By the way - yes I gather they are all on freelance contracts - or so I hear. But then that's like everywhere now . The days of the 'staff announcer' are long gone...
By the way - yes I gather they are all on freelance contracts - or so I hear. But then that's like everywhere now . The days of the 'staff announcer' are long gone...
Mind you - no one liked the original lot in 2002 either ! You never what you've got til it's gone......
That's not true the likes of Graham Rogers, Paul Seed & Graham Bannerman were often praised on here. In those early days of national continuity we still occasionally enjoyed the likes of Trish Bertram, Glen T & Mark Lipscomb.
These were announcers who had obtained years of skill in the broadcasting industry - yet what we get now are a team who find it diffcult to reflect different shows or go from one mood to another - this is a skill and hearing some of the current batch especially those awful females tripping over words and not thinking about what they are saying just makes every link bland and sound exactly the same! Dull - very dull.
I agree TV Times ...I was thinking of one or two that didn't get praised so highly in those times ...and there was still a bit of a howl of outrage going on about the demise of the regions. The ones you mention all came from that era too....and had done their time - so at least they knew how it worked.
Mind you Trish Bertram is still going strong on Five and still doing bits on ITV3 . It must be over 20 years now at least...
The current ITV1 announcers are rubbish IMO, especially the female announcer who seems to be on most evenings.
You'll have to be more descriptive to make sense, just saing rubbish is a bit teenager unless you are one of course !
The point is no channel needs ANY continuity announcer and never has done. It is some odd and very very dated 'thing' that UK TV has had to suffer ever since TV started in the UK. Just play a slick animated channel logo and playout the programme - on time would be good as well. This is the way it is in Australia and always has been, probably most countries certainly the USA
:-(
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Talking of a slick animated logo (but okay, with a voiceover) I noticed ITV4 has another new ident used to introduce films. I don't know how long it's been airing as I don't usually dip in to the channel.
