Re: [TV orNotTV] Staff announcers?

2020-07-14 Thread Adam Bowie
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 10:21 PM Mark Jeffries wrote: > Are ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5's continuity announcers still live in key > time slots? I know that ITV's announcers are all in London now and record > announcements for ITV regional programming (which nowadays is almost all > news

Re: [TV orNotTV] Staff announcers?

2020-07-13 Thread Mark Jeffries
Are ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5's continuity announcers still live in key time slots? I know that ITV's announcers are all in London now and record announcements for ITV regional programming (which nowadays is almost all news bulletins). Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor

Re: [TV orNotTV] Staff announcers?

2020-07-13 Thread Jim Ellwanger
> On Jul 13, 2020, at 6:51 AM, Joe Hass wrote: > > VO? No. Someone in full makeup to go on-camera extremely quickly? Yes. And back when I worked in live closed captioning in the late 1990s, NBC paid to have a live captioner on standby, monitoring NBC's main network feed, 7 days a week from

Re: [TV orNotTV] Staff announcers?

2020-07-13 Thread Joe Hass
VO? No. Someone in full makeup to go on-camera extremely quickly? Yes. On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 7:46 AM daniel anderson < danielanderson2...@gmail.com> wrote: > I do wonder if networks still use live announcers for like when there is a > bulletin, etc.? > > -- > You received this message because

Re: [TV orNotTV] Staff announcers?

2020-07-13 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
The last (few) news cut-ins I've seen didn't have any intervening VOs, except for "This is a (so-and-so) Special Report" over a graphic before dissolving to the applicable anchor... B Tom Wolper, to daniel anderson, today (7/13): > I do wonder if networks still use live announcers for like

Re: [TV orNotTV] Staff announcers?

2020-07-13 Thread Adam Bowie
Continuity announcers are still alive and well at the BBC in the UK! Indeed each UK *nation *gets its own announcer. So you hear someone different in Scotland to England - in part because there are slight regional variations in programming. And they really are there all the time - not just

Re: [TV orNotTV] Staff announcers?

2020-07-13 Thread Mark Jeffries
The only place with what you might call live "booth announcers" are the C-SPAN channels, who have someone live during live events, sometimes on camera, sometimes not, all vying to be one of John Oliver's Most Patient People on Television every time they take viewer phone calls. On Mon, Jul 13,

Re: [TV orNotTV] Staff announcers?

2020-07-13 Thread Tom Wolper
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 8:46 AM daniel anderson < danielanderson2...@gmail.com> wrote: > I do wonder if networks still use live announcers for like when there is a > bulletin, etc.? > I'm sure they have a prerecorded "we're interrupting this program to take you to our newsroom" or whatever they

[TV orNotTV] Staff announcers?

2020-07-13 Thread daniel anderson
I do wonder if networks still use live announcers for like when there is a bulletin, etc.? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to