Granada adverts & News Flash part announcer Charles Foster 23rd November 1985 4 of 4

[@daros194]

Very rare, thanks for posting. I can't ever recall Granada announcers doing ITN Newsflashes before or since!

[@ADCTVCollection]

You're welcome!

[@NeilMiles]

Nice find - never seen that newsflash slide before

[@ADCTVCollection]

Thanks, I've never seen it before either, it's amazing what new stuff is still turning up.

[@madmantronixx7998]

Not sure if it was just me but Newsflashes scared the life out of me as a kid!

[@davidmartin6116]

There was a time when most ITV stations closed down shortly after midnight, of course. ITN was not crewed sufficiently to be able to present any late night newsflashes until the start of ITV's 24-hour service which included through-the-night bulletins from ITN. I can recall the odd late-night newsflash on Central read by the duty announcer so there is likely to have been a late duty editor at ITN who could offer a script to the regions if a major story broke. In 1987, on the night of the Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster, Mike Prince read a script over a similar slide at closedown and some recorded footage from the scene was included. The source of the film in this clip could have been Granada feeding a mini-network (10pm Saturday) as it wasn’t being screened by LWT - so other regions may well have taken the same newsflash at the end of the film at 12.10am.

[@NeilMiles]

I have a late night newsflash from earlier in 1985, read by Colin Baker but presented from the continuity studio at LWT, presumably as the crew at ITN had knocked off for the night kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXazoGWIlpZ-kNk

[@CaptainSiCo]

Interesting that the ITN newsflash was read by the Granada duty announcer and not by ITN itself. Not sure if the film was local or being networked by Granada - if the latter, is it possible Charles’s voice was heard nationwide? I can’t imagine ITN sending a script to 14 companies rather than just reading a newsflash themselves?

[@importedvixen]

Charles is one of the best voices ever👌🏻