The older bloke is called Bob Preedy. The older woman is Maggie Mash (or at least that's how she was credited on an old schools prog she narrated many moons ago). The others, I'm not sure about. The noisy bloke that does the trailers I think is either a professional freelancer or from LWT, he does the recorded announcements on ITV1 Nighttime during weekends.
Here's a point though -- how are all these annos saving the company money?? Tyne Tees made do for years with only 2 announcers and before then they often only had 3 plus a couple of relief annos, surely 6 is just extravagance? It seems to me that they could have 2 annos for each station and it would hardly cost any more than it does now. But then, since when did common sense prevail at the Leeds Broadcast Centre? The cost of all the extra technology there when there were only two stations taking part was at least 10 times the budget of the 2 old continuity departments, so all their bleating about money-saving now holds no sympathy with me!
Here's a point though -- how are all these annos saving the company money?? Tyne Tees made do for years with only 2 announcers and before then they often only had 3 plus a couple of relief annos, surely 6 is just extravagance? It seems to me that they could have 2 annos for each station and it would hardly cost any more than it does now.
If they only had 2 announcers, they'd both have to work 7 days a week though.
There are 2 shifts a day
9.25am-3.00pm & funnilly enough the 5.30pm announcement
then
5.55pm-1.00am-ish
At least all Leeds' announcements are live or near-to Live, Some regions (such as UTV) either have recorded annoucements or none at all during the daytime
TT just used to get round it by having no announcements before 12pm (no big deal as there's only really one anyway, the 9.25 one which can be pre-recorded) then go home at about 11.30pm and record any announcements after that (no big deal as there's not much after that). It's a long shift but it's only a 3/4 day week so 40 hours total. Seemed to work for them
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andyeighteen
does anyone know the name of any of the central announcers? one of them sounds like su evans - but im not 100%
i havent noticed any decrease in central continuity (although they use the 'carlton' name, it sounds like its all still done by central... have carlton decided to retain regional continuity in carlton london, central, westcountry and htv ?
The Carlton/Central Announcers include Freelancer Su Evans who was one of the original announcers when Central took over from ATV in 1982.
The other female voice whose name escapes me, also works for YTV, Tyne Tees, Granada and Border.
Male voices include Andy Marriott whose work for the station has now reduced as he is now the afternoon jock on Saga Radio in the West Midlands.
Carlton/Central has only one announcer per day working 'live' from 12 midday until midnight. After midnight any local announcememts are recorded as are any annoucements for the following day between 0925 and 1200.
More regularly than ever we are hearing the voice of the 'National ITV' announcers who are in fact Carlton/LWT voices.
So regional continuity continues in the Central region although slightly cut down. Up until 18 months ago we used to have two announcers per day.
Bob Preedy?
Not the same guy who presents 'Hot Country - with Bob Preedy' across the BBC North Radio Network on Sundays?
Oh my god, thinking about it, the voice is very familiar!
(Edited by InTune at 10:30 pm on Oct. 19, 2001)
And in case anyone wants to have a listen to see if it is the YTV announcer...
Bob Preedy's hot Country is on Tonight (Saturday) from 9pm on BBC Local Radio in the macro-North area
Thats BBC Radios Cleveland, Cumbria, Humberside, Leeds, Newcastle, Sheffield, York and possibly others, 'on the air throughout the day'
SD
Sam Davis
AFAIK Meridian and Anglia always use their own names and rarely mention ITV1 - occasionally they say 'over on ITV2 now is The Goal Rush, but now on Meridian its our Saturday movie' or whatever.
Never heard them say 'and now on ITV1' apart from after an ITN newsburst on the American attacks and he was like 'programmes will continue as normal here on ITV1'.
The announcers on Meridian are not very chatty, except for when they have to fill a 15 second gap in the morning as 9.25 before the trailer which preceeds Watch To Win - they usually say 'Good Morning (really friendly but completely false tone), you're watching Meridian (cheesy) on Monday 16th November 2001 (for example), coming up, Watch to Win, but now lets take a look at whats coming up later tonight...' - trailer.
The worst Meridan/Anglia (?) voice-over is this bloke with a really deep gravely voice - cough for goodness sake man!
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andyeighteen
Steve Hyden posted:
The Carlton/Central Announcers include Freelancer Su Evans who was one of the original announcers when Central took over from ATV in 1982.
The other female voice whose name escapes me, also works for YTV, Tyne Tees, Granada and Border.
Male voices include Andy Marriott whose work for the station has now reduced as he is now the afternoon jock on Saga Radio in the West Midlands.
Carlton/Central has only one announcer per day working 'live' from 12 midday until midnight. After midnight any local announcememts are recorded as are any annoucements for the following day between 0925 and 1200.
More regularly than ever we are hearing the voice of the 'National ITV' announcers who are in fact Carlton/LWT voices.
So regional continuity continues in the Central region although slightly cut down. Up until 18 months ago we used to have two announcers per day.
Steve
thanks for the names, i just found that Andy Marriott has a website - on it are examples of his continuity on meridian, lwt, family ch, etc ... but theres a funny example from central, where he improvises with a tea tray lol. and theres his announcement from when diana died - wth the on screen menu they used on central too.
JA
james
What I dont understand is that why do Anglia/Meridian/LWT announcers say `now on Meridian` etc whilst Leeds announcers say `now on ITV1`they are all Granada companies so its obviously not Granada`s policy to say ITV1 otherwise Southampton would also adopt this policy. Leeds has the technology to use regional continuity it cost a fortune apparently so why is it not used???
