UTV Presentation Thread

A few things to mention:

Firstly, new ident number 4:

http://www.utvtoday.co.uk/images/tvf/newidents_june2009_d.jpg

Secondly, a breakbumper for the programme mentioned above:

http://www.utvtoday.co.uk/videos/tvf/bb_julianL.mp4

And thirdly, Rose Neill was on continuity duty tonight. I've uploaded a selection of her links to YouTube:

YouTube Link

So now it seems UTV have ten continuity announcers on their roster, the most they've ever had at any one time to the best of my knowledge, as a heads-up:

Aidan Browne, Audra Thomas, Gillian Porter, Julian Simmons, Marc Mallett, Lynda Fulford, Pamela Ballantine, Robin Taylor, Rose Neill, Sarah Dobson

Do they think they're BBC Northern Ireland or something? I suspect some on the above list may no longer be announcing - in particular (and to my own concern) Robin - can anyone confirm what the situation is?

Also, I've noticed the weekend weather bulletins which have been available over the past two weeks have been voiced over by Julian - so have UTV gone back to just the 1827 bulletin presented in-vision?

Depending on who does the teatime forecast, the pre-recorded late one is sometimes done in-vision. If Frank or Marc are doing the weather then they will usually do the late one in-vision as well but if Pamela is doing the weather at 6:25pm then the late one won't be in-vision because she will be reading the news on UTV Live Tonight. The morning and lunchtime forecasts are never done in-vision anymore and are usually voiced by that woman with the HIDEOUS voice that emphasises the end of every SENTENCE!

Another in-vision announcer to add to the list, Rose Neill giving it a go tonight:

http://www.utvtoday.co.uk/videos/tvf/ivc_rose.mp4

I have to say Rose is looking very relaxed and happy at UTV.
I'd also go as far as to say she is the best female newsreader at Havelock House.

At the rate they are going I'm looking forward to Ann Osborough, John O'Hara, Helen Madden or Barbara Palmer popping up at UTV again.

Seriously though, Pamela and Rose are certainly outshining the young'uns at UTV.

Indeed they are.

It's either strange or stupid that Pamela did the weather forecast this lunchtime out-of-vision (and also yesterday). Given she doesn't have a radio programme on a certain radio station during the early hours, there's no real reason why she couldn't do the weather forecast in-vision, especially if that's one of the reasons UTV didn't send her packing. Unless she was CAing during the day today...

And I know I moan about it on the Newsroom, but I beg of anyone who reads this at Havelock House, PLEASE stop getting Rita McNulty to read news bulletins. The joke is not funny anymore.

I'm sure that very few people use it anymore but...

...UTV's ancillary teletext service (analogue) has been out-of-action for over a month. The header is frozen on page 641 from June 11th (the clock is still functional though).

I think the CSAs still make use of this text service, don't they?

oooooooo Gillian doing in-vision continuity tonight!

Indeed...

http://www.utvtoday.co.uk/videos/tvf/ivc_gillian.mp4

At last! Don't think Gilly's done an IVC link in five years so wonderful to see this.

At the moment, it seems like there's only Julian, Pamela, Rose and Gillian who are doing continuity at HavHo - is this the current state of play? I wonder if now school's out Robin will be doing a few shifts, and maybe we'll also see Aidan Browne on our screens as well.

EDIT: I wonder if this is a one-off given it's a Bank Holiday...

Yep, just Julian, Pamela, Rose and Gillian. Audra appears to have disappeared off the face of the planet again, Robin hasn't been seen since about Christmas and Aidan did continuity for one night a couple of months ago and hasn't been seen since. Sarah, Lynda and Marc also haven't done it for ages.