Talk:Continuity (broadcasting)/Archives/2012

British vs American TV
I can't seem to fnd anything on the subject, but it seems to me thier is a big difference between U.S and Brittish Television in this field. The main difference being that in America Continuity Announcers and anouncements are rather rare, and when they do appear are rather brief compared to the ones on BBC. For instance over the closing credits to a show on the WB you might hear "Hi this is Sophia Bush stay tuned for a new One Tree Hill" while in the UK you'd hear the anouncer talk for a bit about the show. Deathawk 20:42, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Agreed. We need to list other examples of continuity, such as the example that Deathawk provided above. The article lists only examples of continuity in the UK and Canada, with only a brief link to the article about bumper music for the States. However, on one of my tapes ABC and the local affiliate both have long announcements over the credits of Silkwood (it was 1987, so go figure). Coincidentally, the British web page TV Ark even has another example (RealMedia, 1.3 MB) from WTXF in Philadelpia (also from the 80s) over the credits of Star Search. What Britain is (and was) now, was us back in the day. Mattderojas 21:51, 26 May 2006 (UTC)


 * The usual U.S. television terminology would be "booth announcer", although that job also included in-program announcements for locally-produced shows. By the late 1980s, "continuity" had become restricted to voice-over announcements during the closing credits of a program, and when NBC 2000 came along, most of those opportunities disappeared as well.  Public television still does a great deal of this sort of announcement, but most stations both public and commercial now pre-record non-episode-specific announcements appropriate to their schedule.  Many group owners use the same freelance voice talent for all their stations' announcements, as an element of branding.  121a0012 03:53, 31 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Seems like right now NBC is doing something akin to continuity during primetime, using stars from their primetime shows to record bumps re "up next is ____, followed by ____" and some sort of show-related quip. - Keith D. Tyler &para; 02:18, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

"In a moment it's the News, while just starting on BBC2 is the first in a new series of 'Owl Watching for Beginners'" I'd just like to send out my heartfelt love for whoever wrote that sentence! :D 87.112.18.177 19:37, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Announcers in other nations
I have added a section on continuity announcing in Ireland. Would anyone like to contribute sections on this subject in other countries? And is it possible to make a shorter translation of the excellent Swedish article on this subject available for the English page? Cheers. Col2006ie (talk) 23:33, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Separate article for Continuity announcers in the UK?
I feel that a standalone article on the above subject could be created to expand on the points raised in the UK-related subjects on the current page, such as the evolution of announcing, the cessation of in-vision announcers across the ITV companies and the closure of continuity facilities by company. What do other users think?Col2006ie (talk) 20:22, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

How is geography meaningful?
When did "{Limitedgeographicscope}" get added here? Is the complaint still valid? How much more of a worldview can be expected?

How did broadcasting styles originate? After a new broadcaster ordered their equipment, did they want to emulate the style of major broadcasters like BBC, US networks, etc? When a new broadcaster started in a new place, did they have an affiliation with, or hire a consultant or principle from one of the majors?

The geographic scope of this article then should be, what continuity tradition those broadcasters started with, followed by how they changed as their management changed, rather than just a list of current styles in different places. The "History of Broadcasting" type articles are mostly about equipment, not style or methodology. What would be the higher-level article to this article? 71.191.171.250 (talk) 05:48, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

In-vision continuity to cover synchronisation locking with network
A very interesting post here on how the main purpose of in-vision continuity (and/or continuity slides and clocks) up until the 1970s and 1980s (which brought the first digital framestores from eg Quantel (1975) that could be used to buffer the signals) was to allow frame synchronisation of local output to network. Cameras could cope with a slight synchronisation timing drift needed to achieve this, whereas video tape machines couldn't.

I wonder if we have a section presenting this original technical purpose of continuity announcements? Jheald (talk) 17:28, 12 September 2011 (UTC)