John Crosse (born c. 1939) is a British former radio DJ, presenter and continuity announcer, known for being one of the voices of the Yorkshire Television region of Independent Television for nearly 30 years.

Career

Crosse began his broadcasting career on pirate station Radio London in the 1960s, (where, he used the pseudonym John Sedd). He then moved to work for sales company Radiovision, which sold airtime for a couple of pirate radio stations. Later, he read the news on

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, and then joined Southern Television for a short stint as

continuity announcer In broadcasting, continuity or presentation (or station break in the U.S. and Canada) is announcements, messages and graphics played by the broadcaster between specific programmes. It typically includes programme schedules, announcement of the ...

for the channel. In the early 1970s, he joined

Yorkshire Television ITV Yorkshire, previously known as Yorkshire Television and commonly referred to as just YTV, is the British television service provided by ITV Broadcasting Limited for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV (TV network), ITV network. Until 19 ...

where he was noted for his authoritative RP accent, shared by a number of his colleagues at YTV, such as

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; the company's presentation was much more similar to BBC Television (out-of-vision announcers with RP accents) than that of other

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companies at the same time, some of which used friendlier in-vision announcers. Along with the rest of the announcing team at YTV, Crosse also voiced trailers produced by the company's promotions department for the ITV network, and from 1996 to 1998, he was also heard announcing for

Tyne Tees Television ITV Tyne Tees, previously known as Tyne Tees, Channel 3 North East and Tyne Tees Television, is the ITV television franchise for North East England and parts of North Yorkshire. Tyne Tees launched on 15 January 1959 from studios at a converte ...

. He also narrated the second series of the long-running schools history drama '' How We Used to Live''. He worked on Yorkshire TV until he retired in November 1998. He now resides in the United States.Radio London - Who found whom?
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References

External links

- Various continuity announcements made by John Crosse on YTV. Radio and television announcers 1939 births Living people Yorkshire Television {{UK-tv-bio-stub