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denton posted:
The TV Room posted:
Col posted:
Hmm, 10 years of continuity at Havelock House and the only thing that has changed is an announcer shaving off a moustache.


Well, maybe, maybe not.

I'm sure I've heard a new voice over some of their trails recently.


You have. It's the same voice on the UTV Internet/UTV Talk ads I think. An almost English sounding male voice.


Here he is on the UTV Talk ad: Click

And here he is voicing a recent trail for 'A Day in The Life': Click

He also did the voiceover for the Spring Cash & Car Giveaway competitions a few months ago: Click

Anyone know who he is?
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marksi
Yes... I do. Cool
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Pete Founding member
marksi posted:
Yes... I do. Cool


I think you're lying
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Colm
Peter:
"It's most likely a freelancer as they're not allowed to have UTV presenters voice commercial trails, they can get away with voicers for a furniture company but when it comes to a companies own commercial service that is advertised in the ad breaks that's a big no no"

More cans of worms...

Ah - but aren't four of the five announcers part-time (and Aidan himself refers to himself as a Freelance Presenter on the UTV website), so therefore they might, if they wanted to, provide a voiceover for any UTV advertising campaigns?

Probably explains why UTV's advertising campaigns, such as the 1995 "advertise with us" campaign with a Hendi v/o, and the 2000 "The Best Catch" ad had the voice of Laura Hughes, who I've also heard voicing ads for UTV Internet - while they voice trails, they don't provide any of the station's continuity.

Or wait - I recall back in 2001, when UTV showed daytime repeats of Coronation Street, Laura Hughes pre-recorded a continuity insert over the "UTV - TV For You" slide... or am I being a bit too pedantic?

While at UUC and looking through their audio/video archive, I came across a Stewarts advert from October 1984 with Pamela Ballantine in vision and John O'Hara doing the voiceover, at the time at least one of them was a UTV staff announcer... how did UTV get away with that?

Come to think it, didn't John O'Hara do proper ad voiceovers as well as card ads while he was a bona fide announcer at UTV?

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