I actually watched this live when it happened; I suspect the bosses at Granada were not too happy at Phil Sayer's "glasses gag" as he departed shortly afterwards!
I like Phil Sayer, quite a nice personality on TV and radio. He was also on BBC Radio Manchester and BBC GMR as well as car review programmes on Granada Men And Motors.
He also announced on BBC1 North West and read the local news, He did pre-recorded announcements for British Rail in the London area and the London Underground. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UlWZnKCHfNI.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dk5TurbaCJY.html
Phil’s colleague Graham James voices the promo prior to closedown. My main knowledge of Phil was the many years he’d inform us about the trains. I’m not a big fan of the current voices. RIP Phil.
Yes the very man himself, he did not stay with Granada for long before moving to BBC North West, clip of him on BBC1 North West ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dk5TurbaCJY.html
Unfortunately I have a few that just like going through and disliking videos, I think if they don't like the videos why bother watching them, so they are just wasting their time clicking through.
