John was an announcer with ABC Television and ATV London. He also worked as a network announcer with BBC TV (1969 – 1974) and voiced BBC TV presentation trails (1972 – 1990).
Phillips, Ian
Ian served an attachment as a BBC TV network announcer (1987). He returned to BBC Radio Devon as a general producer.
Wheal, David
David was a BBC TV network announcer (1979 – 1982, 1984 – 1989). He appeared in-vision for the TV Choice slot in BBC TV’s Breakfast Time (1983 – 1984).
Chapman, Mark
Mark was a network announcer on BBC One and BBC Two (1997 – 2001). He then moved to BBC Radio 1, covering sport news for the Breakfast Show. Beyond that, he worked as a sports presenter on BBC Radio 5 Live and on BBC TV, for football coverage mostly.
Escolme, John
John obtained a BA (Hons) in communication, cultural studies and public media from the University of Leeds.
…Armstrong, Jack
Jack was a BBC TV national weather forecaster (1956 – 1965). He worked at the Met Office for 36 years (1947 – 1983). He died in 1984.
Brand, John
John was a BBC TV network announcer in the early 1970s.
Nichols, Tim
Tim was a BBC TV network announcer for 24 years (1965 – 1970 and 1972 – 1990). He was a relief newsreader on News Review for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Weekend News (April 1971 – October 1971).
…Shoesmith, Peter
Peter was an actor (1958 – 1966) and then a newsreader at TWW (Bristol) and Tyne Tees TV in Newcastle. He was a BBC TV network announcer (1969).
…James, Mark
Mark joined BBC Wales TV Presentation from Swansea Sound radio (1989). He left the continuity director/announcer role in the mid-1990s to direct news, and would later concentrate on motorsports and front world rallying programmes for BBC network.
Blackmore, Guy
Australian-born former pirate radio disc jockey (known as Jim Gordon, or Jumbo Jimmy Gordon during his time on Radio Caroline North), who went on to become an in-vision continuity announcer for Thames Television, a relief announcer at Southern TV and also a voice-only announcer on the BBC.
Sadly, Guy died of lung cancer in 2000.
Mangold, Tom
Tom worked in BBC TV News and Current Affairs since 1964, working initially as a war reporter and later as an investigative journalist, on programmes such as Panorama. He is an international best-selling author and an award-winning travel writer.
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