Anglia Announcer Dies

It's been reported on Digital Spy that Anglia TV Announcer from the 70's and 80's - Michael Speake died earlier this week.

Search www.itvlocal.com/angla for a short report.

<cue moans about death threads> (No offence)

I am sure there will be however for a forum based on 'Presentation related discussion' - I feel it's perfectly valid.

it's never moaning about death threads. its moaning about those who reply to them with simply "rip he will be missed" and other such cliches instead of actually adding anything to the topic, like anecdotes and the like.

My issue with them is in a similar vein - people cuting and pasting multi-paragraph obituaries from BBC News and then proclaiming that their thoughts are with the family and friends of the deceased even though its over a person they don't know and have never met just seems terribly false and not the subject of this forum (not, I hasten to add, that this has been done in this thread).

Quite spooky this -- I only just downloaded the Anglia continuity clips on TV-Ark the other day, hadn't bothered previously. Speake seemed a very professional announcer.

An article from the EDP which states he died in May, and some good antidotes from Helen McDermott in which she reveals what they got up to in between programmes.

Anglia Television - Michael Speake

Also Anglia have uploaded to ITV local:
http://www.itvlocal.com/anglia/
Click on search tab and “Speake” for an Anglia East tribute... also shows a great long shot of the Anglia continuity booth and of course BC!!

It should also be noted that in the late 1990’s when senior announcer Graham Bell died, Michael did return to Anglia just before contituity was transferred to Meridian and was announcing when Anglia Television celebrated their 40th in 1999.

I was watching a show taped from Anglia on Saturday introduced by him.

Ah well, hopefully gone to a better place.

RIP He will be sorely missed, I always felt as though he was a personal friend!
EDIT: My thoughts are with his friends and family.

She can resurrect the dead but they've got her doing that crap? She's wasting her career.

well that's just disrespectful isn't it.