Age vs Environment = Disillusionment
That is all.

whose voice was created purely to say the word "cheridee".

What annoys me is that frequently they don't actually say what's coming on now - they tell you what's coming on at 10.20 next Tuesday on another channel.

Er, would you mind doing the job you're f*cking paid for?

"Did you get the things we need?"

"Even better!"

they are paid for telling us what's coming on at 10.20 next Tuesday on another channel. I doubt they would have the nous to successfully ad-lib.

and when I do I have to admit that the intonation of a continuity announcer would be completely off my radar.

they were men you could trust; men of gravitas whose sonorous tones would proclaim the imminence of Basil Brush, Doctor Who and The Generation Game.

Nowadays they sound like a load of wankers who'd never be given a job doing anything else.

"Now on.... Bibbacy One it's time to check in one.... More time to fall.... Tit hours."

is when they show a trailer for a programme which is to be shown in an hour, then the continuity announcer tells you exactly the same thing. This is even worse when they trail a programme which is coming on next - and even then, the announcer does the same thing! Cue me shouting "YES, WE KNOW!"

is when they break into the closing titles a second after a programme is finished. When I've enjoyed a programme I'd like a minute to wallow in the appreciation of it, happy enough with the soundtrack and maybe to pick a couple of names out of the titles. Instead they shrink the screen so you can't read anything - an enormous act of disrespect towards those who have helped to make the programme - and force us to listen to a gabbling idiot enthuse about another show in which I have no interest.

There have been a couple of times when I've watched some stunning TV and the mood has been immediately shattered by this act of desecration. I want to see somebody punished - tied up in a chair with headphones on and forced to listen to these inanities for hours at a stretch.

The Caribbean chap on R4 with the dark cacao tones; his face doesn't fit his voice.

this evening was wearing jeans(with a belt), I mean where's the dinner jacket and black tie, The country's gone to the dogs (just because I got 25 out of 25 for the citizenship test there's no need to hound me).

Oh and another one said there was a lot of weather about.

Alan 'Deadly' Dedicoat is the meister of the art imho. Supremely unflappable.

"Doctor Who investigates dangerous experiments with a human skull. Twelve million years old. Doctor Who - Next Saturday at ten past six."

They are probably sobbing quietly only seconds after each announcement, wondering to themselves how they can possibly lower themselves any further, shaming that Oxbridge degree with their inanities. They then likely compose themselves, clear their throats and reflect on how lucky they are to have been employed. Father wouldn't have them in the firm, after all, and Mummy's little 'Red Cross parcels' only stretch so far.

I'd rather have the audio of a bad continuity announcer than this trend of recent years for the BBC to compromise the integrity of its own dramatic creations by shrinking the closing credits down to a quarter of the size of the screen as soon as the final scene of, say, Doctor Who has played out, run a trailer for the next programme alongside, and burble about Graham Norton, or Strictly, or the Lottery coming next.

Brief piece by two of the 'culprits' ( er, continuity announcers ). Interesting to note that their studio is probably better equipped than most BBC local radio stations.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8430473.stm

Here are the BBC 1 and 2 announcers :

Delroy Haynes, Matthew Jackson, Dean Lydiate, Kath Melandri, Duncan Newmarch, Peter Offer, David Vickery, Phil Vowels, Ashleigh Whitfield, Rebecca Wright

( Phil Vowels? )

While I sympathise with job losses, you have to wonder why the BBC needs 10 of them. And I still don't know who the really annoying 'charidee' one is.