Comments on: JOHN EDMUNDS tells you: What it is like to be A TELEVISION ANNOUNCER https://abcatlarge.co.uk/john-edmunds-tells-you-what-it-is-like-to-be-a-television-announcer/ ABC, your weekend TV in the North and Midlands 1956-1968 Sun, 20 Nov 2022 11:25:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Vaughan Beardsley https://abcatlarge.co.uk/john-edmunds-tells-you-what-it-is-like-to-be-a-television-announcer/#comment-85 Sun, 20 Nov 2022 11:25:43 +0000 http://abcatlarge.co.uk/?p=1915#comment-85 John Edmunds read the news stylishly on BBC TV between 1967 and 1973, as a main newsreader and sometimes more occasionally. He combined this with varied duties at the BBC on television and radio. He returned briefly to present news programmes during the 1974 October General Election Campaign and popped up fleetingly again to read the news in 1979. During an interval from his university department duties in Wales, he again returned as a regular newsreader for the BBC between Autumn 1980 until June 1981, delighting his many fans, I’m sure. Not long after, to many, BBC News presentation changed forever as many of the trusted old guard of newsreaders were gradually ousted and, to some, news presentation lost cherished authority over time.

]]> By: David Heathcote https://abcatlarge.co.uk/john-edmunds-tells-you-what-it-is-like-to-be-a-television-announcer/#comment-55 Thu, 05 Nov 2020 19:39:04 +0000 http://abcatlarge.co.uk/?p=1915#comment-55 In reply to Alan Keeling.

“grey haired”?? I think you mean “ash blond”! ;-D

]]> By: Alan Keeling https://abcatlarge.co.uk/john-edmunds-tells-you-what-it-is-like-to-be-a-television-announcer/#comment-54 Thu, 05 Nov 2020 15:43:21 +0000 http://abcatlarge.co.uk/?p=1915#comment-54 During the late 70’s, a grey haired John Edmunds used to sometimes present the main news on BBC1 as good as he ever was when he was an ABC continuity announcer.

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