Was it Robin Holmes who used to read so beautifully john Clare's Shepherd's Calendar each month? The last excellent presenter was Rob Cowan, who for whatever reason left Radio 3 and moved to Classic FM. Lyn started working at Tyne Tees as a continuity announcer in 1975. She is on Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., and if you are unlucky enough to catch her talking about her choices you will hear the tones that stupid adults use when they address small children: modulating her voice to express amazement or self-endorsement; using every known, and some previously unknown, irritating inflection. RT One used in-vision continuity on a regular basis until August 1995[6][7] and briefly reprieved the practice during the Christmas holidays and for overnight programmes in the late 1990s. The programme airs between 1am and 5am every night. Like one comment above, the wife who cant stand G Manns voice, I am in that camp. Aggers voice is so calming, Simon Scully-Horner states, that he could comment on the Boxing Day sales on Oxford Street and make it feel like a long lazy summer Sunday afternoon. Until 2014, his programme was broadcast in the UK as Garrison Keillors Radio Show, part of Radio 4 Extra. There was also the spontaneous verbal patter of Radio 1s young DJs, whose informality seemed the very antithesis of the old Home Service and Third Programme way of doing things. These people are self aggrandising and immature in their handling of what is meant to be an arts channel. Originally, a number of staff announcers shared the duties; however, in 2004, the service began employing actress Shauna MacDonald as its primary continuity announcer. Since the mid-1990s, it has also been common for networks to place trailers promoting upcoming programs during the preceding program's credits (known in some circles as "generic credits", "split-screen credits", "squeezed credits" or "credit crunch"). The small tourism-dependent community of Estes Park, Colo., had a tough tourist season this year due to fires, flooding and the government shutdown. Continuity announcers appeared in-vision on the three main RAI channels, where female continuity announcers are known as signorine buonasera (or 'good evening ladies'), until 31 May 2016, although by that time, their role was much more marginal than it used to be. 7 - Rest your voice. About. ), you get to see their announcing team on a regular basis and they even plug programmes during the weather forecasts. Entry-level Radio TV Announcers with little to no experience can expect to make anywhere between $19,580 to $25,110 per year or $9 to $12 per hour. Mainly Saturday PM earlier this year, but I haven't heard much R3 recently.. has worked on R4 too.. 30-05-20, 19:56 #7. That shake-up included the announcing team who were told that not all of their services will be required in the future. Briefly an announcer with the South African Broadcasting Corporation. Jan 16. She underwent music based physio therapy and has regained her speech such that she was able to appear on womans hour. She has become known for her work presenting Radio 3s Breakfast programme, as well as lunchtime and evening concerts and a range of programmes on Radio 3, including Words and Music. Left the BBC in 1962 to look after her family, returning in 1969 initially freelance and then back on the staff in 1970. No, worse there is none. May 1999 - Present24 years. A bit dull really, her manner I mean. He joins a. How someone with a borderline speech defect gets to be a radio presenter is a mystery to me. I may add further team members at a later date by editing this post. Continuity announcer definition: A continuity announcer is someone who introduces the next programme on a radio or. attempting to play a CD (sorry, "cmPACT" disc) of some Schubert piano works, battling with two faulty CD players, then upsetting his tea into the newly-installed mixing desk, and finally, after several minutes of silence, re-appearing from another studio, completely out of breath. Former jazz drummer and voice of Jazz Record Requests on BBC Radio 3 from 1991 until 2012, Geoffrey Smith now presents his own weekly programme - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz - on Sundays at midnight,. When Alistair McGowan's new radio comedy is introduced by one of Radio 4's continuity announcers tonight, listeners might be forgiven for a moment's confusion. Back in 2008, Post Office Telecoms researchers working on a mathematical formula to identify the perfect female human voice found that this would be a mixture of Frostrups and actresses Judi Dench and Honor Blackman. Joined Radio 4 in Northern Ireland in 1972 before transferring to Radio 3 as announcer and presenter of. Foster a rewarding, supportive, and motivating environment for staff, encouraging innovation and . Introducing Ravel's Miroirs, he read Ravel's own description of noctuelles, 'as of butterflies draped over an old beam, like some sort of cravat.' The meetings focused on the feature progress and schedule for Release 18 (R18) and included the initial discussions of Release 19 planning. Other accounts in the archive reveal a small group of senior managers equally keen on finding a relaxed microphone style. Alan ap Brinley, Gwenno