SP
Indeed - Tony tells that story in this post
https://tvforum.uk/forums/post649472#post-649472
Wasn't there an occasion where a continuity announcer tuned in one morning, and heard his voice on a pre recorded authority announcement. They wondered where the scheduled announcer was, only to suddenly receive a phone call from Cowcaddens wondering where they were?!
Indeed - Tony tells that story in this post
https://tvforum.uk/forums/post649472#post-649472
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Also within that thread are two interviews with CA for nighttime and the end result of that thread is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Network
TC
Oh yes. I did. Ruined my breakfast, that one.
Wasn't there an occasion where a continuity announcer tuned in one morning, and heard his voice on a pre recorded authority announcement. They wondered where the scheduled announcer was, only to suddenly receive a phone call from Cowcaddens wondering where they were?!
Oh yes. I did. Ruined my breakfast, that one.
RO
During schools programmes, when they were broadcast on ITV, did STV announcers sit in on stand by, in case of a breakdown, or was it Central/ATV in Birmingham who did the announcements if there was a breakdown?
SC
I've heard both Central announcers and local announcers apologise for breakdowns during schools programmes. It depended on the nature of the breakdown - for example, if a programme failed to appear after the clock, or a fault developed midway through it, Birmingham would stick a caption up and give an apology. If for whatever reason the feed from Central to the region went down, then a local announcer would need to give the apology. It certainly seems that the regions all had an announcer standing by (perhaps doing other duties at the same time, such as rehearsing or recording trails, or - as I was told by a Tyne Tees announcer - typing up the following day's presentation schedule!)
During schools programmes, when they were broadcast on ITV, did STV announcers sit in on stand by, in case of a breakdown, or was it Central/ATV in Birmingham who did the announcements if there was a breakdown?
I've heard both Central announcers and local announcers apologise for breakdowns during schools programmes. It depended on the nature of the breakdown - for example, if a programme failed to appear after the clock, or a fault developed midway through it, Birmingham would stick a caption up and give an apology. If for whatever reason the feed from Central to the region went down, then a local announcer would need to give the apology. It certainly seems that the regions all had an announcer standing by (perhaps doing other duties at the same time, such as rehearsing or recording trails, or - as I was told by a Tyne Tees announcer - typing up the following day's presentation schedule!)
SP
I believe Tony has explained previously that it was a union agreement that an announcer would be present during broadcasting hours.
MA
Southern's Christopher Robbie's voice even popped up during the IBA Engineering Announcements apologising
for a loss of sound, and of course that wasn't an 'official' programme ! (It was a problem that affected the whole network, because they replayed much of the content the following week) I assume CR's voice was only heard in the Southern TV region (unless the IBA passed 'EAFtRaTVT' to Southern for networking ?)
I believe Tony has explained previously that it was a union agreement that an announcer would be present during broadcasting hours.
Southern's Christopher Robbie's voice even popped up during the IBA Engineering Announcements apologising
for a loss of sound, and of course that wasn't an 'official' programme ! (It was a problem that affected the whole network, because they replayed much of the content the following week) I assume CR's voice was only heard in the Southern TV region (unless the IBA passed 'EAFtRaTVT' to Southern for networking ?)
SP
I always thought EngAnn went directly to the transmitter sites (hence it being able to fill the switching break between TV-am and the regional contractor).
However I believe some emergency announcements were held on cart at the transmitter site, often voiced by the chief announcer of the ITV contractor. Perhaps that is what you heard?
However I believe some emergency announcements were held on cart at the transmitter site, often voiced by the chief announcer of the ITV contractor. Perhaps that is what you heard?
MA
This was pre-TVam, late 70s. The ITV companies were normally connected to their transmitters at 08:30. Thames used to show their continuity clock between 08:30 and the 'start up' sequence at 09:20 ish. Southern had bars and tone, HTV West had bars with a big white HTV logo superimposed. EA was at 09:10hrs back then, ahead of the start ups, there were no splats etc, so I assume back then it was routed via each company's pres suite, and the duty CA probably was in position preparing for the start up announcement at 09:20 ?
I always thought EngAnn went directly to the transmitter sites (hence it being able to fill the switching break between TV-am and the regional contractor).
However I believe some emergency announcements were held on cart at the transmitter site, often voiced by the chief announcer of the ITV contractor. Perhaps that is what you heard?
However I believe some emergency announcements were held on cart at the transmitter site, often voiced by the chief announcer of the ITV contractor. Perhaps that is what you heard?
This was pre-TVam, late 70s. The ITV companies were normally connected to their transmitters at 08:30. Thames used to show their continuity clock between 08:30 and the 'start up' sequence at 09:20 ish. Southern had bars and tone, HTV West had bars with a big white HTV logo superimposed. EA was at 09:10hrs back then, ahead of the start ups, there were no splats etc, so I assume back then it was routed via each company's pres suite, and the duty CA probably was in position preparing for the start up announcement at 09:20 ?
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RO
Just a quick mention, Grant Russell, on twitter, has said that he has now left STV. He was a sports reporter. He starts his new job in two weeks time, though no word where and doing what yet.