Su was a long-serving ATV (Midlands) and Central TV in-vision continuity announcer. She went on to become a regular regional weather presenter on ITV Central and ITV Wales. She also freelanced as an out-of-vision announcer for Central after it became part of the Carlton group (late-1990s – 2001. Su also did relief announcing on Southern Television in the 1970s.
Farish, Jenny
Jenny was heard on radio stations throughout Scotland during the 1980s as part of the AA Roadwatch team, which supplied travel news to Scottish radio stations. Jenny did some in-vision continuity for Border Television for a few years from 1989 before leaving to join West Sound Radio in Ayr. She was also a presenter for Real Radio in Scotland.
Sweeney, Veronica
Veronica was a an RTÉ TV continuity announcer in the early 1970s.
Gray, Sharon
Sharon was a freelance announcer for LWT (1970s). She was also an announcer for Southern TV (1980 – TBC) and then Anglia (1983 – TBC).
White, Eoin
Eoin was a continuity announcer on RTÉ 2 in the early 1980s, before moving to RTÉ One. He remained in a TV announcing role until the late-1980s/early 1990s. He was also an actor.
Denning, Chris
Chris was a BBC Two network announcer in the mid-1960s.
Tompkins, Peter
Also known as Peter James for a brief spell. Peter was one of the main announcers for ITV’s Nighttime service from 1997. He was also a Carlton Television (London) announcer (January 2000 – October 2002). Peter left Carlton in 2002.
Mills, Ric
Ric is a freelance announcer with Channel 4 (c. 2000 – present). He has worked full-time with E4 since its launch.
Cunningham, Lynn
Lynn was a Grampian Television in-vision continuity announcer (1971 – 1979). Her son, Paul, recalls that she first applied for the job after she was dared to by her husband. Sadly, she died in 1982 at the age of 44.
Lawrence, Sally
Sally was a BBC TV network announcer (1992 – TBC). Later, she moved to a similar role at Channel 4.
Symon, Jim
Jim is a well-known Scottish radio and television broadcaster. He was an in-vision announcer for Scottish Television (1983 – TBC). He later freelanced as an out-of-vision announcer for both Scottish TV and Grampian TV (dates TBC). He combined this work with the position of transmission controller for SMG’s (Scottish Media Group) television division – a post which he left in 2000.
Jim’s voice is well known to viewers across the UK as he’s voiced several television advertisements. He was also chosen to be the voice of a new, talking version of the ever-popular Action Man toy.
Since leaving the core staff at SMG, Jim has returned to radio. He has presented the late-night music programme on Westsound Radio based in Ayr; he later presented on radio station Clyde 2.
He still occasionally presented for Scottish and Grampian TV.
Ashley, Philip
Former Southern Television announcer.