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Thames Television (Defunct)

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

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

Scott, Jack

6th October 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Jack was a popular BBC TV forecaster (17th May 1969 – 4th May 1983) and for many years was the senior forecaster.  He also presented forecasts on BBC Radio.  He was a Met Office employee (1941 – 1983), working on RAF stations (1941 – 1968).

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: BBC Regional Weather, Presenters: Channel 4, Presenters: ITV - Thames TV, Presenters: ITV Regional Weather

Martin, Keith

1st September 2018 by The Showreel Team 1 Comment

Keith was born in Sandwich and was a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral.  He trained in catering, then joined the Merchant Navy but illness brought him home and he started work in the advertising department of Granada Television in London.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC Network, Announcers: ITV - Anglia TV, Announcers: ITV - Associated Rediffusion, Announcers: ITV - ATV (Midlands), Announcers: ITV - Border TV, Announcers: ITV - LWT, Announcers: ITV - Southern TV, Announcers: ITV - Thames TV, Announcers: ITV - TVS, Announcers: ITV - Wales, Announcers: ITV - West, Announcers: ITV - Yorkshire TV, Presenters: BBC Regional News

Andrew, John

1st January 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

John’s broadcasting career began at ILR station Radio Tees.  He then joined BBC Newcastle before moving to London as a reporter/presenter on BBC Radio 1’s Newsbeat programme.  He presented Thames News with Andrew Gardener during the 1980s.

John is currently a correspondent/presenter for BBC Network News.  He occasionally presents on the BBC News Channel.  During his career at the BBC, he initially specialised in local government, covering the rise and fall of the poll tax and the Westminster gerrymandering scandal.  He has since covered general news too, including the Harold Shipman murders and the war in Kosovo.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: BBC Network News (UK), Presenters: ITV - Thames TV, Presenters: ITV Regional News

Kennedy, Sheila

1st January 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Sheila Kennedy, who later made a name for herself as an announcer on ABC Television and then Thames, landed her first television job with Westward. Hotfooting it straight from a career as a theatre actress, Sheila was the first female presenter on the new Westward Television, and proved a real hit with viewers. She became very closely associated with Gus Honeybun, and also contributed articles to Westward’s own local television listings magazine, Look Westward.

Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: ITV - ABC TV, Announcers: ITV - Thames TV, Announcers: ITV - Westward

Bates, Simon

1st January 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Simon was born in Birmingham and raised in Suffolk and Shropshire. He is perhaps best known for his long stint as a BBC Radio 1 DJ (1976 – 1993).

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: ITV - ATV (Midlands), Announcers: ITV - Thames TV

Steel, Bill

1st January 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Bill Steel is mainly remembered as Tyne Tees Television’s chief announcer and one of the main presenters of the evening news magazine programme, Northern Life, when it started in 1976.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: ITV - ABC TV, Announcers: ITV - Associated Rediffusion, Announcers: ITV - Border TV, Announcers: ITV - Thames TV, Announcers: ITV - Tyne Tees TV, Presenters: ITV - Tynes Tees TV, Presenters: ITV Regional News

Stuart, Vivien

1st January 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Vivien was born in 1957. Following university, she accepted a place on the Broadcast Journalist Training Scheme in 1975, which led to several years working as a studio manager.

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Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: BBC Network, Announcers: ITV - Anglia TV, Announcers: ITV - Central TV, Announcers: ITV - Thames TV, Presenters: BBC Network Weather, Presenters: ITV - Central TV, Presenters: ITV Regional News

Marshall, Peter

1st January 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Peter was a continuity announcer in various ITV regions: Ulster TV (1967 – 1969); Anglia TV (1970 – 1973); Southern (dates TBC); Thames Television (dates TBC); ATV (Midlands) (dates TBC); HTV West (dates TBC). He was also the national host of the TV Times Awards and Miss United Kingdom on the ITV network (1970s and 1980s). He also presented the BBC’s Come Dancing (1980 – 1983), and regularly reported for ITV’s Wish You Were Here? Marshall originally trained as a teacher, and then an actor with the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, before joining a Bournemouth rep company.

Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: ITV - Anglia TV, Announcers: ITV - ATV (Midlands), Announcers: ITV - Southern TV, Announcers: ITV - Thames TV, Announcers: ITV - UTV, Announcers: ITV - West, Presenters: BBC Network (UK), Presenters: ITV Network

Blackmore, Guy

1st January 2018 by The Showreel Team 2 Comments

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.

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

Fisher, Evadne

1st January 2018 by The Showreel Team Leave a Comment

Evadne is a former Central TV continuity announcer. From Central, she moved on to host the late-night Thames Television strand (mid-1980s – 1991), along with colleagues Patricia Yorston and Victoria Crawford.

After leaving Thames in 1991, Evadne worked as a freelance corporate presenter and voiceover artist. She later turned to teaching – firstly at The Avon Academy, where she subsequently became director of drama. She was also head LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) teacher at Trent College in Long Eaton.

Evadne was a teacher and examiner for LAMDA.

Filed Under: Talent Profiles Tagged With: Announcers: ITV - Central TV, Announcers: ITV - Thames TV

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