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Thames Television
Thames Television was a franchise holder for a region of the British ITV television network serving London and surrounding area on weekdays from 30 July 1968 until the night of 31 December 1992. It continued as an independent production company until 2003.
Formed as a joint company, it merged the television interests of British Electric Traction (trading as Associated-Rediffusion) owning 49%, and Associated British Picture Corporation—soon taken over by EMI—owning 51%. It was both a broadcaster and a producer of television
daily on Thames News until the end of Thames Television's contract in December 1992. He read over 5,500 news bulletins in that time.
In the early 1980s he also regularly voiced the nightly United Press International Television News relay from London for television stations around the world.
Television entertainment.
He was one of very few broadcasters to work for both the Thames Television and London Weekend Television franchises at the same time. While reading "Thames News" on weekdays he was also an in-vision continuity announcer for London