ap Dafydd, Elan ap Robert, Nia Ceidiog, Glenda Clwyd, Dennis Francis, Rowenna Griffin, Heulwen Haf, Elinor John, John Jones, Robin Jones, Rowena Jones-Thomas. Soviet Central Television widely used in-vision continuity announcers (which were usually called diktor, can be translated as announcer or speaker) between programmes to tell the viewers about forthcoming programmes, changes in the schedule, or to read the whole schedule for the remainder of current day or for the next day. It makes everything feel like its in the correct place and all is well, continues our reader, adding that he is not sure if its because of the time [Sharp] is on, or his voice, or a combination of both. Catherine Whale, Jason Milligan, Angus Miller, Andrea Fox, General continuity: Toni Frutin (2007 - present), Angus Miller (2014 - present), Flora Munro (2014 - present), Donald Pirie (2014 - present), Jim Symon (1983 - present), Kerry Boyne, Luke Franks, Sam Homewood, Robyn Richford, Tillie Amartey, Tim Dann (freelancer), Noah Ros. But when hed joined the BBC in 1952, he discovered his allocated role was to be simply a mouth opening and shutting in this tiny little studio in the double basement of Broadcasting House. A continuity announcer is a broadcaster whose voice (and, in some cases, face) appears between radio or television programmes to give programme information. Broadcaster Continuity Announcer Continuity Announcers are the friendly voice equivalent of a combined schedule and programme guide: a trusted advisor who always seems to be speaking directly to individual viewers as opposed to a mass audience. However, this kind of segment has been withdrawn in recent years. Listeners have been writing in anger to Slippedisc and other outlets. Became the Presentation Editor in 1972. Edit this page yourself. He speaks beautifully and recognises that a few seconds of silence on radio are not a terrible thing, states mcscotty, who also notes that Mair gives his interviewees time to speak and poses questions with real warmth. Minority Language Media - Michael J. Cormack 2007-01-01 This book is an international collection of essays by 14 researchers. March 17, 2021 BBC Radio 3 has relegated one of its best presenters to the afternoon graveyard slot with this statement: Ian Skelly joins Afternoon Concert from 12th April. Most other commercial channels broadcast from London and use out-of-vision announcers. It appears from some of the previous comments thats its fine for a man to be witty but not a woman. or with . 'I still have the cassette. Robin Holmes was the father of Jeremy Holmes who is currently giving readings of Tolstoy from a psychodynamic perspective..he is a psychiatrist/ retired psychoanlytic psychotherapist and world renowned expert of attachment theor. Anyone who has listened regularly to Radio 3 over the decades not to mention the Third Programme, which Radio 3 replaced in 1967, and which provided an incomparable musical education for many of us cant have failed to notice the change in style and standard of presentation. Presented, Joined the BBC as a secretary in 1944 before becoming an announcer on the General Overseas Service in 1946. Argues that community radio and television worldwide represents an essential service for indigenous and ethnic audiences. The come-to-bed, have another whisky voice of GM makes Classic FM a real temptation not, surely, what the BBC wants and Im sorry for her to be put in this position; shes NOT hugely experienced and, initially, German esp. I haven't come across her presentiing. In this interview, Newby refers to a famous 1948 BBC radio broadcast, in which Bertrand Russell and Father Copleston debated the existence of God Newby points in particular to the revolutionary potential of the tape-recorder how it allowed broadcasters to escape the tyranny of over-rehearsed scripts. the umlaut were to her unknowe. John Urquhart, Di Christie, Steve McKenna, Andrea Fox, Rio Attoh-Wood, Christine Hewitt, Jason Milligan, Andrew Hayden-Smith, Angus Miller, Marlie Stephens, Stephen Tree, Sophie Wallace, Brian Yerevan. Continuity announcers played a much heavier role on the pre-1967 Home Service, Light Programme and Third Programme (and other services on the last-named's frequency). Continuity is used all the time in the United Kingdom. Skill Level: 3. Over 15 years of live broadcasting experience. GMG Radio 3 years 7 months . Radio 3 Presentation Team in 1972. That mans voice could engage me, soothe me and deeply move me, says timbloke, nominating Keillor for this list. But alas only one can be played, and duly is. Her identity remained a secret for more than a year, leading her to be dubbed "Promo Girl". Also when R3 was often interrupted by Test Match Cricket, on one occasion he announced dolefully -And now Its CRICKET. Garry, I took the names from Humphrey Carpenter's book The Envy of the World but can't be 100% certain. Eddie Mair, the voice of BBC Radio 4s daily news programme PM, should make the list because of his very sensitive interviewing technique and understated sense of humour, explains gjhleval. All domestic terrestrial channels in Ireland make use of continuity announcers, mainly to introduce programmes, promote forthcoming programmes, provide information