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In most cases, this is the short announcement between programs that identifies the network. Like a lot of this kind of tropes, it originated in radio, making this this trope Older Than Television. There is another kind of continuity announcement. If something goes wrong in the transmission of a program, the network will usually have a message ready, such as "Temporary Fault" or "Program Change". Or "We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties, please stand by" or the ever-popular Test Pattern. In many European countries, presenters known as "continuity announcers" or "station hosts" were employed by TV stations to appear on camera to identify the station and often introduce the programme schedule. This practice only happens on a handful of European TV stations today, with out-of-vision announcements, live (The BBC way), or pre-recorded, the main order of the day. Shows have been known to parody the latter type of announcement in scenes considered too violent, or someone actually attacking the cameraman or other production staff. Continuity announcers also existed in North America in The '50s, mainly due to technical limitations—cuing up and playing short snippets of audio on reel-to-reel tape was time-consuming and fraught with error. So why hire two technicians to run the machines when you could hire one announcer to do it all live? Even after the "cart" became ubiquitous, the major networks still kept a live announcer on duty during the evening hours in case a breaking news bulletin needed to be passed on. (Before roughly 1970 television cameras contained temperamental tubes which had to be warmed up for 30 minutes before the cameras could be used. This is why the first bulletins of the Kennedy assassination were audio clips accompanied by a "breaking news" slide.) Nowadays, when the news department is operating 24 hours a day 7 days a week, and can be on air with a moment's notice, live continuity announcers are far less common. Sub-Trope to Station Ident, an often Enforced Trope in which stations and networks identify themselves at the beginning of a show or feature. Might be included in a Signing-Off Catchphrase, a certain phrase said at the end of every work/episode in a series; or in a Network Sign Off, a TV channel or network with a set schedule stops broadcasting for the day. |
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Gus Honeybun's Magic Birthdays: Gus fits his segments into these, often disappearing in an incredible hurry if the birthdays had over-run. | |
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Spitting Image: The continuity announcer is a regular character who always makes sure to add a "we here on ITV" whenever making some commentary on the bizarre events going on. He appears in Series 1 Episode 1, during the credits; in Series 1, Episode 11, to inform the viewers that the show has fallen foul of technical difficulties; and in Series 3, Episode 9 to wish the Queen a happy birthday. | |
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ITV in the Face: Just in case the title isn't enough, Matthew Harris reminds everyone that "ITV is brought to you by Granada" in "It's Glam Up North". | |
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Dead Ringers : A regular feature is parodying of continuity announcements from all UK TV channels; as much a send-up of the ethos of each channel (e.g., ITV with trashy reality shows, Channel 4's obsession with property programmes) than its presentation style. The radio version also sent up Radio 4's continuity announcers, in particular, how they come up with hilariously tenuous links between the programmes preceding and following them, often based on a pun. |
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Reproduction: Since "Circus of Death" is set during an episode of Hawaii Five-O, the re-arranged version in the single's B-side starts with a continuity announcement that mentions the aforementioned show. | |
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Doctor Who: The May 2011 rerun of "The Hand of Fear" includes an In Memoriam made by the channel's continuity announcer that is dedicated to actress Elisabeth Sladen, who gives life to Sarah Jane Smith. The 2017 version of "Shada" has a period-accurate one at the beginning of the serial, complete with the announcer apologising for broadcasting the story later than planned. |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: Spoofing continuity announcements are a regular element. "Now on BBC television, a choice of viewing. On BBC 2—a discussion on censorship between Derek Hart, the Bishop of Woolwich, and a nude man. And on BBC 1— me telling you this." | |
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Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV: It spoofs the typical in-vision continuity announcer who still prevailed on UK TV at the time, played by Susie Blake. | |
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John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme: One of the 'Since You Asked Me' segments comes after the credits and describes the time the storyteller met a hideous, wizened old fortune teller who said... | |
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