History Main / ContinuityAnnouncement

SubTrope to StationIdent, an often EnforcedTrope in which stations and networks identify themselves at the beginning of a show or feature. Might be included in a SigningOffCatchPhrase, a certain phrase said at the end of every work/episode in a series. Compare and contrast NetworkSignOff, a TV channel or network with a set schedule stops broadcasting for the day.

SubTrope to StationIdent, an often EnforcedTrope in which stations and networks identify themselves at the beginning of a show or feature. Might be included in a SigningOffCatchPhrase, a certain phrase said at the end of every work/episode in a series.

* UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} announcers are known as ''hallåa'' in Swedish and still appear on camera on Creator/TV4.

** The May 2011 rerun of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E2TheHandOfFear "The Hand of Fear"]] includes an InMemorian made by the channel's continuity announcer that is dedicated to actress Creator/ElisabethSladen, who gives life to Sarah Jane Smith.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The 2017 version of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E6Shada "Shada"]] has a period-accurate one at the beginning of the serial, complete with the announcer apologising for [[UnderStatement broadcasting the story later than planned]].
-->"But first on BBC One, a little later than originally billed, we rejoin the TARDIS for another adventure in time and space with ''Doctor Who''".

SubTrope to StationIdent, an often EnforcedTrope in which stations and networks identify themselves at the beginning of a show or feature. Contrast SigningOffCatchPhrase, a certain phrase said at the end of every work/episode in a series.

SubTrope to StationIdent, an often EnforcedTrope in which stations and networks identify themselves at the beginning of a show or feature.

In most cases, this is the short announcement between programs that identifies the network. Closely related to [[StationIdent station identification]].

* ''WebVideo/ITVInTheFace'': In [[Recap/ITVInTheFaceS1E2ItsGlamUpNorth "It's Glam Up North"]], Matthew Harris reminds everyone that "ITV is brought to you by Granada".

!!Examples:

[[AC:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/DeadRingers '':
** 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.
* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': 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."''
* ''Series/VictoriaWoodAsSeenOnTV'': It spoofs the typical in-vision continuity announcer who still prevailed on UK TV at the time, played by Creator/SusieBlake.
-->"We would like to apologise to viewers in [[OopNorth the North]]. It must be awful for them."
* Similarly, an Irish satirical comedy series in the 1980s featured a parody of a 1960s in-vision female Telefís Éireann announcer, sending up the parochial style of Ireland in that era.

[[AC:Non-Fiction -- News]]

** For a very brief period in 2008, they experimented with an in-vision announcer on BBC Three, who had to compete with the pre-recorded links by the other voice of the station. In 2009, BBC Three then opened its continuity to User Generated Content -- sometimes this worked very well. The rest of the time, it was badly-compressed webcam footage of some teenager stumbling over the name of the following programme.

* On UsefulNotes/{{Ital|y}}ian television, announcers were exclusively female and referred to as ''signorine buonasera'', or "good-evening ladies". Many of them were just as well-known and loved as if they were famous actresses. RAI featured a single male announcer, from 2009 to 2010. RAI dropped announcers in 2016.

* UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} announcers are known as ''hallåa'' in Swedish and still appear on camera on [=TV4=].

* UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} announcers are known as ''hallåa'' in Swedish and still appear on camera on TV4.