Robin is an announcer on Film4. He also presents across the UK on Virgin Radio and is a regular presenter for the Napster Music Podcasts.
Loring, Richard
Richard joined the RTÉ TV announcing team in October 2002, working on both television channels. He also worked as a transmission director. In November 2005, Richard took up a transmission editor post with Setanta Sports. He moved to Technicolor in July 2006 and a transmission controller post. By April 2008, he had moved on to become a transmission team leader. In July 2012 he moved to Ericsson in London, taking on a projects team coordinator role, where responsibilities included project management, planning and delivering several channel migrations and additional services as well as testing of new delivery platforms simultaneously across domestic, European and LATAM regions.
In July 2013, Richard moved to Sky as an operations manager within the London-based playout division. In May 2017, he returned to Dublin to work for BT as a team manager within service management.
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.
Owen, Jamie
Jamie was an announcer with BBC Wales TV (early 1990s – 1994), having arrived from BBC Radio 4, where he was a newsreader and announcer. He left BBC Wales continuity to front Wales Today (1994 – January 2018). He also presented a daily morning phone-in programme on BBC Radio Wales. He left BBC Wales in January 2018 to take up a new role with international broadcaster TRT World.
On the announcement of his departure from BBC Wales, Rhodri Talfan Davies, director of BBC Wales, said: “Jamie has helped chronicle every twist and turn in our nation’s story over more than two decades.
“A natural and instinctive broadcaster, he’s made an immense contribution on both radio and television. We all wish him well on his latest international assignment.”
Garmon Rhys, BBC Wales’ head of news, added: “I want to thank Jamie for his huge contribution to BBC Wales over many years.
“A unique broadcaster, he’s been an integral part of BBC Wales Today for over two decades.”
O’Shea, Dominic
Dominic graduated in English from University of Liverpool (1995). He worked at the House of Lords (1996 – 1998) and later at Channel 4 in the Duty Office dealing with viewers’ complaints.
…Cameron, Douglas
Douglas was a BBC TV network announcer (1964 – 1968). He presented BBC Radio 4’s Today (1971 – 1974) and later was a newscaster and broadcaster with Independent Radio News. He was a programme presenter on London’s LBC, and then royal correspondent for IRN. He is also believed to have been an announcer with Scottish TV.
McDowell, Andrea
Scottish voice who served an attachment as a BBC TV network announcer (1989). She was also a BBC World Service TV announcer (1992). She worked briefly as an announcer for ITV Carlton in London (1993). She has also worked as an announcer with BSB, Living TV, BBC Scotland and Channel 5.
…Harkin, Róisín
Róisín joined RTÉ in 1972, working initially as a production assistant before becoming a member of the original team of continuity announcers on RTÉ 2 in 1978. The other announcers at the launch of RTÉ 2 were Bernadette Ní Ghallchóir and Raymond Maxwell.
Mills, John
John was a BBC TV (voice-only) network announcer (1961 – 1965).
Kennedy, Linda
Linda was an Anglia TV announcer (1981).
Barth, Anne-Marie
Anne-Marie currently works as a continuity announcer/director on BBC One Scotland. The role previously also covered BBC Two Scotland but that channel was replaced by the network version of BBC Two, just prior to the launch of the BBC Scotland channel. Although the dedicated Scottish content channel has its own team of announcers, some BBC One Scotland voices can also be heard on the BBC Scotland channel.
Cox, Patricia
Patricia was an in-vision continuity announcer and regular regional news bulletin presenter for ATV in the Midlands (1960s).