relating to the programme just broadcast and, in the case of stations with sister channels, cross-promote programmes on the other channel (such as linking between RT One and Two, or TV3 and 3e). Victor Hallam - a charming man, always immaculately clad in a 3 piece suit, with gold watch and chain. Originally Posted by kernelbogey. - Provide commentary for the audience during sporting events, parades, etc. Thank you to James C and Viji A for their edits on this page. Many listeners thought so and werent at all happy. Select your subscription length below and head to the checkout: Please log in again. How wonderful to hear some of these voices again. I wish presenters would stop mumbling into the microphone and speak clearly- those who drop their voices at the end of sentences are especially irritating as are those who speak intimately as though the listener is next to them in the same room. makers. Back row (l to r): Jon Curle, Victor Hallam, Tony Scotland, Donald Price, Cormac Rigby, Front row: part of Tom Crowe, Peter Barker, Patricia Hughes, Robin Holmes, Norman Mcleod, Trained at RADA and worked for several years as an actor. ETSI 2 ETSI TS 102 693 V1.1.2 (2009-11) Reference RTS/JTC-DAB-63 . BBC Radio 3 has relegated one of its best presenters to the afternoon graveyard slot with this statement:Ian Skelly joins Afternoon Concert from 12th April. It typically includes programme schedules, announcement of the programme immediately following and trailers or descriptions of forthcoming programmes. Twitter: @vijialles (1,344 followers) See how he compares to everyone in British radio. Some local TV stations, mainly regional representatives of VGTRK, used in-vision continuity announcers further, until early 2000s, but also replaced them with different types of on-screen messages. The question is: need things have gone so far; need we have to endure the matiness and simulated breathless enthusiasm that is now de rigueur for concert and opera announcers? Back in the 1930s, the writer Compton Mackenzie had accused the Corporation of sounding unbearably prissy, exuding what he called finicking, suburban, synthetic, plus-fours gentility. Steve Adams, Kelsey Eyre, Chris Folwell, Becky Graham, Max Hayes, Lucy Jones, Amy Solomon, Alex Carter. The general decline on Radio 3 into a too-chummy (accessible?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOHvQyktlGg. In Japan, continuity segments on most TV stations are done by airing a program specifically for program promotion which is called (, bansen bangumi) which airs for a few minutes or longer. @hammondweather. But what the episode surely highlights is the toxic managerial culture in the BBC. Both Kanal 1 and TV2, as well as the educational television service UR, continued to use in-vision announcers from the 1970s through to the 1990s, except for a few years in the early nineties when Kanal 1 (now SVT1) switched to out-of-vision continuity. 399512 CAMERA OPERATOR (FILM, TELEVISION OR VIDEO) Sets up and operates cameras to photograph scenes for film, television or video productions. I'd always assumed that this was a misprint for Donald Macleod, but it doesn't look anything like him (I knew him slightly at the time) and I don't recall a Norman. Emeritus Professor, University of Sussex, author of The BBC: A Peoples History. ), whereas pre-recorded announcements are used most of the time on digital and satellite channels. even the weather girls and continuity announcers. This clip. The BBCs Oral History archive includes interviews with several of radios most celebrated practitioners of the art. BBC approved voice. This comment has been removed by the author. This is 2LO calling the London station of the British Broadcasting Company' (1923) From the Radio Times Annual 1954 Help keep Easton Spectator alive and healthy with your donation today. Kirsty Young on Desert Island Discs, should not be left out of this list, Coyley12 notes. The trio first appeared in 1946 and quickly became immensely popular with viewers. Vivien was a Central TV announcer and newsreader (early 1980s). I find his diction leaves a lot to be desired. Skelly is the urbane co-presenter of Radio 3s mid-morning weekday show. That belonged on the old Third Programme. And now she sometimes presents the afternoon programmes too. Later on the Home Service, Light Programme and Third Programme. Written and read the. In Sweden, a continuity announcer (or programme presenter) is informally known as a halla, which roughly means "helloer". In the United Kingdom, continuity announcers are people who are employed to introduce programmes on radio and television networks, to promote forthcoming programmes on the station, to cross-promote programmes on the broadcaster's other stations where applicable and, sometimes, to provide information relating to the programme just broadcast. From the late 1970s until the mid-1990s, Ernie Anderson was known as "The Voice of ABC-TV" and served as the promotional voice and continuity announcer for the network. Sorry about the deletes, nothing untoward. Age, gender or simply too knowledgable? Spaknapak describes his voice as being as rich as James Earl Joness, while joshthedog notes that his continuity announcements are a joy to listen to, all the more