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.
Patterson, Pamela
Pamela is a former BBC Scotland TV announcer.
Small, Mary
Mary was a BBC TV network announcer (1988).
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.
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).
Chapman, Lindsey
Lindsey is a continuity announcer on network BBC One and BBC Two. She also presents factual, arts and sports programming across TV and radio.
…Ashe, John
John was a TV newsreader with BBC Northern Ireland in the 1980s, presenting short bulletins mainly, including news summaries within Scene Around Six. He switched to a continuity announcer/director role in the early 1990s.
John retired from the BBC in November 2006. His last on air announcement was on BBC Two Northern Ireland at 12.20am on 1st November 2006.
Bassett-Roberts, Sian
Since the early 1990s, Sian has freelanced as a BBC Radio Wales and S4C announcer. She also had a stint as a BBC Wales TV continuity director/announcer (dates TBC). Additionally, she is a TV producer/director. She currently combines her TV background, experience in tourism and love of cooking to promote Welsh and international cuisine.
Having produced a series of Coginio Welsh cooking DVDs, she has since rebranded as Loving Welsh Food. The group runs food and drink safaris, tasting tours, welsh cooking workshops and food demos/presentations promoting Welsh and International Cuisine.
Specialisms: directing, producing, voiceover artist, media training, food, cooking, tourism.
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.
Duignan, Barbara
Barbara was an RTÉ continuity announcer in the early 1970s.