The “Voice of Central” began his announcing career c. 1986 with a distinctive, authoritative yet upbeat style. Always out-of-vision, Ted’s announcements became synonymous with the station and an integral part of the on-screen brand. His voice could also be heard on “Announcements for Teachers” on ITV Schools (before it moved to Channel 4).
Ted was later part of the announcing team at Channel 5 (early-2003 – TBC).
Marquis, Mary
Mary is best known as the long-serving presenter of various regional news magazine programmes on BBC Scotland. She was also a familiar face on ITV screens as a continuity announcer on Border TV.
Neville, Daphne
Daphne is a former Crossroads actress and continuity announcer for Border Television and Grampian Television (1970s/early 1980s). Daphne also worked for Central TV, HTV West and BBC Radio 4.
De Ste Criox, Gordon
Gordon joined Channel Television in 1972 as an in-vision announcer and newsreader. He went on to edit the station’s listings magazine The Channel TV Times and Channel Text, the one-hundred-page Teletext magazine for the Channel Islands. Gordon has also been head of Creative Channel, Channel Television’s commercial and corporate production company, and director of sales. He’s on the station’s board of directors.
Jason, John
John was a Grampian Television in-vision announcer in the 1980s. He also popped up on other ITV stations as an announcer over the years, including time with TVS as an out-of-vision announcer (late-1980s – early 1990s).
Morton, Jean
Jean was an ATV (Midlands) continuity announcer from the launch of the station.
…Fothergill, Phil
Phil was an Anglia Television announcer (1989). He moved from the announcer’s chair to a behind-the-scenes role, as a producer in the promotions department. He went on to work at The Family Channel and, in 1995, he became promotions manager at the popular QVC channel.
Roberts, Karen
Karen is a former Border Television continuity announcer.
Robbie, Sue
Sue was a Granada Television in-vision continuity announcer in the late-1970s and early 1980s. She went on to present a series of networked shows for the company, including Connections, First Post and TX.
Matheson, Kate
Kate was born in 1936, as Audrey Craig-Brown, in Newton Mearns, a suburb of Glasgow. She took various parts in repertory in theatres in both England and Scotland, sometimes alongside the actor/announcer Graham Roberts, whom she married in 1959.
…Hobson, Derek
Derek was an ATV in-vision continuity announcer who hit the big time as the presenter of ATV’s successful New Faces talent contest (1973 – 1978). This was the role for which he is perhaps best known, but he also hosted several other ITV gameshows over the years, including That’s My Dog for TSW. Derek also presented ATV’s regional news programme, ATV Today.
Derek is also believed to have announced on LWT (TBC)
Thompsett, Glen
Glen was a TVS announcer who later joined LWT just as in-vision announcing was being phased out in the early 1980s. Glen remained with LWT until October 2002. From 2002 to 2004, he was a freelance announcer at ITV 1. He has also presented for Meridian News in the south east, Sky Television, and on several satellite travel and shopping channels.
Glen has worked at a number of radio stations: he was a member of the launch team at Severn Sound in Gloucester in 1980; GWR in Wiltshire; Mercia Sound in Coventry; host of the breakfast show on Kent’s Invicta FM during the late-1980s and early 1990s, gaining some of the highest audience figures in the station’s history.
Glen runs his own audio production studio in Kent and produces work for a variety of independent companies and corporate clients.