joyful for the outcry that his employment at Radio 4 caused. Omni Television in Toronto has used in-vision continuity announcers for the past 10 years or so. See . The music level is fine but presentersjust speak up!! The range of opinions on Ian Skellys defenestration shows that taste differs hugely. This post concentrates on the Radio 3 continuity team of the late 1970s, simply because I have some small clips of audio from that period. And why did they kick Rob Cowan out? Former jazz drummer and voice of Jazz Record Requests on BBC Radio 3 from 1991 until 2012, Geoffrey Smith now presents his own weekly programme Geoffrey Smiths Jazz on Sundays at midnight, where he shares his passion for jazz from an engaging personal perspective. Jimmy Spankie was a Continuity Announcer, Reporter and Presenter. BBC has no idea how to keep listeners but only wants to encourage new listeners, most of the demographic they want to attract will never tune into R3 anyway. Towards the end of his career Peter Barker used to read the news just before closedown. View more salary by industries here. Continuity announcers may also play music during intervals and give details of programmes later in the day. We are now at the point where Rob Cowan and Sara Mohr-Pietsch are reduced to punting for texts and reading bits from the papers, in between ever-shorter chunks of music. Ian is the better of the two current presenters and yet hes had the push. I see you have his heroic fill-in at the Albet Hall when the piano-lift blew a fuse. As well as a weekly columnist for the Observer, Mariella Frostrup is the presenter of the literary programme Open Book for BBC Radio 4 on Sundays, where she talks to authors and discusses new books. Essential Classics is a complete joke right the way through with GM. Classical radio does much of its business from 9-to-5, while in drive time, US classical listeners are generally more likely to listen to AM news/talk and public radio news (Morning Edition and All Things Considered). How is having i) another woman ii) another Londoner iii) another woman of a certain age going to attract more listeners? This obviously attracted comments of the most ill-advised and ignorant kind; no doubt from idiotic new listeners who had turned onto the new fluffier (read, unprofessional) presentational style of Radio 3. On television continuity generally coincides with a display of the broadcaster's logo or ident. Rhod Sharp, Radio 5 Lives man in the wee small hours. Roger Gascoigne's wink which began during his days as a continuity announcer is part of Kiwi television history. Whilst nothing in life's perfect, I have to admit to not noticing this problem to anything like the extent to which it strikes you; I wonder if either your hearing or the equipment that you use on which to listen, in the car and elsewhere, might have some possible impact upon the nature of your reactions? Jimmy Presented Top Club and the ITV Telethon in 1990 from Dundee. They are high enough for broadcast transmission, thus overcoming the limitations of microwave.-Radio transmission o Use radio wave frequencies to send data directly between . Music Organiser for the World Service until 1985 when he was back at Radio as Presentation Editor. Described as having a dark brown voice by, Joined the BBC as a radio announcer in 1965 in response to an ad in the New Musical Express. In my view, continuity announcers are a species that need to be eliminated before they cause a recession in evolution. The BBC. Whichever way you look at it, its just more of the same. Today, in-vision announcers are used in Southeast Asia, especially in Cambodia and Vietnam. Read about our approach to external linking. Last week we brought you our 10 favourite radio voices. BBC Programme Announcers +49 The best-known faces of the early 50s on British television belonged to the BBC programme announcers: McDonald Hobley , Mary Malcolm and Sylvia Peters. I remember him well and as very sad on the afternon when he gave his final presentation. Most of the continuity announcements are usually recorded for promos for upcoming programs while some are placed before an upcoming program. Nobody is better at capturing the spirit of a listener when reading out their emails, either., Suggested by spaknapak, fuchsoid, joshthedog and diabur, The absence of British Jamaican BBC Radio 4 announcer Neil Nunes or Mr Fruity-Voice (as he is known in my home), explains fuchsoid was called a disgrace by joshthedog. The Radio 3 Timeline. Though the magazine Broadcast Weekly was published in San Francisco, it promoted itself as "The Leading Radio Guide Of The Pacific Coast," even as most of its content was either general to the industry or specific to the Bay Area, especially with its advertisements. An announcer will also: - Research topics for comment and discussion during shows. Bases on studies of radio and television audiences in Australia. But his voice is remarkable., Suggested by albini, MaryL, gjhleval and mcscotty. Attitudes, too, were shifting: there was optimism about, society was changing, Crowe recalls. Comments about the over-reliance on texts could, of course, apply to many programmes these days. A clip of you launching Radio Manchester made it into my BBC90 sound