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I have always been an early riser and this brings back memories of me switching the telly on before anyone else had got up. Early to mid 70s. I would sit there waiting for that "rubbish" music (as I would have thought of it then) to end and for something, anything to come on and entertain me! How did we survive without the Internet back then?
*1968-1972:* This is Dal Riata Television, broadcasting to the West of Scotland and the Hebrides from the Independent Television Authority's transmitters at Skriaig on Channel 10, Torosay on Channel 8, Bowmore on Channel 12 and Eitshal on Channel 13. *1972-1982:* This is Dal Riata Television, broadcasting a full color service to the West of Scotland and the Hebrides from transmitters of the Independent Broadcasting Authority at Cow Hill, Skriaig, Torosay, Bowmore, Eitshal, Clettraval and Carradale. *1982-1988:* This is Dal Riata Television, broadcasting from transmitters of Independent Broadcasting Authority serving the West of Scotland.
@@jemima216 Why do Americans do many things? Why was Donald Trump elected? Some things are beyond comprehension. But if you want an actual answer, saying such superfluous words softens the impact and doesn't give the impression that we're lecturing as if our views are the only acceptable ones, but rather sharing a personal thought or opinion instead.
What are all the tunes? I recognised "The Campbells Are Coming", "Bonnie Charlie", "Loch Lomond", "Bonnie Dundee", "Comin' Thro' the Rye", "Charlie is my Darling", but the two after that I can't quite place.
In order, Tha Campbells are Comin'; Bonnie Charlie; Loch Lomond; Bonnie Dundee; Coming Through the Rye; Charlie is My Darling; Caller Herring; A Hundred Pipers.
Welcome to STV, broadcasting from Cowcaddens in Glasgow. Right, that's everything good for the day over and done with. We start off today by fooling your kids into thinking that Dangerr Mouse is starting, but then the words of the song come on in that dead language, spoken by about three children who all speak English anyway. At lunchtime, we'll either be getting the word "heinous" on Crown Court, again, or Cyril Fletcher will be in the garden as you're getting the word "nonce". Early afternoon sees Glen Michael ignore my birthday, again, in another edition of Sorry, We've No More Casper the Friendly Ghost Cartoons. Then it's a 77th repeat of some atrocity like Highway to Heaven or Quincy, while the English are watching a 4-4 draw between Manchester United and Liverpool. We can't show it due to a wee jobby citing Article 37b. He thinks that it'll lower the number of people at Albion Rovers the day before. They haven't even got a wall behind the goal there, and still nobody will watch them! But don't worry, you'll be able to see all those goals on Scotsport, presented by Sir Arthur and his shameless alcoholic liar sidekick Ian Archer. After you've sat through half an hour of a goalless draw between Saint Murn and Hibz from yesterday. Then the adverts. Then Captain Cappielow comes back on and say,s "Coming up, an eight-goal thriller from Old Trafford where Champions Liverpool were the visitors... but first, twenty minutes of Ladies Curling from the Coaster's Arena in Falkirk." Then that GRASS, Bill Knox, who wants to know where all those bricks went from the new private Barratt houses up by the big roundabout. Tell him nothing. If you've not swallowed two-hundred paracetamol with a litre of vodka by half-seven, it's Thingummyjig! Yes, the Laird of Cowcaddens is back with the stereotypical dancing dross that would've had everyone flee the country even if the shipyards, the coal mines and the steelworks hadn't all shut down. There's fun and games at 10:30 with Three-Bar Fire in the Bath, after you see Johnny Beattie and Andy Cameron on the screen. Finally, to round us off, either the Rev Misery Knox or Fr Sean McCandles will round the day off in Late Call before Bryce Curdy gawps at you from behind his really stupid name as he tells you all what we'll be getting away with tomorrow on a TV franchise with no other bidders because anyone decent who's Scottish is in England as quickly as John Toye is at the bar when the pub opens.
Tony Currie is Scottish and has worked in Scottish broadcasting for 50 years! He is currently a continuity announcer on BBC tv Scotland. From Wiki "Tony Currie (born 1951) is a Scottish broadcaster who currently works as a continuity announcer for BBC Scotland. He began working in radio at KPFK Radio in Los Angeles in 1972 before joining Scotland's first independent local radio station, Radio Clyde, a year later as the first voice on air. In April 1976, he joined Scottish Television as a continuity announcer, after freelancing at the station as a trail voiceover. He became chief announcer, reading news round-ups within the nightly regional news programme, Scotland Today. After leaving Scottish in January 1987, he became Controller of Programmes for the Cable Authority and latterly, cable programming controller for the Independent Television Commission. After a spell as chief executive of AsiaVision, he set up the Irish satellite television station Tara Television as director of programmes before becoming chairman and chief executive of Cambridge Cafe Radio. Currie is a television continuity announcer and transmission director for BBC Scotland television, and has occasionally presented and produced an overnight strand, Nightshift. As a continuity announcer, he was the first person to broadcast from the Corporation's new headquarters at Pacific Quay, Glasgow. He is also the managing director of an internet radio station, Radio Six International, presenting various weekly shows including The Tony Currie Show, The Lively Lounge and The Recur Records Show."
He is talking as the majority of Scots talk. We don't all go about saying och aye and hoots mon! as depicted in the media (usually by an Englishman! Does Sean Connery have an English accent? I think you may be confusing regional dialect with accent in which case there are different inflections for different parts of the country. It is said the people of Inverness speak the best English in the UK!
That's still an English received pronounciation accent he's using there. Plenty of Scots broadcasters use a Scots accent - Kirsty Wark, Ross King, Lorraine Kelly etc
He's doing an English RP accent in this video too - you can hear a couple of bits of Scots poke through the speech training now and then: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-04nDvrVnRdE.html but that was for a London based radio station so fair enough. Why is he doing the same thing on STV?
