Then maybe the cost of live and recorded annos should be the same?
Err - how?
Surely you can see that it is cheaper to bring in one person for a couple of hours to record all the announcements back to back, than pay two or three people to sit in a booth, making only a couple of announcements an hour.
It is cheaper to pay one person to do a job rather than three.
I'm not saying the result is as good - but there is little argument that it is cheaper, unless you pay live con annos 1/3 the amount of money as a recorded announcer...
Surely you can see that it is cheaper to bring in one person for a couple of hours to record all the announcements back to back, than pay two or three people to sit in a booth, making only a couple of announcements an hour.
It is cheaper to pay one person to do a job rather than three.
What's cheaper isn't necessarily desirable - and recent problems have illustrated this perfectly!
Live announcers, particularly on ITV, weren't idle in the time between announcements. They were liasing with the VT and telecine areas to get the next programme ready for broadcast. They'd talk about the programme that was on and the forthcoming programmes with their colleagues throughout the building, and distill it into an essence which they could deliver as a considered but compact synopsis of the programme they're going to announce, or promote, next.
They could also be going through viewer's letters or be on the phone to the local newspapers or council, charities, schools or other organisations to find out more about events they'd asked them to promote verbally, as items that might be of interest to those resident in the region.
Live announcers, particularly in-vision ones, used to have MUCH more to do than just deliver the announcements, and it was a full working day.
The behind the scenes stuff was stuff that they enjoyed, and gave the job a bit more purpose than just being a voice-over artist.
Why do announcements have to be done by highly-paid voice-over artists anyway? An announcer should relate to the viewer, not sound as if they're announcing trains at a railway station.
Live announcers, particularly on ITV, weren't idle in the time between announcements. They were liasing with the VT and telecine areas to get the next programme ready for broadcast.
Wouldn't that be the job of the gallery team, especially the director?
Two special BBC ONE Wales St Davids Day idents are showing tonight. Just incase you didnt know....
One features school children and the other features a flag falling down from the roof of the Millenuim Stadium.