montage. -Business Continuity: the chain of events linking planning to protection . Retired in 1982. The best programme on R3 is Through the Night, which is excellent and is presented in the old way, both informative and understated. I have also been a pre-recorded TV announcer for many more tv channels - the most recent one being CCXTV in 2021. In-vision continuity ended in April 2020 when UTV took on ITV branding and switched to network continuity from London; this was initially a temporary measure as a result of COVID-19, but it was made permanent in November of that year. who is the continuity announcer on yesterday channel. He contrives to be both laddish and cocky, modulating his voice in a way inappropriate to his subject matter, and he is a worse joke-cracker than Skelly. [10][11][12][13] In-vision links were reprised on the channel, during the evening schedule, from 1997 to 2001. Georgia Mann is a brilliant broadcaster some are just radio naturals and she is one of them. This comes from the early days of radio when the main station in Stockholm contacted the other stations around the country by calling "hall, hall". From 2003 until 2016, all in-vision links on Rai 1, Rai 2 and Rai 3 had been pre-recorded by a smaller team of station announcers. James Sleigh Elizabeth Mackenzie was appointed by Grampian Television as one of their three new continuity announcers. Terry Wogan. Playing until her fingers bled: the dedication of the pianist Maria Yudina, What Keir Starmer doesnt understand about the Red Wall, Everything is going to be turned upside down: Michio Kaku on the new world of quantum computing, The troubling truth about gender affirming mastectomies, Blairite nepo babies are the worst of the lot. Neil Nunes is one of Radio 4's freelance continuity announcers. Ms Mann seems to be a pleasant and reasonably knowledgeable presenter certainly but Ian Skelly has that certain je ne sais quoi that raises his presenting to a higher level. Mann/Klein [14][15], From January 2008, the daytime schedule on TV3 launched with two new in-vision continuity announcers, Conor Clear and Andrea Hayes. I think the 'Friends of Radio 3' are worth a mention too.http://www.for3.org/. Nowadays even the golden voice of Patricia Hughes might be regarded as comic, and I cant imagine any listener turning on the radio for the sake of the announcer as well as the music they are presenting. Toronto, Ontario. So sad to hear of the passing Oct 2013 of the great John Holmstrom - he really was my hero and I enjoyed his company during my few Continuity shifts in R3 Con in the late 90s. Suggested by Teapartyintemangalo, salfordexile66, Buddha1969 and Simon Scully-Horner. Specialties: Live TV announcer. To be a good announcer, you will have to save yout voice when you are out of the studio. If there is a breakdown, they make any necessary announcements and often play music for its duration. Many of these voices are almost musical in their own right. pdf; . Suggested by Coyley12, flashbanding and mcscotty. I defy the BBC to find anyone more tasteless and insufferable. Aggers should make this list because he is undoubtedly superb, says reader Buddha1969, and his continual low-level baiting of Geoff Boycott is hilarious, adds salfordexile66. In general, continuity announcers are broadcast live on terrestrial television channels (BBC One, etc. There was some material, though, relating to Los Angeles radio circles and the program listings . Sally Alford, Earle Bailey, Colin Bower, Adrian Cairns, Liz Carse, Linda Lee, Bruce Lewis. Left the staff in 1979 but returned as one of the presenters of, Joined the BBC as a studio manager before becoming announcer/newsreader on Radio 4 and then Radio 3 in 1977. Their ideal was the cool, detached voice of Alvar Lidell, whod come to national prominence reading the wartime news. - Select program content. The station's announcers present the program and introduce its upcoming programs on the station by airing clips from the program or air a promo. Korean Central Television still offers in-vision continuity. She was also a daytime continuity announcer for Thames TV and Anglia TV at about the same time. Biographical information has been compiled from my own notes, internet research. The world would be a better place without them. By the mid-1960s, such was the gathering taste for informality in society at large that programme styles across the board had been exposed as profoundly archaic. This practice only happens on a handful of European TV stations today, with out-of-vision announcements, live ( The BBC way) or pre . Anna Maria-Ashe (mid-1980s), John Benson. I've never noticed this either, and in any case, it's the responsibility of the sound technicians to get the levels right. Born in Kingston, Jamaica he later moved to the island's central parish of Manchester where he was brought up. 10,732. [24] Male announcers returned in the 1970s. Glen Allen, Faye Bamford, Philippa Collins, Paul Daniels, Bruce Hammal, Sian Howell, Lyn Morgan, Kim Marks, Sian Roberts, David Woodward, Alan Christopher, Mari Griffith, Nia Wyn-Jones, This page was last edited on 29 April 2023, at 17:28. In 1983, she had a spell as a BBC TV network announcer. 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