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Southern Television (Defunct)

James, Aline

27th October 2024 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Aline was born in Maryport, Cumberland. She attended Cheltenham Ladies’ College.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Children's Presenters: ITV Network, Presenters: ITV - Southern TV, Presenters: ITV Network

Nissen, Brian

14th October 2024 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Brian was born in Kingston-upon-Thames. His stage career began at the age of 14 in Peter Pan.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: ITV - Southern TV, Announcers: ITV - TVS

Elsmore, Philip

10th October 2024 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Philip was born in Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire. He is a former actor, director and broadcaster.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: ITV - ABC TV, Announcers: ITV - Border TV, Announcers: ITV - Southern TV, Announcers: ITV - Thames TV, Announcers: ITV - Tyne Tees TV, Announcers: ITV - West Country

O’Keeffe, Meryl

9th April 2022 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Meryl was born in Nairobi, Kenya and educated in South Africa. In 1950, she began her radio career in the South African Broadcasting Corporation, based in Johannesburg and Cape Town.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC Network, Announcers: ITV - Southern TV, Presenters: BBC Network (UK)

Edwards, Adrian

3rd April 2022 by The Showreel Team 1 Comment

Adrian was born in Windsor. He was an actor/writer with the Cambridge Footlights and a former maths teacher. He was an in-vision Southern Television continuity announcer (1975 – 1980).

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: ITV - Southern TV

Bance, Greg

8th July 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

By passing the 11-Plus, Greg gained entry to his local grammar school in north London, but education seemed to gain little purchase on his mind, which was focussed on tuning around the short wave, discovering the existence of offshore radio and determination to escape as soon as possible.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: ITV - Anglia TV, Announcers: ITV - ATV (Midlands), Announcers: ITV - Granada TV, Announcers: ITV - Southern TV, Announcers: ITV - Tyne Tees TV, Announcers: ITV - Wales, Presenters: ITV - Anglia TV, Presenters: ITV Regional News

Edwards, Tom

24th June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Tom was born in Norwich. He began his career as a newspaper journalist on the Eastern Evening News and when Anglia TV opened, he worked on in-house commercials and even had a small role in one of their dramas. He compered a weekly live pop show, Beat on the Border, from Border TV in Carlisle and returned years later to the ITV regional company as an announcer/newsreader.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: ITV - Anglia TV, Announcers: ITV - ATV (Midlands), Announcers: ITV - Border TV, Announcers: ITV - Southern TV, Announcers: ITV - Thames TV, Announcers: ITV - Tyne Tees TV, Announcers: ITV - Wales, Announcers: ITV - West, Presenters: BBC East, Presenters: BBC Regional News

King, Martin

22nd June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Martin was a former actor, whose distinctive, rich voice was heard as an announcer, first at Southern TV (1973) and then for 16 years on network BBC Television (1973 – 1989).

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC Network, Announcers: ITV - Southern TV

McGavin, John

10th June 2019 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Also known as John McGavin Gordon. John was an ABC and ATV London announcer in the 1950s, but had an ambition to become an actor and went to drama school.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: ITV - ABC TV, Announcers: ITV - ATV (London), Announcers: ITV - Southern TV

Baker, Trevor

10th October 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Trevor was always affectionately known as Trevor ‘The Weather’ Baker.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: BBC Network Weather, Presenters: ITV - Southern TV, Presenters: ITV - TVS, Presenters: ITV Regional Weather

Young, Muriel

6th October 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Muriel was born in Bishop Middleham, near Sedgefield, Co Durham.  On leaving school, she worked briefly as a librarian.  She attended art college, before deciding to embark on a career as an actress.  She joined a repertory theatre in Henley-on-Thames, where her uncle was directing.  She subsequently performed at the Gateway Theatre, London and the Theatre Royal in Chatham.  Trying to get into the film industry, she did modelling for advertising agencies, including promoting products such as toothpaste.  She also studied to be a dental nurse and used her artistic talents to paint glassware.  Starting out as an actress, she starred with Rex Harrison and Kay Kendall in The Constant Husband (1955) and also featured in The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953) in a segment featuring The Mikado.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: ITV - Associated Rediffusion, Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: ITV - Associated Rediffusion, Presenters: ITV - Granada TV, Presenters: ITV - Southern TV

Brook, Peter

3rd October 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Peter had a very distinctive, deep, rich voice.  He was an announcer at Southern TV (1969 – 1971) and a newsreader for BBC Norwich’s Look East.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC Network, Announcers: ITV - Southern TV, Presenters: BBC East, Presenters: BBC Regional News

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