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Published 7 November 2022
Never mind how or what we’ll be watching in the year 2000: it’s time for TV to ditch cliché and resist Americanisation
Published 4 March 2022
Photographs and short biographies of fifty BBC announcers and news-readers
Published 12 November 2021
Ray Moore gets a job at Granada, and at Tyne Tees, parlays that into a job at ATV and then makes the jump to the BBC
Published 15 February 2021
A camera test exposes the behind-the-scenes choices announcers have to make in 1951
Published 20 January 2021
London Weekend’s Alec Taylor would like to try new things in 1975
Published 13 January 2021
A change in policy at A-R and ATV as they bring their announcers into view
Published 24 December 2020
Over on our ATV site, meet the three announcers who will be working over Christmas in 1974
Published 17 October 2018
Meet Muriel Young and Daphne Anderson, announcers for Associated-Rediffusion and ABC (aka ATV) in 1955
Published 19 April 2018
Meet ATV’s Shaw Taylor, former actor, continuity announcer and now host of ‘Pencil and Paper’ in 1962
Published 13 February 2018
Fluffing of foreign words leads KDKA to train announcers for the first time in 1922
Published 2 October 2017
TWW’s Bruce Lewis describes the preparation that goes into an evening of continuity announcing in 1966
Published 20 June 2017
What jobs are available in television presentation in 1965?
Published 12 December 2016
BBC announcer John Snagge tries to define what makes a BBC announcer
Published 6 October 2016
How the job of announcing on the BBC changed when war broke out
Published 17 June 2015
A 1954 interview with the BBC Television Service relief announcer Noëlle Middleton
Published 20 October 2014
The six people who kept Londoners and Midlanders in the picture in 1963
Published 7 January 2014
Could the last major outpost of in-vision continuity in the UK lead to a general rebirth of the style, asks Colm O’Rourke
Published 27 September 2010
Colm O’Rourke assesses the renaissance of in-vision continuity on UTV
Published 1 July 2001
David Hastings on getting your point over to the viewer