Looking through Tyne Tees clips on youtube has reminded me of something we don't see on BBC or ITV nowadays, mainly due to having kids tv channels. Cartoon Time.
Channel 5 was airing the odd standalone Disney cartoon up until fairly recently. We had a discussion on here I remember because something was edited out of it.
Sorry to bring this thread up again, but here's something you never see now. A weather warning given during a continuity announcement. I recall it happened a couple of times on BBC1 Scotland in the late 1980s. There would be a slide reading "weather warning", and the CA would then read out the weather warning, and when it was valid until.
Tony Currie could correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think STV ever done this. Certainly, I never saw STV doing it.
Looking through Tyne Tees clips on youtube has reminded me of something we don't see on BBC or ITV nowadays, mainly due to having kids tv channels. Cartoon Time.
Channel 5 was airing the odd standalone Disney cartoon up until fairly recently. We had a discussion on here I remember because something was edited out of it.
Looking at old tv listings that are posted to Twitter it still surprises me that it was not unusual for a Bugs Bunny cartoon to be inserted into evening schedule on either main to channel in the evening. I remember them clearly but seems so long ago! To be honest I'm sure very few people turned off/over d.uring that time. So actually rating well!
For a long time a cartoon was used as a filler in the South East when the rest of the country had regional news. There was an assumption that anything of interest in those areas would be covered by the national bulletin.
Speaking of news, do CA's read out regional news bulletins these days?
I'm guessing none of the regions do, as they all have pre-recorded continuity announcements these days, and the short 1'00"-1'15" daytime opts which would have provided an opportunity for a 'read only' bulletin have gone. (In the BBC all the regions are in England apart from the Channel Islands)
The Nations (i.e. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) still have live continuity and can run their own schedules, so they could insert a short regional news update into their output.
However in either case these days there would be no real reason to do it out-of-vision and it would look terribly dated if you did.
I guess the original question could be read both ways - and cover whether Continuity Announcers also appeared as in-vision news readers on news bulletins OR whether there were still Continuity Announcer voiced news updates as part of their normal CA duties.
I think I remember an occasion in the not-too-distant past where due to an operational issue (the newsreader's alarm clock didn't go off), a continuity announcer (possibly marksi) presented the 0630 Breakfast opt out-of-vision over a Newsline slate.
Sorry to bring this thread up again, but here's something you never see now. A weather warning given during a continuity announcement. I recall it happened a couple of times on BBC1 Scotland in the late 1980s. There would be a slide reading "weather warning", and the CA would then read out the weather warning, and when it was valid until.
Tony Currie could correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think STV ever done this. Certainly, I never saw STV doing it.
Not only did we do it at STV but I still have the slides we used. (Actually I also have the BBC slides, too....)