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 pre-recorded links.
Adam On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 2:21 PM Mark Jeffries <spotligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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, 2020, 7:59 AM Tom Wolper <twol...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 say. >> >> -- >> 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 tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiGPdsRGOrBKPRLrW9f4K3YTJmbO1F65YaBeYO8Cog9sxg%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiGPdsRGOrBKPRLrW9f4K3YTJmbO1F65YaBeYO8Cog9sxg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > 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 tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJ_uKi-aJws%2B7zXq9SxhcBjWnoELvt-v3FUKJ27gon%3D0F-JfJA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJ_uKi-aJws%2B7zXq9SxhcBjWnoELvt-v3FUKJ27gon%3D0F-JfJA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGBASpOBRn6CAn_VcwqKNu%2B0eB8VduoU3-OPX_ukShfddA%40mail.gmail.com.
