The Continuity Booth
ITV 1 - Carlton London
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Freelance ITV 1 announcer from October 2002. Certainly one of the great television voices of all time, with warmth and reassurance.
David's broadcasting career started in the 1960s at Radio 390 where he presented a country music programme called 'Country Style'.
He was a BBC TV voice only announcer for 25 years - from 1969 to 1972 (freelance) and from 1972 to 1994 (staff). He also provided voice-overs on BBC TV's 'Points Of View' in 1987 and was a BBC Radio 2 presenter from 1976, including 'Country Club' with Wally Whyton. David was also a BBC World Service TV announcer in 1992.
Since 1995, he has been heard on ITV as a relief announcer for Carlton TV in London and from October 2002 joined the national ITV 1 announcing team as a freelancer covering overnight shifts. David is also one of the main announcers on the satellite History Channel in the UK, along with Charles Nove and David Miles.
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Graham was an announcer with BSB in 1990 and later Carlton in London. He was the senior continuity announcer when national ITV 1 continuity was introduced from October 28 2002.
In addition to continuity announcing, Graham has worked as a presenter and voice-over artist; his clients include BBC TV, Ford Motor Company, Royal and SunAlliance and Braun. He has fronted travel bulletins for Carlton and LWT and presented shows on Essex local radio.
From his studio he voices commercials, promotions and imaging for stations in the UK, America, Spain, Dubai and Malta. For more information, visit Graham's website (link below).
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Mike spent the first four years of his career at BBC Radios WM and Shropshire, and he was originally a continuity announcer for Central. He freelanced there from April 1993 to June 1997. In January 1994, he moved south to work for SSVC (now BFBS) Forces Television, as a self-op announcer and transmission controller.
Mike says: "Having moved south I contacted Carlton and freelanced as an announcer for them from March 1994 until March 1997 then jumped across to the other side of the glass to become a transmission controller for ITV 1 working for LNN. I'd actually started as a transmission controller on a freelance basis in December 1996, then became a staff member in May 1997. To round things up, I stayed with LNN until October 2002. In that time I tried unsuccessfully to move into the newsroom as a director, and my frustration eventually led to finding an opening as a freelance director at ITN alongside my full time job! I eventually left LNN a week before the rebrand to ITV 1 took place and Carlton/LWT disappeared forever. I'm currently on contract to the BBC as a news director, and at the moment I'm working as a director on BBC World."
Adrian was a continuity announcer at BBC Wales for a short period in the first half of 1991 before moving to Network Presentation in London. He remained there until 1993 when he moved to Carlton for six months, then Anglia for another six, before returning to Network BBC One and BBC Two in 1994.
Adrian left to join BBC World in spring 1995. For a while he freelanced as an announcer at LWT in 1995 and 1996; around the same time he was also the pre-recorded voice of the Channel 4 'Schools' strand.
As well as being the voice of BBC World (albeit pre-recorded), Adrian also worked there as a news presenter. Adrian left the BBC in autumn 2004 to take up a position with CNN.
TVS announcer in the early-1990s and then a Carlton Television (London) announcer from 1993 to 2003. Fiona was also the voice of cable channel Carlton Cinema. 
Central Television and Thames Television announcer in the 1980s. Later, Hilary worked for Carlton Television, London, as an announcer from 1994 until 5 February 1997. Hilary now lives in France. 
Started his television career as a cameraman and moved into continuity with TVS before joining Thames Television as a continuity announcer in the 1980s. He stayed until Carlton took over and was the only member of the Thames continuity team to move to the new station when it took over on January 1 1993. Mark was Carlton's senior announcer until October 2002 when the station's London identity was dropped. However, Mark continues to present weekend bulletins for Central News South - a role he has been performing since 1991. He has also presented the main early evening news programme during the week.
Mark spoke to TTVRP in January 2006: "Over the past three-and-a half-years I have had the opportunity of working on a number of projects at Central News. I was Assistant Producer on a few outside broadcasts including Central's pan-regional 'Britain On The Move' campaign and the Fairford Royal International Air Tattoo. More recently while our studio was being redesigned for the ITV rebranding, we took Central News outside and presented the programme from five of the region's hospitals. I helped produce this and was also the roving reporter each night taking on a variety of tasks, from sampling the hospital Christmas dinners to being a cleaner for the day and hospital porter. My skills were also put to the test one night when due to sickness with one of our directors, I ended up directing the outside broadcast. It was a great week and well received by the viewers. That together with some radio presenting and voice-over work, I have been a busy man since leaving Carlton."
Carlton Television London announcer from January 2000 until 2002. Erica also announced at Channel 4, 1988 - 1992, The Family Channel, 1993 - 1996 and The Disney Channel from 1997 - present.Scottish voice who got an attachment as a BBC Network announcer in 1989. BBC World Service TV announcer, 1992. Worked briefly in 1993 as an announcer for ITV Carlton in London. She has also worked as an announcer with BSB, Living TV and BBC Scotland.
Andrea is currently an announcer with Five.
Previously an in-vision announcer with Granada in Manchester, John announced for Carlton Television, London, from May 2000 to October 2002. He is now studying to be a journalist.(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 from January 2000 until October 2002. Peter left Carlton in 2002.Experienced television announcer and voice-over artist who was one of the initial presenters of 'Late Night Late' on TVS. Since then, David has worked as an announcer on many stations, including Meridian, LWT and Carlton TV London (in January 2000), and he also made the first, opening continuity announcements on both Channel Five and Carlton Select.
A trained actor with BA Honours degree in film and drama, David spent two years in theatre before joining Channel 4 as a presentation announcer. He currently announces for the Discovery Channel and the Biography Channel, and continues with voice-over and on-air promotion work for a wide range of broadcast and corporate clients, including Channel 4 and More4.
Carlton Television, London, announcer for ITV's Nighttime service from 1997.
