.

http://www.htvwales.com/blobs/news/justinalunch.gif


Im sure i heard Leighton announcing this morning then I heard the female announcer - now I can hear Leighton announcing again! Why was the woman only heard for a few hours?


Pre-recroded announcements probably.
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A former member
Jamez posted:
Banksey posted:


Thanks for that. I was trying to establish if it was a personal preference or whether you heard something else. It seems to me you are not just expressing a preference, you've obviously given the matter some thought.

I always welcomed feedback from people, partcularly the negative things and I got loads !!!!!!!!!!


Not much thought (unless you were being sarcastic! lol). I'm just an average viewer too, so I what I hear and what I interperet is probably what the rest of the HTV viewers do too.


What's your nickname BROWN NOSE and as for the rest, well, you're just a wannabe.
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A former member
cue dot posted:
Jamez posted:
Banksey posted:


Thanks for that. I was trying to establish if it was a personal preference or whether you heard something else. It seems to me you are not just expressing a preference, you've obviously given the matter some thought.

I always welcomed feedback from people, partcularly the negative things and I got loads !!!!!!!!!!


Not much thought (unless you were being sarcastic! lol). I'm just an average viewer too, so I what I hear and what I interperet is probably what the rest of the HTV viewers do too.


What's your nickname BROWN NOSE and as for the rest, well, you're just a wannabe.


A wannabe ITV1 Wales viewer? If I didn't have a television, then yes I probably would be a 'wannabe' viewer.

I don't know what your problem is, although if you are an ITV1 Wales announcer you're bound to be in a bad mood because you and I both know that in 12-18 months from now you'll be looking for another job.
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ohwhatanight Founding member
Jamez posted:
I don't know what your problem is, although if you are an ITV1 Wales announcer you're bound to be in a bad mood because you and I both know that in 12-18 months from now you'll be looking for another job.


Jamez YOU think you know it all - you had a tour around BBC and HTV a while back now and proclaim to know EVERYTHING this is going on at each station!

You ARE a wannabe and talk some absolute garbage at times! Its people like YOU Jamez that need to retain your belief in regional tv (being a wannabe and all that) becuase if you keep talking about these 'so-called' changes that alledgly are going to happen 'in your infinite wisdom' just because you have visited a couple of tv stations i think you might as well apply for a job in London now!

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